Predators Among Us

Originally posted here by DodiaFae on June 3, 2009
Warning: Contains information and descriptions that are unsuitable for minors. Parents, please use discretion. While screenshots have been edited to hide the faces of children involved and to black out nudity, there is still some content on some of them that are inappropriate for minors.

MM All,

As many of you know from a previous post about Online Safety, I have a couple of IP trackers set up on PACA. One of the reasons for this is to keep track of how people find PACA and surf in.

This is how I became aware of a PACA member who was also a member of several predator sites and child pornography sites that had been set up on the Ning platform, and is what prompted me to start the Campaign Ning" group. The member went by the name of "Dagmar". (WARNING: Do not click that link when children can view the screen as there may be inappropriate content on her Ning page.)



She was banned from PACA at that time for breaking PACA rules, as well as Ning ToS. While I had suspicions about her at that time, I didn't have any proof that she was a predator... at least none that would convince anyone who doesn't know what to look for. That's why I didn't post this discussion a lot sooner. But she was a member of a large number of the sites that were clearly adult in content, openly viewable to anyone (even minors), and many of them contained graphic pornography on the main page, member pages, in the photo galleries and the video galleries. Ning has, as of the start of this year, decided to no longer host adult sites, so each of those sites was reported to them.

Then I came across "Mums for teens Advice". A description from the reports I sent to Ning and NCMEC about this site:

"It's very obviously set up to attract teen girls to give them "motherly advice", but none of the members seem to be teens, many of the members have nude or partially nude photos up, and there are adult male members as well. It looks to be a predator site. Even some of the profile pictures break Ning's "Adult Content" rules."

The site was fairly quickly shut down because of the content, and still has the "maintenance" page up.

I reported that one at the beginning of May. Now, if someone were just looking at the name of the site, it seems like a good thing, and they may join and forget that they've joined, and maybe never check the content. So I gave her the benefit of the doubt. After the whole PaganSpace thing, I was worried that many of our members wouldn't appreciate a heads-up based just on suspicion and this one site. But I have been keeping an eye on her network list.

The next day, I came across a site called "Devil's Whore", of which she was a member, and on which she had just befriended a girl who didn't look a day over 14. She was friends with many of the minors on this site, some of whom had nude shots of themselves as their profile picture. Some of the kids on this site clearly broke Ning's ToS simply by being members, as they don't allow any members under the age of 13. Nearly every child member had been befriended by multiple adult members, who either left sexually suggestive comments or photos on their pages. Many of those adults had pornographic profile pictures, so each comment they left added that to the child's page, as well. Just to give you an idea:



As I said in the warning at the top of the page, I've blacked out all nudity and hidden faces of children. The network photo was particularly graphic fetish. One of the profile pictures on the listing was a full-frontal shot of a little girl, about 5 years old, nude on a beach. The profile for this listing said that they were "an incest family from Germany". The one next to it was a penis shot, and there were many of those left on the pages of children on that network. I didn't see one comment anywhere saying how inappropriate all this was.

And yet, one could still argue she didn't look at the content, that maybe she's just into fettishism and slutdom. Hey, to each their own, so long as they're not hurting anyone else, right? Only children were most definitely harmed in the making of some of the content of that site.

The same day, I found the "Naughty Girls Forum" through her list.



That site contained many of the same minors and adults as the "Devil's Whore" site, and again she had children on her "friends" list on that network.

Both sites were reported to NCMEC. Both now show as "Page Not Found" and "This network has been taken offline by it's owner". (Ning has assured me that this does not mean that they weren't able to save all the evidence needed by LE to track the predators on the site.)

The next day I found 2 more sites through her list:

kissed a girl, which I reported to NCMEC, but unfortunately slipped through the cracks for a while... but I kept an eye on it. The name of the site, together with the URL, was a dead giveaway, and though I couldn't view anything but the main page, there were many of the same child profile pictures as on the other two sites.

Girl and Boys, which also had many of the same members and inappropriate profile pictures. (Note that the URL, when you click on it, is "privatefotos.ning.com".)

I resubmitted my report to NCMEC and to Ning for the "kissed a girl" site a week later, when I saw that many of the members of the networks that had already been closed down had started posting child pornography there. 11 people had joined the network within a day. It could have been due to the fact that I reported 2 more sites (which where quickly shut down) just the day before:

bludbox.ning.com contained some of the worst, most graphic images I've seen to date, including a photo of an adult man having intercourse with a little boy. I was pretty shaken after finding this particular site.

http://babygirls69.ning.com/ seemed to be mainly a GL (Girl Love) site, and had photos of preteen girls in "sexy poses" and exposing private body parts or nude.

Then yesterday I found three more, again through Dagmar's list. Two of these were even worse than the "bludbox" site, horrible, nightmare inducing content:

lilsissiboys... as you can see from the screenshot below, they even add a description of what the site is about that is completely unmistakable... "for lovers of little girly sissy boys".



And in case that one is too small to read, here's a screenshot of the header:



And their member badge is even worse:



It says, "I'm a member of lilsissyboys: post pics and vids of boys dressed like little sluts, Young gay and sissy boys" (note the capitalization of the "Y" in "Young", and also that Dagmar's picture shows up first in the list of members on the badge).

The second site I found yesterday was "lilgirlluv", and the site description was "For all you little girl lovers"



There was CP (Child Porn) right there on the Ning listing. And the member badge?



It says, "I'm a member of lilgirlluv: post pics and vids of little girl sluts and angels".

Both of those sites had images of young children being made to do things that many adults wouldn't do, sexually degrading things. Both sites contained very graphic pornography involving children.

