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1995-03-03
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Pedophiles
"Would you like to chat in private?" Read the electronic message sent from
"thieves",a 51-year-old life insurace salesman, to "Marty" was coy, but he
agreed,and over the next two months,he and "Thives" traded E-mail and
sex on San Jose computer bulletin board system,(BBS). "Thieves" told "Marty"
he'd like to meet someday for real-life encounters. When "Thieves" showed up,
he was arrested by "Marty",who was really Jim McMahon,a high-tech crimes
detective with the San Jose Police Department. The police report says he
found a vibrator,sexual lubricant and condoms in the car of the arrested man,
Donell Howard Hughes."
"LURING PREY". Pedophiles are a tiny fraction of users on the nation's
more than 50,000 BBSs. But police nationwide are concerned about sexual
predators using modems to lure their prey. "BBSs are the new playgrounds,and
the number of kids online who fit a pedophile's victim profile is very high,"
says Alfred Olsen,a Pennsylvania police chief and cybergumshoe,who has helped
police across the country with more than 100 investigations of online
pedophiles."
"Authorities statistics on online pedophiles activity are scarce,but
anecdotal evidence is growing. In March,a Chelmsford,Mass.,man named John Rex
Jr. 24,was charged with using a BBS to persuade a teenager to help him kidnap
a "6-to-9-year-old blond boy" for sex."
-bugsy