Pedophiles Find New Way Of Targeting Children

Are your children safe? Internet sexual predators seem to be everywhere, and preying on your kids. Now there is a twist… A new way to lore them in.

While the Internet chat rooms remain a breeding ground, new video games such as X-Box Live seems to be providing a new playground for pedophiles. With X-Box, users can play games, and through a home Internet connection also communicate live with other players through headsets and instant messages.

According to Team X-Box, The FBI has investigated cases where sexual predators have used game systems such as Xbox 360 to target children.

“A pedophile is talking to a child, they are gaining their trust and understanding, and then tries to engage in that next level, which is taking them from the cyber world to the physical world,” said Douglas Roden, an FBI forensic examiner.

Several cases across the country have initiated with a pedophile meeting their victim through an on-line gaming system.

There are ways to protect your children from these Internet and gaming based predators. Most experts say the best way is to simply talk to your children about Internet safety and predators, then to carefully monitor their on-line activities for the warning signs:

LARGE AMOUNTS OF TIME ON-LINE: Most kids that are victims of sexual predators spend large amounts of time on-line, particularly in chat rooms.

PRESENCE OF PORNOGRAPHY: Pornography is often used in the sexual victimization of children. Sex offenders often supply their potential victims with pornography as a means of opening sexual discussions and for seduction. Child pornography may be used to show the child victim that sex between children and adults is "normal." Parents should be conscious of the fact that a child may hide the pornographic files on diskettes from them. This may be especially true if other family members use the computer.

UNRECOGNIZED TELEPHONE CALLS: While talking to a child victim on-line is a thrill for a computer-sex offender, it can be very cumbersome. Most want to talk to the children on the telephone. They often engage in "phone sex" with the children and often seek to set up an actual meeting for real sex.

CHILD TURNS OFF SCREEN WHEN YOU ENTER THE ROOM: A child looking at pornographic images or having sexually explicit conversations does not want you to see it on the screen.

YOUR CHILD BECOMES WIDTHDRAWN FROM THE FAMILY: Computer-sex offenders will work very hard at driving a wedge between a child and their family or at exploiting their relationship. They will accentuate any minor problems at home that the child might have. Children may also become withdrawn after sexual victimization

.A Full list of prevention tips is available on the FBI’s website at http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm

X-Box Live is not the only gaming system that may lore your child into the web of a predator. Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 also contain some online capabilities.

'I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE'

Cross posted from www.absolutezerounited. blogspot.com

Brandon Low AKA Sanepenguin works as a Software Development Engineer for a web-based company

"I am a well respected engineer with my company."

Brandon also happens to be a member of GirlChat and a proud pedophile

"I am a pedophile. In the sense that I can feel sexually atracted to prepubesecent children. Judge this as you choose."

"2) I have spent half the day posting as "lostlogic" on Dr. Phil's boards. That name is _CLEARLY_ linked to my real self, and I have linked my website on that site while stating that I am a pedophile
3) MY name is Brandon Low."

Brandon, like most of the posters at GirlChat, has trouble understanding what's wrong with adults and children having sexual relationships and talks about encrypting child pornography...

"what is wrong about an adult having a romantic loving relationship with a child? Please elaborate on this point."

"Why should collections of child porn be destroyed? I see no reason for this as long as the holder is careful and maintains extremely high standards of encryption etc. "

And here he sounds a lot like Lindsay Ashfords "even babies can consent to sex" argument

"An infant may not be able to debate topics such as this due to a lack of experience and knowledge, however once a child has learned the basic faculty of language, they CAN make decisions about what feels wrong and what feels right. For that matter a child's decisions about this will tend to be much more 'correct' when you get right down to it than an adults, because their decisions are not biased by years of being told what is right and wrong and told how to feel by society and the media. This is the point that I've been trying to make in my posts... that children KNOW what they want and KNOW what feels right."

I suppose Brandon probably doesn't have to worry about hiding anything, at least not financially; You see, the online web-based company that employs him is none other than Amazon.com, as in pedophile-books-for-sale-amazon.com.

We last highlighted Amazon's sale of books promoting pedophilia back in February 2007; Where Amazon was (and still does) sell the book of pedophile activist, Viamund the Rake, next to other pro-pedophile books such as "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers" or "Daddy's Little Boy," titles that you'd expect to find advertised in a NAMBLA Bulletin, rather than on a website which also markets books for children.