Now, how anyone could join either of those two sites and not know what they are is unimaginable. To see them and not report them is unforgivable. Ning had both sites shut down within 10 minutes of me emailing them the reports. The fact that Dagmar was a member of both of these sites is what convinced me to post about it, as a warning to our members. Many of our members have her on their friends list, and I'm sure that they don't realize what kind of a person she is. Many of you are also members of other Ning sites she is on, and you may want to consider sending off a warning to the owners of those sites, particularly if there are minors on them.

Just to give you an idea of what we're up against, the "lilsissyboys" site had 297 members when I reported it and the "lilgirlluv" site had 249. Now anyone who has started a Ning site will have a fair idea of the length of time it takes to get membership up that high. This can only mean one of two things... either the sites had been there for some time, and no one has reported them, or that the predators on Ning are incredibly well organized. The fact that they seemed to bounce from one site as it was closing to another site to post their abuse leads me to believe that it's the latter.

The third site I found yesterday was "your space to talk", with the description "I JUST MADE THIS SITE TO ENTERTAIN PEOPLE TALK TO KIDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD!!WELL I HOPE YOU JOIN!!!!" Well, a lot of people did, and most of them were predators looking to hook up with kids. There were many people posting sexually suggestive and sexually graphic photos of children. Though I would have had to join the network to see just how bad it was, there was more than enough incriminating evidence to be found in the photo slideshow on the main page. It was also shut down within minutes of being reported to Ning and NCMEC.

And today, I found yet another one. When I started to type this post, and went to Dagmar's Ning page to copy the link, I noticed that she had befriended a young pre-teen girl who's profile photo was a full-frontal nude of herself. I followed that link to find that this girl had tons of teen and pre-teen "friends" with equally inappropriate photos, and was a member of "It's My Life [for girls]", which says it's "For all teenage and pre-teen girls!", but had many of the same adult predators I had seen on other CP networks, including this guy:



He really seems to like the GL sites (Girl Lover).

This site was much like the third site I found yesterday, and was shut down within minutes of being reported to Ning and NCMEC.

It seems that Ning has also gone through Dagmar's friends, as well as the friends of the pre-teen she had recently "friended", and cleaned up all the photos. Though I'm not sure if Ning or Dagmar removed Dagmar's photo... I'm glad I had it from her PACA profile before I banned her so that people could see that it was her.

I was going to post it in the Campaign Ning group, but decided that I'd like it to be seen by everyone, whether they're a member of that group or not. I will be linking it from there, but won't duplicate the information.

This discussion was particularly difficult for me to post, mainly because I had to go back and revisit all the information I had typed up to report those sites in the first place. But if anyone has any comments or questions, please feel free to post them or email me directly.

Blessings,

~ DodiaFae

The Consequences of Protecting Children Online

Posted by DodiaFae on December 11, 2008

As many of you are probably aware, some members of PACA were recently banned from another network due to our unwavering stance on child protection and the grooming practices we witnessed there. The PACA group on that site was then deleted.

Apparently there are those who seem to view child abuse as a moral issue that is changeable with each individual, in the same way that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I'd like to point out that it is a child safety issue. And child safety is a pretty clear-cut issue. Either it is safe for a child or it is not. Either you leave your toddler in a room with breakable glass, exposed outlets, and precariously balanced boxes of books, or you do not. Either you let your 15 year old daughter hitchhike to her friend's house across the state, or you do not. Either you allow your teen to meet with people they've met online, or you do not. Either you allow old men to flirt with your 15 year old daughter, or you do not. Any grays there? I don't think there are. It's all about the safety of the children, and what could harm them or kill them. And while many people would like to believe in their heart of hearts that we are greatly exaggerating the dangers posed to children, we most certainly are not.

What I find disturbing is that there are some members of that site who have been posting "discussions" to "explain" the events that unfolded. One has chosen to focus on one phrase, supposedly uttered by one of us who were banned that has absolutely nothing to do whatever with the events that transpired, as a means of attacking us further.

The issue here is not Witchcraft, not Wicca, not even Paganism. The issue here is child safety and the grooming practices used by those who would prey upon teens (children) who don't have enough worldly knowledge to know they're being groomed. The issue is the permissive attitude that the owners of some sites have about blatant grooming tactics used by predators in their effort to gain access to potential victims. There is no gray area in that. Either you want to protect the children who visit your site, or you don't give a shit. If you don't care enough to either do something about those adults, or keep children off your site all together, then don't complain when your motives are called into question.

Brightest Blessings,
~ DodiaFae

OPEN LETTER TO THOSE AGAINST THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY

The following was posted on an actual forum thread of which I was briefly part. It was in support of the FBI and the family Watchdog groups and all others who post links to the sex offender registries so parents and others can know if a sex offender lives around them. Most people applauded the registry and sites like this. Two women, however, and both with children condemned them. The following were the comments left by them, followed by my responses.

I am posting this here as an open letter to all who feel as these two women. I urge you to please consider my responses carefully, especially if you value your children. ~S~

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JANE DOE 1:

"Hello, just adding my 2 cents here, but I have to say, I completely dissagree with web site like that. I think that it give a false sense of security to know that the person down the street was convicted, SERVED his/her time & is now being asked to rejoin a sociaty that is completely unwilling to accept him/her. We all know that there are very bad people out there, some of them very close to/in our homes, so why not teach our children to had a sense of personal responibility and strength? Teach our babies to NOT be victims!
Please don't get me wrong, I work with Domestic & Sexual Violance Victims, I know that many sexual preditors will reoffend, btu I also know that if we only look at the guy down the street, we stop looking in our own living rooms, & we also make it harder for the offender to leave that life behind, & be a member of our sociaty as expected.
BB The Loving and often worried Mother of 2 beautiful Daughters"


MY REPLY:

Wow. How sad. For your daughters


JANE DOE 1:

" I'm not sure whats so sad for my daughters. They are very aware, and well adjusted girls, and they know how to take care of themselves! They also know that you can never judge a book by it's cover. And frankly, I think that a comment like "Wow, how sad for your daughters" is inflamitory! How judgmental!
I hope you have a peaceful day.
BB The loving Mother of very happy, safe & aware Daughters"


MY FINAL REPLY:

There is nothing inflammatory about that statement. Just an observation of how sad it is that your children have a mother who wants a child rapist living next door because it's the "christian thing to do" to forgive and forget. It is inflammatory to criticize and condemn parents who actually love their children and want to keep them safe.

