Hooked by fake cyber girl
p2p news / p2pnet: Two boys, 14 and 16, dreamed up ‘Jessica,’ a MySpace.com cyber girl to cheer up their lovelorn friend.
But someone else was taken in and as a direct result, a Fontana, California, man has been charged with attempted child molestation, says the Associated Press.
“Michael Ramos, 48, was charged with one felony count of attempting to commit a lewd act on a 15-year-old and two misdemeanor counts of attempted child molestation,” Karen Martinez, a San Bernardino County deputy district attorney, is quoted as saying, going on, “The child is fictional” but the crime is real.
However, it’s lucky for Ramos, jailed because he couldn’t meet the $250,000 bail, that he didn’t secretly camcord a movie owned by Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal or Disney, the owners of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
As it is, Ramos faces two years in prison if he’s convicted of all counts, and he’d have to register for life as a sex offender, Martinez said.
But if he’d been caught using a camcorder in a cinema, he could have been jailed for 17 years and fined up to $250,000, and the MPAA would have made sure his ‘crime’ was splashed all over the mainstream media.
Also See:
MySpace.com – MySpace safe, says ceo, March 7, 2006
Associated Press – Fontana man charged with sex crimes after Internet prank, March 7, 2006
17 years – Lamar Smith crows over victory, October 3, 2005
March 8th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
“But if he’d been caught using a camcorder in a cinema, he could have been jailed for 17 years and fined up to $250,000, and the MPAA would have made sure his ‘crime’ was splashed all over the mainstream media.”
What a mad, mad, mad world we live in. Its not funny.
The pranksters who suckered in a sick pervert and then handed him over to the police….
THATS funny. ha ha ha ha
March 8th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
And it isn’t funny that someone can be charged with attempting to molest a non-existent person? Actually, no, it isn’t.
March 8th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
That all depends on how it all went down, if they attracted the person first in order to have him arrested then thats not funny that he is in jail, but if he came in first then it is.
March 9th, 2006 at 5:43 am
No it isn’t, but that person probably approached other young girls on the internet as well. Law enforcement regularly pose as young children on the internet to catch child molesters/offenders. In fact, I remember a story of a civilian wife who poses as a young girl and have gotten a ridiculous amount of arrests…I can’t quite remember the number, but it was around 30, but that was a couple years ago. She’s probably caught 50 more by now…who knows.
March 10th, 2006 at 10:25 am
i agree, next it will be an arrest over cyber-marijuana, or maybe even the murder of a person that doesn’t exist.
March 10th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
It doesnt matter how it all went down, NO ADULT should be seeking to make contact with a MINOR PERIOD!!