BigJoda

No unique twist to this case.  Just another creep trolling the internet for underage girls.  I have to give the girl credit.  She got uncomfortable with the tone of the of the chat and told her mother.  Her mother notified police.  The creep has a one-year old son.

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A parent’s worst Internet nightmare nearly came true in Chesapeake when a man took a bus 2,500 miles to meet a 13-year-old girl he had met on the social networking Web site MySpace, authorities said this week.

Plus, he had a return bus ticket in the girl’s name, a federal agent said Tuesday.

After hearing explicit details of the alleged crime, a U.S. magistrate judge ordered Jesse Lee Wise, a 2 5-year-old door-to-door salesman from Nevada, jailed without bond pending grand jury action.

Wise had set up a tent in a wooded area by the Chesapeake library on Cedar Road, not far from the girl’s house, and sent her sexually explicit messages through the library’s computer, according to court records and testimony.

In a sting operation, Chesapeake police and the State Police arrested Wise on July 17 at the library, while Wise believed he was chatting with the girl over the computer. By that time, he was actually chatting with an undercover trooper… (more…)

Technorati Tags: Internet Predator, MySpace, Pedophilia

This girl sounded very trusting – too trusting.  She boarded a bus to meet a guy she met on myspace and ended up dead. Her hope was for a better life for herself and her children.  Along the way she met a guy who got arrested for drugs and spent the night in a shelter.  It’s bad enough to have one’s hope for romance dashed, but it is doubly tragic to have a young mother’s life snuffed out so cruelly.

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Nichole leaves behind two young children.

A Spring Hope mother chasing Internet romance and dreams of a better life for her children was found dead this month in Southern Ohio.

Decomposing human remains found July 12 in Scioto County were identified Monday through dental records as 20-year-old Nichole Ann Alloway, authorities announced, more than a month after Alloway was reported missing from the nearby city of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Authorities have not released a cause of death, but they are investigating the incident as a homicide, officials said.

Diane Dille wept Tuesday as she recalled the Internet love affair that pushed her granddaughter earlier this year to board a bus due north for Ohio. Alloway traveled alone to Portsmouth to meet in person with an 18-year-old man. The two had met through MySpace, Dille said, and Alloway was sure it was love.

Dille said she supported Alloway’s choice to visit, although she didn’t think her granddaughter’s trip was a good idea, she said. Alloway’s 3-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son remained in Spring Hope.

“She went up there because she thought she could have a better life for her and her children,” Dille said. “She was going to go live with this 18-year-old because she didn’t feel like she was going anywhere down here, and she was convinced this was going to give her a fresh start and a life of her own…”

Technorati Tags: Internet, MySpace

And yet another internet hook up gone bad.  It sounds like this escalated from partying to gang rape.

Read the entire story at the North County Times:

Brian Shippee is looking forward to prison dating.

Three men accused of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman one of them had met via MySpace must stand trial on aggravated kidnapping, sodomy, forcible rape and other charges, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Robert Melgoza and Brian Shippee, both 21, and Vincent Barnett Jr., 22, all face possible sentences of life in prison if convicted of the attack, which is alleged to have occurred on the evening of May 13 and predawn hours of May 14, 2008.

Prosecutor Dan Rodriguez has said the teenager had met one of the attackers through the social networking Web site just hours earlier and had agreed to meet him in person at Palomar College.

After an evening of drinking brandy, the teenager was repeatedly raped and sodomized in San Marcos and Vista and then left nearly nude near a loading dock in the business park.

According to testimony in court Monday, she walked barefoot and clad only in a bedsheet and a T-shirt to find help, eventually coming upon a gas station where she called 911…

Technorati Tags: Internet, MySpace