It is sad that you condemn parents for wanting to know if child rapists and molesters live in their neighborhood.

It is sad that you condemn law enforcement for making sexual predators let their community know they are around.

It is sad that you think they can be rehabilitated when those of us who are actually in this field know first hand they cannot.

In order to be rehabilitated, they must first acknowledge that what they do is wrong. They consider themselves lovers of children and don't believe for a moment what they do is wrong. This is a fact. Not a crucifixion of the poor woe-is-me pervert who is constantly looking for his or her next victim. Most of us who have common sense know why a sexual predator would want to live next to a school or playground.

Oh, they may whine and cry to the cameras that they are sorry but it is all an act. See, they have a code. They have web sites and How-To books that guide them on how to behave in the public eye not only to gain access to children but also to get bleeding hearts to feel sorry for them and accept them back into society. Crying for the camera about how they just want to live a fruitful life and get better is a famous act of theirs.

They cannot and do not get rehabilitated.

Even chemical castration doesn't work. There have been subjects of this procedure who have been arrested and have admitted to raping with dildos, fingers, bottles, spoons, broom handles since they couldn't use their dicks.

Yes, it is sad that any child would have a parent who would rather give repeat offender child rapists access to their kids than to arm themselves with the knowledge that there is one in their area. It is appalling that a parent would rather not know to protect her delicate sensibilities and flippantly say, "Oh, my kids will be safe because they're smart." Do you realize how many SMART women and children are raped every day in this country? Smart has nothing to do with being the victim of rape. Especially for a child who can be easily overpowered by an adult.

Yes, it is sad that a parent would condemn law enforcement for offering websites to parents who love their children enough to not turn a blind eye to the dangerous world around them and want to keep them safe.

It is frustrating and disheartening for those of us who fight for the right to know when child rapists move into our neighborhoods to not only have to deal with the perverts who want to scope out our children, but to deal with bleeding hearts who refuse to face the facts and choose to give rights to the perverts over the children. Fortunately, though, there are more of us than the bleeding hearts. Someone needs to keep the kids safe, even if those parents won't.

I am terrified for your daughters. I really, honestly am. You think children should be able to just protect themselves? Gods.

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JANE DOE #2:

"This is a very good tool to help keep people informed, however I just want to add something that I don't think some people think of.....Did you know that some of these men are actually innocent of the crime they were "convicted" of but because of the courts long standing conviction rate of men when it comes to "he said , she said" they are convicted, sent to prison and when they get out still have to keep paying their dues to socieity for a crime they didn't commit? Right now if a woman says some man assulted her, the man is arrested and put in jail until he is proven innocent. And when people find out that there is a "convicted" offender for any crime living "down the street" they become like the Christians when they find out that there is a person who doesn't believe in their God living next to them. .....they are automatically devil worshipers who are going to come murder them in their sleep and take their children and cut them up to sacrafice to their demons. Sorry, it just burns me up when after someone has paid the dues that the court had put on them for a crime , they are still having new things added on long after they are released. Yes, there are some offenders that do go and repeat crimes, but the number is extremly small when you consider how many people who have served their time don't! Anyway, I just wanted to add my comment , I know most won't agree or even understand what I am saying, but , it is just my opinion and I do hope that by adding it I didn't offend anyone."


MY ONE AND FINAL REPLY:

I understand completely your worry in this. Unfortunately, there are people convicted of crimes who are innocent. I feel for them and I would never want to see an innocent person suffer for being labeled for a crime they didn't commit.

When it comes to sex crimes against children, however, and even rapes of adults, there are so many required procedures law enforcement and the DA must go through to even bring the charges because those are very serious allegations and the law knows what could happen if the court finds the person guilty. There are rape kits, DNA tests, witness interviews, interviews with the victim that are quite exhaustive and deeply personal, very detailed.

Don't forget that in this country, the victim is always treated as a liar by the defense team and is presented in court as such. Every single indiscretion by the victim, even those of an innocent child, are aired in court by the defense to get their client off as either completely innocent or as having been lured into the encounter by a willing participant - even in the cases of child rape this is done, and judges have dropped charges against child rapists who claim they were seduced by the child. There is a well documented case of a judge who called a 6 year old rape victim a "teasing little slut" who got what she asked for and let the man go.

Out of 1,000 convicted child sex offenders, I can guarantee you MAYBE 1 is actually innocent. Personally, I want to protect my child from the 999 offenders and hope that the 1 innocent man will behave as an innocent man, thereby, causing him no trouble.

Sites like this help parents by arming them with the knowledge of convicted offenders in their vicinity. So often there have been cases of teachers and coaches and girl/boy scout leaders raping, molesting, even murdering victims and afterwards the community screaming, "Why weren't we told about his record of child abuse? If we had only known, we wouldn't have put him near our children!"

These sites run by law enforcement and the law requiring these people to be registered are very good, positive things that are very much needed in our society. If they had this system in place when I was a child, almost every man in our neighborhood would have been registered and every single friend and I would never have been hurt by their ring. Our parents would leave us at their homes to babysit because these men were "pillars of the community" and never laid a finger on their own children/grandchildren. They had everyone fooled except for the kids they hurt, even to the point we were called liars and bad children for finally accusing them.

