general internet news - 19 September

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

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Yahoo Moves Into the Hot Zone
The web portal's decision to help Chinese authorities
track down and jail a journalist could cloud new
efforts to ramp up original news reporting.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68873,00.html

China Mulls 'Gang of 15 Million'
Wired's sex-tech columnist wonders if the Great
Firewall of China can withstand the onslaught of all
those lonely young men now that they've discovered
webcam chat.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68861,00.html

jp: Cell phone firms restrict harmful sites
Japanese cell phone firms are introducing Internet
filtering software for cell phones to protect children
from pornographic and other harmful sites.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050915-06081200-bc-japan-harmfulsites.xml

us: Ad Council and National Center For Missing &
Exploited Children partner with Writers Guild Of
America and AOL to address online sexual exploitation
(reg req'd)
The Advertising Council and the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in partnership
with the Writers Guild of America, west?s Committee of
Women Writers and America Online will host a panel
discussion tonight designed to raise awareness about
the prevalence and dangers of online sexual
exploitation of teens. The roundtable entitled, ?Don?t
Believe the Type: Help Delete Online Predators,? was
developed as an extension of the Ad Council and NCMEC
national public service advertising (PSA) campaign and
will be held at WGA?s Los Angeles headquarters.

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2108

Canadians get Web Aware
The Canadian Media Awareness Network (MNet) offers a
wealth of resources for teachers, parents and and
kids. The aim is to help young people develop an
informed and critical approach to using the Internet
and other media.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/ca.htm

dk: Young Danes develop media skills
The Internet is a medium that requires a complex set
of skills. Danish young people use the Internet to a
great extent and therefore must be educated in media
competences.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/dk1.htm

Weblogs teach children basic media skills
A British school does it. Danish schools will see it
soon. Weblogs as educational tools are on the rise.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/dk2.htm

Safe sites for kids
It is widely agreed that pornographic or violent
content is unsuitable for children. There are however
a number of other criteria that can be used to
determine if a website is appropriate for younger
surfers.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/eun.htm

lt: New node to make Internet 'friendlier' in
Lithuania
A new national node for safety awareness has been
launched in Lithuania. Partners held a press
conference on 29 August 2005 to present their
programme and reveal research that shows an increasing
number of children and younger teenagers are going
online.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/lt.htm

de: Handysektor.de addresses mobile safety
Over 90% of 12-19 year olds in Germany have a mobile
phone. Now that many mobile phones allow access to
online services, they need to be aware of certain
risks associated with the technology.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/de.htm

au: NetAlert Expo ? touring Australia for children?s
www.ellbeing
NetAlert is currently touring Australia on a National
Internet safety training and awareness campaign. Each
State and Territory will be visited where workshops
and seminars will be held for community groups,
parents and families, teachers and librarians.

http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0905/au.htm

us: Antonovich: Plan to Block Porn at Library
Deficient
The county?s top librarian has proposed measures to
keep children from inadvertently seeing Internet
pornography while it is being viewed by adults in
public libraries.

http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=7867

us: Porn at town hall
East Bridgewater Town Administrator George Samia
wasn't looking for porn when he sent town computers to
a private firm to have their hard drives searched.

http://www.enterprisenews.com/articles/2005/09/18/news/news/news01.txt

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au: Child pornography circulating again
WHEATBELT detectives are concerned about the
re-emergence of child pornography on the Internet.
According to the officer-in-charge Detective Sergeant
Craig Davis, they have received two reports from
Merredin residents of unsolicited material arriving on
their computers.

http://avonvalleyadvocate.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=424201

us: Text of John Roberts hearing - with questions on
pornography and free speech
"Since you've talked about the Internet, let me turn
to a disturbing trend in regards to the Internet. And
that has, quite frankly, to do with pornography." AND
"Judge, in light of that question, here are my
questions. "Are there or should there be different
levels of speech under the First Amendment? Should
pornography, for instance, be treated with less regard
than Mark Twain's Huck Finn ? And how would you, if
confirmed to the Supreme Court, decide what
protection, if any, certain kinds of expressions are
entitled to under the First Amendment?" For John
Roberts' responses, see:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1154&slug=Roberts%20Transcript%209