We weren't the first to pick up on Amazons sale of books promoting child abuse, you can read more about that here. And more recently Concerned Women for America has caused a stir regarding Amazons planned sale of the DVD "Hounddog," a movie which features scenes where a child is raped.

What's also interesting to note, is the case of Michael Williams, who was convicted in a Florida federal court for promoting child pornography on the Internet.

As part of a 2004 sting operation, an undercover Secret Service agent (using the screen name "Lisa--n--Miami") communicated with Williams in an Internet chat room. Williams allegedly wrote, "Dad of toddler has 'good' pics of her an (sic) me for swap of your toddler pics, or live cam." He posted nonpornographic photos of a young girl and claimed he had "hc," or hard-core, kiddie pictures, prosecutors contend.

A coalition of free speech and commercial interests were supporting Williams' constitutional claims, including the Free Speech Coalition, online media retailer Amazon.com and National Coalition Against Censorship.

Frighteningly, in Amazon.com's zeal to support Williams, they went so far as to ask the court "to overturn the law, saying it would restrict protected speech and allow for prosecution even if actual child pornography did not exist."

But Scalia methodically dismissed each of the hypotheticals raised by challengers and the appeals court, including whether movies that purported to show underage sex -- or even advertisements for such movies -- would violate the law. "We think it implausible that a reputable distributor of Hollywood movies, such as Amazon.com, believes that one of these films contains actual children engaging in actual or simulated sex on camera; and even more implausible that Amazon.com would intend to make its customers believe such a thing," he wrote.

What exactly is Amazon.com's vested interest in child pornography? Why are they so concerned about their right to distribute it?

You can contact Amazon.com with concerns about their employment of a proud pedophile, the sale of books promoting child abuse, and their position on child pornography through the following channels:

aws@amazon.com
webservicesresumes@amazon.com
webservices@amazon.com
seller-performance@amazon.com
seller-suggestions@amazon.com
payments-funds@amazon.com
evangelists@amazon.com
ir@amazon.com

jeff@amazon.com	- Jeffrey P. Bezos, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
werner@allthingsdistributed.com	- Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com
ajassy@amazon.com	- Andrew Jassy, Senior Vice President, Web Services
stevenk@amazon.com	- Steven Kessell, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Media
marco@amazon.com	- Marc Onetto, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations
diegop@amazon.com	- Diego Piacentini, Senior Vice President, International Retail
shelleyr@amazon.com	- Shelley Reynolds, Vice President, Wordwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
jwilke@amazon.com or jeffreyw@amazon.com or jeffw@amazon.com	- Jeff Wilke, Senior Vice President, North America Retail
michellew@amazon.com	- Michelle Wilson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
swheeler@amazon.com	- Sam Wheeler, Director, Advertising & Partnerships
bcarr@amazon.com	- Bill Carr, Vice President, Digital Media
jvaria@amazon.com	- Jinesh Varia, Web Services Evangelist
cbodell@yahoo.com	- Colin Bodell, Vice President, Platform Operations of Amazon.com
awseditor@amazon.com	- Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist
jeff@vertexdev.com or jbarr@amazon.com	- Jeff Barr, Lead Web Services Evangelist
simoneb@amazon.lu or simone.brunozzi@gmail.com	- Simone Brunozzi, European Web Services Evangelist

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=518316&type=email&skip=true#csTop
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-InfoReq
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/reports/contact-us
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/contactus?subject=Customer+Support

Or by Mail:

Jeff Bezos
1200 12th Ave. South, Ste. 1200
Seattle, Wash. 98144
or call 206-266-1000

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To read more about Brandon Low AKA Sanepenguin, visit Wikisposure.

jacey posted at 3:41 PM

Warning over kids' holiday photos on internet

EXPERTS ARE warning parents not to put holiday snaps of their children online because they could end up in a child porn collection.

NetSafe spokesperson Lee Chisholm says authorities have found holiday photographs of children, pulled off the internet, in collections of child abuse images.

And Auckland psychologist Nathan Gaunt, an expert in online sex abuse and pornography, says some men who view child abuse images are actively trawling the internet for "child-next-door images".

"There has definitely been huge interest in `normal' images of children," Gault says. "There are people out there who do have an interest in school websites, or holiday snaps. These pictures are very real to people, so of course people who have a sexual interest in images of children find that quite interesting," he says.

He says some men will conjure up fantasies around a picture of a child, while others will find a text-based story on the internet, then go looking for a picture to match: "say, a red-headed eight-year-old".