Let me ask you this: Would you rather know that your neighbor was a child rapist by this registry, or find out after he rapes a child? Is it better to protect that one man out of 1,000 guilty men or the children who are potential victims of the 999?

I understand your points and I very much agree that I would never want to see an innocent person persecuted for such a heinous offense. It is just so rare a thing, though, and acceptable to me that one innocent man must fight false charges rather than my child or any other suffer rape and molestation and the ramifications that last a lifetime.

BACA BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE

These guys are just AMAZING! These bikers get into groups and go to homes of child abuse victims to show support to them and also to let their abuser know the child is being looked out for by them. They are just truly amazing! The first video is a short ad. The second is a bit longer and explains what BACA is about. They show what they do, too, and it is just AWESOME!

~S~

CHILD PORN - SO THEY THINK IT'S ART

This is the mentality behind Child Porn and those who argue for it - saying it is merely art and should be protected by Freedom of Speech. And this is also why they will NEVER win that psychotic argument! ~S~

*FULL CREDIT GOES TO ABSOLUTE ZERO UNITED*
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Friday, May 02, 2008
That Happy Place

There's a filthy pedophile going by the nickname Zlurker. He's one of the worst of the worst. He's an abusive husband and father.........and he's addicted to pictures of little girls. He fantasizes about having sex with little girls. He can't stop talking about his desire for little girls.

"My main LG fantasies though are 'D', 'E' and 'G'. I really like 'G' when it involves removing her diaper first"

"When your AOA dips into the nepi range, changing diapers is not such a miserable chore as it might otherwise seem"

"I do not think we need to feel bad about giving in to the charms of beautiful girls. If we do not, then someone else will anyway"

"I regularly fantasize about the daughters of my neighbors, friends, cousins and co-workers. If I had nieces in my AOA I am sure I would fantasize about them as well"

"Knowing how and when to make eye contact with the parents accompanying the LG is a skill at which I have become quite proficient"


We could mention that it was reported in Relapse prevention with Sex Offenders


"the longer sexual fantasies are maintained and elaborated on, the greater the chance that the behavior will be acted out in real life"

"the more individuals engage in fantasy, the more motivating and more detailed the rehearsal may become, and the more able the individuals are to convince themselves to act out the behaviour in real life"


Zlurker is quite concerned about AZ sharing the search terms that child porn seekers who visit us use. It apparently worries him a lot. That's how filthy pedophiles are, they worry about the wrong things. Instead of worrying about what we're doing over here at Absolute Zero United, he should be worrying about how he can best get the help he so desperately needs.....before it's too late.

Who are these men? These men who search for:

* pedo 8yo fuck porn
* lolita pedo porn galleries
* dark evil kiddie pedo sex videos
* pre teen, video, rape,
* young girl hard pedo rape videos
* preteen bestiality
* cp pedo piss fuck child
* pedo masturbate baby
* toddler girl fuck pedo
* prepube girl pics
* bondage pedo
* masturbation child hurt pain
* pedo torture
* penetrate pedo child
* sucked off by preteen girl
* kids nude diapers rape incest pedo top forced cp bondage

Tony Guerra a 21 year old employee at Disney World has plead guilty to multiple child pornography charges. Tony was searching for "hardcore videos involving babies". The seizure of his computer led to:

Robert Leslie Metz a 54 year old man who was trading cp with Tony. In fact, during just one chat session in which they discussed having sex with 1 and 2 year old children, they traded over 1,000 images. Robert was in possession of over 20,000 child porn images, including infants, toddlers, many of which were of a sadistic nature in which children were tied and bound. One image in particular was of Metz molesting his own infant daughter. Robert also confessed to molesting his other two daughters when they were 6 and 8 years old. He told authorities that he looked at these images as a way he could "go to a happy place"

Computer examination determined that from Aug. 6 to Sept. 29, Metz distributed 16,537 images of child pornography to people in the United States, England, Amsterdam and Germany

Robert is facing a 40 year federal sentence under his plea agreement.

Andrew Neston 21 years old was also trading child porn with Tony Guerra. He was in possession of more than 6,500 images of child porn, including pictures of bondage and sadomasochism involving girls ages 7 to 14. He was recently sentenced to 20 years in federal prison under a plea agreement.

Those are just a few of who these men are. Scumbags, perverts, pedophiles and absolutely without a doubt child predators. And while I've been accused of being "angry" I can't help but wonder who could know about these things and NOT be angry? What my accusers obviously don't understand is that my anger is cold and calculating. It is directed at those who prey on children, and defend, promote and enable those who do. If you are one of those people I only have one suggestion:

"REMEMBER WINSTON SMITH!"

DO YOU KNOW WHO IS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?

www.FamilyWatchDog.us


Also, don't forget about the FBI Sex Offender Registry Site: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/registry.htm

Sadly enough, there are people who actually think we should give pedophiles a break and let them rejoin society, leaving them alone to do as they please. Interestingly enough, most of these people end up arrested for sex crimes against children, themselves.

I think I'll stick to protecting my child and my child's rights and NOT the pedophile - who has no right assaulting children!

And I think I'll stick to the warnings and suggestions of being vigilant and cautious by FBI and other law enforcement who bring down these criminals every day and deal with the victims of repeat offenders that were "just trying to rejoin society"!

~S~

WARNING TO PARENTS: Today is Alice Day! (April 25, 2008)

To all those in this fight against child sexual abuse, please remember that TODAY is ALICE DAY!

