LiLO, from Lost in Lima Ohio has a great post about tips for parents about MySpace. Go read it now.
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Teacher due in court still using MySpace site:
A teacher from Rialto High School in San Bernadino, California is still using his MySpace to communicate with students even though he’s facing criminal charges. 31-year-old Matthew Cepican was found with a 16-year-old student from Rialto High in his car in what the article describes as a remote area. He’s been charged with suspicion of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a minor. Age of consent in California is 18.
Meanwhile, Cepican has continued to post on MySpace.com, a popular online networking site, and former and current students have sent him messages of support.
On March 3, an 18-year-old man from Rialto who said he didn’t care what was said about his teacher posted this message: “sup mr.C & you still the downest teacher i had & .”
High school students said that Cepican was popular, laid back, young and hip and that they could use slang with him.
In a blog dated March 20, Cepican wrote, “I miss you all more than I can say. You got me through the toughest years of my life and owe all my dreams and success to you.
“My greatest reward ain’t some stupid recognition from my peers. My greatest reward is your love and respect. I will never forget you … .”
Thank God he’s not the English teacher.
Because we were you know…
Students arrested for creating fake myspace page:
Two more teens have been arrested for cyberstalking, this time in Louisiana. 17-year old Kerry Garland and 18-year old Jerett Crumbley created fake MySpaces of their principal and assistant principal.
Investigators say the two created the fake pages which allowed for inappropriate images and messages. Authorities say the cyber-stalking charges applies because the victims were being harrassed and had no control of what was being posted.
Students charged with cyber stalking:
We have another MySpace related story that happened in my back yard. Two students from Mooresville High School in North Carolina were arrested for misdemeanor cyberstalking after creating fake MySpaces of their assistant principals.
They portrayed one of the administrators as a pedophile, police said. They also used racist words.
Police were able to trace the MySpaces back to the suspects.
Remember kids, nothing is private on the internet.
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Jessica brings us more malcontents from the Bluegrass State. This time it’s 18-year-old Charles Jeremy Brown from Belfry, Kentucky. He was arrested on charges of 27 counts of menacing, eight counts of criminal mischief and one count of criminal littering. Police found the evideence of his crimes posted on YouTube. In the 3 pages of videos one can find Mr. Brown breaking church windows, vandalizing grocery stores and menacing drive-through restaurant workers. Thanks to Jessica we have not one but two MySpaces for him.
So, in honor of having the most well documented crime spree ever you Charles Jeremy Brown have been awarded the Red Forman Dumbass Award.
Red’s foot would menace your ass.
Sphere: Related ContentTeen allegedly sought sex on MySpace:
18-year-old Billy Craven of Radcliff, Kentucky was arrested for asking a 15-year-old girl to hook-up for sex. He’s been charged with three counts of unlawful use of electronic equipment means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or prohibited activities, which is a felony. Kentucky’s age of consent is 16.
I found a MySpace for Craven but it was bare bones.
Sphere: Related ContentMan Arrested For Nude Pics Of Girls On MySpace:
Another creep arrested for MySpace mis deeds. This the the subject in question is one Kevin Dale Pierce from the City of Angels. The 33-year-old Pierce was arrested for convincing teenage girls to send him nude pictures of themselves. Several external hard drives were found when police searched his house. How many girls did he contact top have that many hard drives? Pierce claimed to be a 19-year-old art student from UCLA.
The investigation started in January, when a Temecula resident reported that her 14-year-old daughter was swapping notes with someone who claimed to be a 19-year-old art student at UCLA, DeLuna said.
The two started an online relationship last November and, after several weeks, established a bond of trust, according to the sergeant. The suspect persuaded the girl to send photos of herself in various stages of undress, purportedly for an art project, DeLuna said.
The girl’s mother noticed her daughter’s computer screen and read messages from the suspect asking for additional pictures in varied poses, DeLuna said.
The woman told a deputy that the e-mail she spotted was from someone who called himself “kev pie” and thanked the girl for pictures she had sent him, according to an affidavit for a search warrant.
The e-mailer then requested that the girl send some more snapshots and wrote, “Is there any way you can also take the exact same angles, straight from behind and from the 45 degree side … but on the floor instead of standing? so I can draw the legs and the body bent in shape,” the affidavit states.
The mother did not know what the e-mail referred to and asked her daughter about it.
The girl later told investigators that she informed the person she was corresponding with that she was 14 years old. She told detectives that she and the suspect began chatting on “I Chat” after meeting on MySpace.com, according to the affidavit.
Investigators tracked down Pierce’s ISP address, accessed his MySpace account and determined he was actually 33 and that he had been communicating with at least 10 other girls, persuading them to send nude photos of themselves, police allege.
The best part is Pierce’s explaination.
“He seemed pretty eager to try to clear his name,” DeLuna said, adding that Pierce told them he did not believe he was breaking the law as long as he did not meet the girls in person.
I would love to have seen the cops’ faces when he told them that.
I could not find a definitive MySpace for Pierce.
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MySpace sues ‘Spam King’ over fake profiles:
MySpace has launched a lawsuit of their own. It’s aimed at one of the lowest forms of humanity around. A spammer. MySpace is suing the so-called “Spam King”, Sanford Wallace, alleging he made over 11,000 fake profiles which would direct people to other less reputable sites.
So you mean Jenny won’t chat with me over MSN and doesn’t think I’m hot?
I hope MySpace bankrupts him.
Sphere: Related ContentMySpace profiles mock St. Hugo:
The students of St. Hugo’s have struck back. In wake of St. Hugo’s recent policy of having their students banned from MySpace even at home, the students have posted not one but two fake MySpaces for St. Hugo’s.
School officials were not amused to find the bogus Web pages that ridiculed the school’s MySpace policy and characterized its principal, Sister Margaret Van Velzen, as a “nosy busybody” who hits students “across the knuckles with a heavy ruler.”
After the school staff member e-mailed MySpace, the pages were taken down. School officials said the prank illustrates just how irresponsible MySpace pages can be.
As someone who survived a Catholic education I am mildly amused at the antics of the St. Hugo’s students. However I do have a word of advice for them regarding their principal.
Continue reading ‘St. Hugo's students create fakes’
Police: Boys made threats:
Another school, another state, another threat on MySpace. This time it was to eight graders, ages 13 and 16, from Prairieville Middle School in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area. The threats were targeted at a number of girls at the school. The 13-year-old was arrested and charged with simple battery, simple assault and family in need of supervision. The 16-year-old was charged with indecent behavior, two counts of simple battery, and family in need of supervision. Why indecent behavior?
When asked about the 16-year-old’s indecent behavior count, Chief Deputy Tony Bacala said it grew out of the wording of one of the threats and it had to do with “inappropriate contact.”
It’s pretty sad when you can drive yourself to middle school.
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