Others, who have collections of images of a particular child being abused, will search for lookalike children on the internet to add to the fantasy.

New Law Monitors Sex Offenders On-Line

The New Year brings tougher restrictions for Georgia’s sex offenders. All 16,000 of them will have to hand over their internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses starting tomorrow. The new law is a big hit with some.

Michelle Rogers: “I think its great to protect young people. I work with high school and middle school students all the time and I know the internet is kind of their world a lot of times and anything that we can do to further their safety online I think is a good thing.”

Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track internet addresses of sex offenders. But the state is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16-thousand offenders to turn in their passwords as well.

Police arrest man again for seeking sex with a child

Lock em up and throw away the key!

A South Lebanon man previously convicted for soliciting a minor on the Internet was arrested this week on the same charge.

Police arrested Christopher J. Sefakis, 41, Tuesday, Dec. 23, at his home. Police said Sefakis was trying to solicit sex online from what he believed was a 15-year old boy. It was actually a police officer.

Sefakis was arrested on Dec. 27, 2007, for the same crime.

Sexual predator faces life sentence thanks to "brave girl"

A 50-year-old Bristol man who was convicted earlier this month on three counts of using his computer to sexually exploit children, is facing a sentence of life in prison.

John E, Hargrove, under the screen names "sun warrior48" and "master_4younger_f_slave," used instant messaging from his computer to lure four different minor females into chats in late 2006 and early 2007, according to documents revealed in U.S. District Court.

Evidence revealed in the three-day trial that ended Oct. 3 showed that Hargrove approached the victims after viewing their profile pages on MySpace. Of the four girls, two were actual teenage females and two were undercover law enforcement officers.

Evidence was presented at trial that Hargrove used the Internet to transfer images of child pornography. The photos were of a teen with whom he had an online relationship. The 15-year-old testified at the trial.

"In this case, a very brave girl took the stand to testify against the defendant and proved that victims will stand up for themselves and their rights," said Sharon L. Potter, U.S. attorney for the district, who oversaw the prosecution.

Child Pornography is Going Mainstream

What you can do to stop this from happening in your community

Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Carolina is calling all citizens to take action to stop the distribution of Hounddog, a film depicting child rape. CWA of North Carolina created the "No More Child Porn" campaign in July after learning that the North Carolina Department of Commerce gave $387,000 in taxpayer money to producers to shoot the film in North Carolina. This is not an issue exclusive to North Carolina; this movie will debut in theaters nationwide on September 19.

Go here for more info.

Help Pass Senate Bill 1738—The PROTECT Our Children Act

Hundreds of thousands of children are victims of sexual abuse each year. Due to the sheer lack of resources, law enforcement is unable to follow up on the majority of leads they have.

The PROTECT Our Children Act will:

* Authorize over $320 million over the next five years in desperately needed funding for law enforcement to investigate child exploitation.
* Mandate that child rescue be a top priority for law enforcement receiving federal funding.
* Allocate funds for high-tech computer software that can track down Internet predators.

Act Now!Your U.S. senators will be voting on the bill soon, so it is crucial you contact them immediately.Go to www.senate.gov to find contact information for the senators in your state. Search for your senator by name or state by clicking on the arrow from either dropdown menu. Contact information is provided here. To send an e-mail, click on "Web Form" below his or her name, and e-mail your letter to make a difference!

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20080911_tows_predators

More Internet service providers block child porn

With the click of a mouse and touch a keyboard, you can go anywhere in the World Wide Web. That’s a frightening thought for most parents.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants to help. The father of two is on a mission to get every Internet provider in the state to block child pornography.

Cuomo said, "It's one of those issues that everybody says it's terrible and we've got to do something about it. And years and years go by and we don't do enough."

In the last year and a half, 15 Internet providers in Central New York have agreed to block underage porn sites. But that's not enough. Cuomo says his office and these parents and teachers must also educate children about Internet safety.

Providers that have signed Attorney General's code of conduct:

• AOL
• ClarityConnect
• Clearwire
• Dreamscape/Northland
• Frontier/Citizens
• Earthlink
• Hughes Net
• Localnet
• NTC.net
• Time Warner
• United Online (NetZero, June & Bluelight}
• Verizon
• Westelcom Internet
• Wild Blue
• Windstream

Providers that have not signed Attorney General's Code of Conduct:

• Adams Cable Service
• Art Matrix- LightLink
• Express 56
• Orange County Online
• Spin Internet