Alice Day is a celebration by pedophiles and child rapists, who have distorted the relationship between Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson - author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (though you know him by his pen name of Lewis Carroll). They claim there was a sexual relationship between he and the child just because he would take her and other children on rowing trips and frequently delighted in telling them stories he would create through his wonderfully vivid imagination. This has become known as “the Alice myth” and has absolutely no foundation in truth.

As a matter of fact, it has rather been proved that he was quite the ladies’ man and would entertain much older women quite often - much to the embarrassment of his family, who hid the behavior by destroying journal entries after his death. They even started rumors of his homosexuality because at that time, it was more accepted to be gay than to be a philanderer.

The pedophiles and child rapists have adopted what they call “Alice Day” in celebration of who they revere as a pedophile’s hero and their own sick ideas of little Alice and children like her, of enticing children with stories and any other means to gain a victim.

There are many ways pedophiles and sexual predators will celebrate today:

1. Find activities in their area involving children - such as parties, park outings, sporting events
-- They will watch the children, photograph the children, and attempt to have a BM or GM, which stands for “Boy Moment” and “Girl Moment”. This includes a conversation with the child, in which they could gain information to get to the child at a later date. However, this could also include just sitting back watching a particular child at play.

They appraise a child’s form as if it were that of a stripper in a club, and they write the moment down later for their friends - online and in real life - with added feelings of desire they had while exploring the child’s body with their eyes and filthy mind.

Please keep in mind that a child does not have to be nude or in a bathing suit to be visualized that way by these people. They are sick enough to imagine that for themselves.


2. Seek victims for themselves - either through the first option or by riding around looking for easy targets: children walking alone, children playing outside with no supervision, children wandering in a store with an inattentive parent… I don’t have to tell you the rest as “victim” says it all.


3. Seek victims for others - through option 1 as well as option 2. The information they attain through their Boy or Girl moment is not always kept to themselves, especially on Alice Day. They get that information and share it to their pedophilia ring friends so that others will have a chance at acquiring a victim at a later date. The children they snare also often become shared sexual toys for themselves as well as others in their group.

Photos and stories of children are precious to these people and they will even pay money for them and more money for addresses and personal information of targets.


A lot of times, the person acquiring this information isn’t even a pedophile, themselves. They are just in it for the money from the sales of the photos and information that a pedophile and child predator can use to get their target.

Also remember that men are not the only perpetrators. Women make up a small percentage of sexual predators and abusers, but they DO exist. Even so far as to pimp out their own children for drugs or other selfish reasons.

I’m sure you’re wondering what can be done to spot or stop these people. You can’t very well go accusing every person you see in a public venue of being a sexual predator, nor should you be paranoid. Just careful.

It’s always better safe than sorry, but there is always common sense.

For instance: if you see a lone person with no children sitting nearby staring at the children at play, it’s a pretty good chance he’s there for less than honorable reasons. Particularly if he/she has a camera and no credentials to any claim of being a reporter - which should also be questioned and dealt with as any parent would by calling the editor of his paper to check his story should he say this.

If you are quite certain you’ve spotted someone with ulterior, twisted motives for watching your child or others at play, call the police immediately. Confrontation with a group of concerned parents also works. No violence is necessary as these people fear being caught at their private game and will quickly vacate the area. You also send a strong message that your children are protected and NOT easy targets!


ALWAYS teach children not to talk to strangers.
ALWAYS teach children to never give personal information to a stranger.
ALWAYS teach children to never give the information of another child to a stranger.
ALWAYS teach children to scream, “NO!” and “STRANGER!” very loudly if they encounter someone asking questions or trying to get them to come with them.
ALWAYS teach children to use a secret or safe word or password and to NEVER tell ANYONE, not even their friends, what this word is.


You should also discuss police officers with your child. Teach them how to spot a real officer from someone posing as one: “No, sweety, I’m sorry but I don’t know the safe word. Your mommy/daddy was too hurt to tell me. You can trust me because I’m a police officer/fireman/doctor.” This is NOT okay!

They should tell a teacher or another parent right away. If the person is real, they will be happy to supply proper credentials and will be glad the child was so careful.

Remember, too, that uniforms are a dime a dozen - figuratively speaking. Official vehicles, however, are a bit harder to come by. It’s one thing for a person dressed in a “uniform” to tell the child the plain car is undercover, and another when the car actually has the decals, lights, and sirens.


** You should also remember that children want to please adults. They want praise and to feel special. They can either get this from home or from the stranger offering it to them if they would only come with them.

There are certain kinds of children predators go for. Remember that predators are patient. They could be watching a potential target for weeks, sometimes months, before striking. They want to be sure the target meets their criteria before they strike. Some of the markings of a perfect target are:

1. Always alone
2. Latch-key kid
3. Parents/Guardians are either hardly around the child or are always too busy to talk to/spend time with the child
4. Always dirty, hungry - suggests the child is not being cared for at home and the parents don’t pay attention to the child’s needs
5. Is always being reprimanded or admonished by parents or guardians - as if they can do no right or are not trusted
6. Is taught to keep secrets, or is in an environment - like abuse - where secrets are a normal thing
7. Has not been taught to not talk to strangers

Now, a lot of these things are also the markings of a child someone wants to care about; however, in the case of a sexual predator, these signs of neglect are the markings of a child whose abuse will go unnoticed or of a child who won’t be believed should they come forward.


There are what’s called “grooming techniques” that predators follow on kids like this. They include:

1. Being a confident to a lonely child
2. Constantly praising a child who is told otherwise at home
3. Being innocently affectionate to a child who is given no such attention at home - simple hugs, holding hands, pats on the head or back…. All things a parent or guardian would do that in no way suggests sex. That will come in time with longer back rubs, more involved hugging, and so forth.


**Anything a parent or guardian should be doing to fulfill a child’s need for love and affection, acceptance and worth but is NOT doing will be fulfilled by the predator in order to gain the child’s trust and compliance.

Later, when the perpetrator acts out his long awaited assault, he will blame the child for allowing him to get so close, blame the child for “flirting”, for “coming onto him”, for “asking for it” by accepting his “love”.

Every good thing the perpetrator did prior to his assault of the child becomes a tool to use against the child to make the child feel it was all his/her fault.

It is NEVER the fault of a child and every child should be taught that they are NEVER to blame if someone touches them inappropriately.

Even if a parent is one who isn’t in the child’s life very often - perhaps through work or divorce or separation - that parent should at the VERY LEAST teach their child that NO ONE has the right to touch their body and that if it ever happens, it is NEVER their fault.

EVERY parent or guardian MUST be sure their child understands that if they are ever touched or assaulted in any way, that child can tell their parent or guardian without fear of being ridiculed or punished. That it is not their fault and the parent or guardian WILL make it right, even if they may not be around for other things. Not being there for a soccer game does NOT mean they won’t be there if someone tries or does hurt their child. The child MUST know and FEEL this is the case.

So, remember to be alert not just today, Alice Day, but every day! There are other days: NAMBLA days and NAMGLA days: North American Man Boy Love Association and North American Man Girl Love Association. And every day one of these pervs gets close to a child or hurts a child is a celebration to them.

For more information on Grooming as well as Alice Day and techniques to protect your child, please visit:
Warriors For Innocence

In fact, there is a new blog there about Alice Day 25, 2008:

“Alice Day is tomorrow, April 25th. Alice Day is a ‘holiday’ that was created by pedophiles and child predators that are sexually attracted to little girls. They used the name Alice because they feel that Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was a pedophile.

Pedophiles use this day to celebrate pedophilia and child molestation. They hope to have a ‘girl moment‘ or GM. They are on pedophile message boards right now talking about how they plan to spend “their day”. They are happy and excited that they have a ‘holiday’ that is dedicated to their abuse and exploitation of children.

KissByAlice will be spending the day handing out pamphlets about pedophilia. These pamphlets try to fool the public into accepting pedophiles as loving and decent people. He’s so dedicated to this, that he’s going to use his bicycle and ‘pedal half across the city if I have to in order to spread pamphlets’.

Child predators are called predators for a reason. Don’t be fooled by pedophile lies. Alice Day is not a holiday. It’s a day that pedophiles choose to ban together and promote adult-child sex. Feeling that small children can consent to sex, they see nothing wrong with manipulating everyone around them in order to have access to their victims.”

~ We determine our world’s future in the way we raise our children today.

~S~

WAY TO GO, FACEBOOK!

I saw this just now on Yahoo News and wanted to share. Now, if only other sites - like LiveJournal (which caters to pedophiles, even giving them their own group), deviantART, and all the others with known pedo issues would join in, we could all but put an end to online predators. Maybe not 100% but damned close!

This article is quite encouraging and I am so glad it mentions how pedos and predators lie about their ages to join underage groups. Check it out!

~S~


Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards

By STEPHANIE REITZ, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

HARTFORD, Conn. - Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users' ability to search online for subscribers under 18 and building a task force seeking ways to better verify users' ages and identities.

"The agreement marks another watershed step toward social networking safety, protecting kids from online predators and inappropriate content," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who announced the agreement Thursday with his counterparts in several other states.

Officials from Washington, D.C., and 49 states have signed on.

"Building a safe and trusted online experience has been part of Facebook from its outset," said Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer. "The attorneys general have shown great leadership in helping to address the critical issue of Internet safety, and we commend them for continuing to set high standards for all players in the online arena."

Texas has not endorsed this agreement or a similar one reached in January among the other states, the District of Columbia and MySpace. Texas officials have said they want quicker action on verifying users' ages and identities than the pacts guarantee.

The attorneys general have been negotiating for months with Facebook and MySpace, the world's largest online social network with 200 million users around the world, for tighter controls.

"Social networks that encourage kids to come to their sites have a responsibility to keep those kids safe," North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said. "We've now gotten the two largest social networking sites to agree to take significant steps to protect children from predators and pornography."

Facebook has more than 70 million active users worldwide. Messages seeking comment were left Thursday at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

MySpace, Facebook and other online networks have created a new venue for sexual predators, who often lie about their age to lure young victims to chat, share images and sometimes meet in person. It also has spawned cyberbullies, who have sent threatening and anonymous messages to other users, sometimes classmates and others they know.

Among other changes, Facebook has agreed to:

• Ensure companies offering services on its site comply with its safety and privacy guidelines.

• Keep tobacco and alcohol ads from users too young to purchase those products.

• Remove groups whose comments or images suggest they involve incest, pedophilia, bullying or other inappropriate content.

• Send warning messages when a child is in danger of giving personal information to an adult.

• Review users' profiles when they ask to change their age, ensuring the update is legitimate and not intended to let adults masquerade as children.

The protections included in the MySpace and Facebook pacts could be expanded to smaller services such as Friendster and Bebo, Blumenthal said.

"We're entering a new era in social networking safety," Blumenthal said. "This agreement is open-ended in envisioning advances in technology that will permit even stronger steps in the future toward protecting kids' safety."

PHOTOS OF TEEN WATER POLO PLAYERS SHOW UP ON PORN SITES

Always remember that pedophiles and predators will get off on ANYTHING! Those of us who are experienced in child abuse awareness know this, so I am passing this on to you. Way to go! parents and officials who get that this is evil and children ARE hurt! There is no Free Speech in child abuse! And there never will be no matter how badly perverts want it!

*****This article and this post is in no way anti-gay. It happens to be that this is the site where these images were uploaded. If it were on a female-oriented site, it wouldn't be gay.



PHOTOS OF TEEN WATER POLO PLAYERS SHOW UP ON PORN SITES

Register investigation: Snapshots of apparently unsuspecting boys from at least 11 O.C. high schools found juxtaposed with sexual images on gay pornography Web sites.
By SCOTT M. REID and DAN ALBANO


When Edison High School boys water polo coach Diggy Riley was shown an online photo of a player on a pool deck wearing just a Speedo swim suit, he recognized the athlete immediately.

The player was an Edison freshman.

The photo was from a gay porn site that also contains photos of nude young men and young males engaged in sex acts.

The Web site is one of five gay-oriented Web sites found by The Orange County Register that contained dozens of non-action photographs of apparently unsuspecting high school boys water polo players from least 11 Orange County high schools as well as schools in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.

On these sites, images of local high school athletes, some as young as 14, according to parents, are juxtaposed next to photos of nude or semi-nude young males and graphic sexual content. The photos are the subject of lewd comments from chat room participants as far away as Australia.

"It is disgusting that this is where we are in society," El Toro High coach Don Stoll said.

The presence of the photos on these Web sites has alarmed local parents, coaches and school officials and traumatized high school athletes who were unaware they were being photographed. In some cases, boys have sought counseling after learning their photos were on the Web sites, parents said.

The photos have also raised questions about First Amendment rights as well as Internet and privacy law.

"With free speech and photography, there's a gray cloud in terms of what is legal, constitutional," said Assemblyman Jose Solorio, D-Santa Ana, chairman of the Assembly Public Safety Committee.

Solorio, after being informed of the Register's finding, said he will have the Public Safety Committee staff investigate the matter.

"The courts have generally favored free speech. But (the fact) that these photos are on Web sites, pornographic Web sites, raises valid questions about its legality," Solorio said.

But Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita, and constitutional law experts said the photographers are protected by the First Amendment.

"Based on our research, we have found it's very hard to regulate images on the Internet," Smyth said.

"These kids don't look at what they do as shameful," said Joan Gould, an international water polo official and a spokeswoman for a group of Orange County water polo parents. "This is a sport, a sport they're very passionate about, and for someone to come in and take what these kids are doing and take it out of context and exploit these images, these kids and their schools, because you can see the school name on the caps, is just horrible."

UC Irvine police confirmed they are investigating whether Scott Cornelius, a UCI police dispatcher, photographed high school players for gay-oriented sites. Cornelius remains on "active duty," according to UCI Police Chief Paul Henisey.

"We're looking into the matter," Henisey said. "We're not exactly sure about what we have or what kinds of issues there are."

Cornelius did not respond to repeated interview requests.

Although the Register's findings caught a majority of parents, players and coaches by surprise, some in the local water polo community said they were aware of the Web sites last fall.

Foothill High parent La Donna Verloop said she saw images of current and former Foothill aquatics athletes on Web sites during the fall. One player was adjusting his suit. Another was changing his suit.

"It made me sick to my stomach," Verloop recalled. "I wanted to throw up. ... If my kid was on there, you could be sure that I would have these people in court."

Verloop said she immediately notified the families of the situation.

A photo of one current Orange County player adjusting his suit is the subject of a series of lewd comments on another Web site.

"I feel my life wasn't respected as it should," the player said.

"To have people from all over the world on these Web site chat rooms talking about what they'd like to do with these kids is disgusting," Gould said. "It's completely exploitive."

The Register found non-action photos of players from 11 Orange County high schools and three other Southern California schools on several pages of boycollector.net, a gay porn site registered to a London address. Some of the water polo photos were placed on pages next to photos of young males clad only in thongs and other young males simulating masturbation.

"It's disgusting. ... No high school athlete should worry about their picture being taken during the game," said one Orange County coach, who confirmed water polo photos on a Web site included members of his team.

The site had water polo images that listed photo credits for Scott Stanford. The photos credited to Scott Stanford were removed on Friday following Register inquiries made to UC Irvine police and Cornelius.

Other non-action photos of Orange County high school athletes not credited to Stanford remain on the site. Stanford photo credits are also posted on high school water polo photos on other gay-oriented sites. One Web site posts a photo credited to Stanford of a high school player adjusting his trunks.

"Sports photographer Scott Stanford shot and shared this series of pictures in 2004 through internet and within a couple of years the boy has become famous and showed up all over the internet," a caption next to the photo said.

UCI's Henisey said investigators have received information indicating that Cornelius and Stanford are the same person.

Gould was a media operations official at the 2007 Junior World Water Polo Championships at Los Alamitos last summer. Gould said she provided Cornelius a photo credential to the tournament because of a recommendation from another photographer, Allen Rockwell. Non-action photos of athletes from France, Argentina and Puerto Rico competing in the 2007 Junior Worlds have also circulated on gay Web sites.

Gould said she was unaware of the Web site photos at the time of the tournament. She said after she became aware of the Web sites she found Scott Stanford's MySpace page. The photo of a man listed as Stanford on the MySpace page appears identical to Cornelius, Gould said.

The Register has also obtained photos of the same man sitting at the police dispatcher's desk. When Cornelius complained to Gould's Internet provider about comments she made on her Web site, his e-mail came from "Scott Cornelius (scottstanfordphotography@hotmail.com)", according to copies of e-mails obtained by the Register.

In an e-mail sent to at least two parents of Orange County high school water polo players last week, UCI Detective Shaun Devlin writes that "my department was made aware several weeks ago that Scott Cornelius was possibly taking inappropriate photographs of male water polo players at events within the greater Orange County area."

"I have collected information reference this activity and have been in contact with subject matter experts to discuss this situation," Devlin wrote.

In an e-mail to Gould's Internet provider, Cornelius denies any wrongdoing and said Gould had libeled him "by identifying me as a sexual predator, which is falsely accusing me of a crime, for merely taking pictures of athletes at water polo events."

Photographs of high school water polo players credited to "Allen Snaps" appeared on boycollector.net as well as other gay-oriented sites.

Rockwell wrote in a letter to USA Water Polo Chief Executive Officer Chris Ramsey that he shut down his Web site, allensnaps.com, in November. The site reopened with a registration by proxy, and its home page lists the owner as a Nevada company.

Calls and e-mails to Rockwell were not returned.

The paid photo Web site provides subscribers with water polo and other aquatic sports photos. A preview of the site shows action shots as well as non-action shots of male athletes showering and flexing on pool decks.

"When you sign up you will get 15 full resolution images every day, you can save the individual images to your hard drive or download a ZIP file containing the day's images. Images in the members area do NOT have watermarks or copyright logos on the images," the site said.

A legal disclaimer on the site said: "All images are of an artistic nature and are not intended to suggest or imply anything about the athletes pictured with regards to … sexual orientation." Because the photos are from public events, model release forms are not required, the site said. The photos, the site said, are from junior college and college competition but acknowledges persons under 18 participate in those events.

"Obvious photos of children will not be posted. We have no interest in children nor do we welcome members that have an interest in children. … This Web site does not contain any nudity or sexual material. If you are looking for that sort of material, you are asked to look elsewhere."

In a November letter complaining about the Web site, in response to parent's complaints, USA Water Polo's Ramsey wrote:

"Upon visiting your Web site to view the pictures myself, I noted that you state that 'we make a reasonable, honest effort to ensure that all athletes on the site are at least 18 years of age.' With all due respect, even a cursory review of the pictures on your Web site reveals that many of the athletes whose pictures you are displaying are minors. Further, a number of the pictures were taken at events where only minors were allowed to compete."

Ramsey also said in the letter that the Huntington Beach federation was "determined" to restrict photography at USA Water Polo events to team and family members and designated media.

In a letter in response, Rockwell said he shut down the site in November and that just prior to closing the site, "every single image on the site was from college or university games."

"I am not the hiding in the bushes photo-predator monster that some people want to believe I am," Rockwell wrote, adding that he had received photo credentials to international water polo events.

"This is a difficult issue to be sure," Rockwell wrote. "Every image I took was 100 percent legal and selling the images is also 100 percent legal, yet it angers some people. Perhaps (I suspect) it is the very fact that it's legal that angers them so. I do not know what the answer is. Your prohibition on photography at events (other than family members, etc.) in my opinion is probably not going to work because you have no control over what little Jimmy's mother, brother, sister or uncle does with their photos after they leave the venue. Millions of people in America have digital cameras or camera phones – that cat is out of the bag so to speak."

Peter Yu, director of Drake's Intellectual Property Law Center, said photos taken at public events like high school sports competitions are generally protected by the Constitution.

But Yu also said parents might have legal recourse against photographers and Web sites if the photos are posted on commercial sites.

Assemblyman Smyth has authored the Surrogate Stalker Act (AB534) that would make it illegal to use Internet images to inflict harm on children. The bill was prompted by Jack McClellan, who last year photographed children at California schools and playgrounds and placed them on a Web site described by law enforcement officials as popular with pedophiles.

"This is exactly why we are introducing the Surrogate Stalker Act," Smyth said, referring to the water polo photos. "(The photos) show that this issue goes beyond one incident with McClellan.

"This is why we have to enact some stricter laws to protect our kids."

~S~

GRAPHICS AND SYMBOLS YOU SHOULD KNOW!

(FULL CREDIT GOES TO LOST IN LIMA OHIO FOR THIS COPY/PASTED INFORMATION! ~S~)

As mentioned before, these are just some of the symbols accepted and used in the online pedophile community to identify themselves. They can be displayed on websites, in avatar form, and can also be found off line, in the form of coins, key chains, stickers, rings, necklaces etc.

A heart within a heart, or "GLogo" "GirlLover" is used by pedophiles attracted to girls. The heart in a heart, to them, represents a adult/ female child relationship.

A blue spiral-shaped triangle symbol, or "BLogo" "BoyLover", symbolizes a boy (small triangle) surrounded by an older male (larger triangle)- and is meant to show adult/male child relationships.

The butterfly CLogo a.k.a. “ChildLover” (commonly looks like four touching hearts) in pink/blue represents non-preferential gender pedophiles (girl or boy attracted, often both).

The yin-yang looking circle is CGlogo, used in reference to the website, Common Ground, which was created as a place for both girl and boy attracted pedophiles to meet and sympathize with each other.

The pink/blue triangles is "AmaroSymbol" is a variation of the CGLogo.

But, it's not just symbols that you ought to know about. The online version of the "strange creepy man" uses their own shorted slang (think: your teenagers spelling while text messaging) in order to classify themselves, and their interests.

* AoA: Short for "age of attraction" meaning the age groups of children they are attracted to

* MAA: Minor attracted adult (used in hopes of sounding less sickening than the word "pedophile")

* AoC: Age of (legal) consent

* CL: ChildLover, pedophile

o GL: Attracted to girls
o BL: Attracted to boys

* CL: ChildLover, pedophile

* YF: Young friend, used when speaking about a victim

You'll also see a good deal of "LGs" or little girls, "GMs" for a "girl moments", which is time spent with a young girl (that can either be a passing second consisting of nothing more than a glance or a smile, or a lengthy visit with a girl).

Then there are the chats, or message boards:

* CC: known as Common Ground, a place for pedophiles of both preferences. Common ground, while being the one that touts of being for "all" pedophiles is less used than either of the other forums:
* GC: GirlChat- for those that favor victimizing girls
* BC: BoyChat- for those that favor victimizing boys