Spam and scam 'could make internet unusable'
The boom era of the internet - symbolised by the likes
of Amazon, eBay and Lastminute.com - will soon be a
thing of the past unless coordinated action is taken
to improve security, Microsoft has warned.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1572753,00.html

ca: Ontario Court of Appeal Reverses Bangoura Net
Jurisdiction Decision
The Ontario Court of Appeal released its
much-anticipated Bangoura v. Washington Post decision
yesterday, reversing the lower court' s ruling that
asserted jurisdiction over the Post in a dispute over
an article published in 1997. The appellate court' s
reversal is welcome news since the case had the
potential to create a chilling effect on Internet
publication.

http://michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=959&Itemid=89&nsub=

us: Cyberstalkers Beware: New Toolkit Nabs Online
Predators
Researchers are developing a computer system designed
to help law enforcement agents thwart cyberstalking.
Computer science Professor Sudhir Aggarwal and members
of the Florida Cybersecurity Institute have built a
hardware and software prototype called the Predator
and Prey Alert system.
 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/514499/

int: Top cops to attend Interpol assembly in Berlin
TOP POLICE officials are scheduled to leave Sunday
night for Berlin, Germany to attend the 74th Interpol
General Assembly. Police spokesperson Chief
Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said global terrorism,
human trafficking, and Internet pornography will top
the meeting's agenda.

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=50592

us: Cops crack down on Internet porn involving
children
It's a multi-billion dollar enterprise and is one of
the fastest growing businesses on the Internet. With
digital and Web cameras, it's easy to produce. With
credit cards, it's simple to purchase and trade.
 http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15219749

uk: Today I'll Build A Bomb, Tomorrow I'll Abuse A
Child, On Monday I'll Go Back To Work"
Gaining access to ?illegal? and unsavoury material
online is quite literally child?s-play. In every other
aspect of our lives access to materials of an adult,
or illegal nature is controlled. Access is granted via
licence, age limit, or completely prohibited, and
prosecutions are actively made for infringement of
these criteria (consider a child attempting to buy
pornography from a corner shop).

http://pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Internet/_Today_I_ll_Build_A_Bomb_Tomorrow_I_ll_Abuse_A_Child_On_Monday_I_ll_Go_Back_To_Work__36690.html

uk: Web tycoon admits stealing scandal emails
Stolen emails set off a chain of events that led to
the taxpayer recovering £12m from a disgraced Tory
politician.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1571550,00.html

us: Protecting Your Kids  	 
Law enforcement and parents are getting an eye-opening
look at just how close predators get to kids on the
internet. Detective Michael Sullivan of the Illinois
Attorney General's office investigates child
pornography and internet seduction cases. "The fact
is, most children don't think that the person online
is a stranger," Sullivan said. "That meeting them
poses a danger."
 http://www.wthitv.com/newsdet.asp?id=9649

us: Child victims of sex offenders are increasing
In California, the are more than 85,000 registered sex
offenders. Twenty-one thousand sex offenders are
presently in the California state prison system, 9,000
are out of prison (on parole) and 5,000 are in county
jails awaiting trial. The large majority of the
aforementioned were involved in sex offenses against
children. Every one of us, and particularly parents
with sons and daughters, should be keenly interested
in this subject.

http://www.vidaenelvalle.com/news/english/story/11218166p-11969276c.html

us: Police blotter: Porn suspect claims rights breach
A man facing a score of child pornography charges
asked a federal court to throw out all evidence he
claimed was seized illegally by government agents.

http://news.com.com/Police+blotter+Porn+suspect+claims+rights+breach/2100-1030_3-5865375.html

us: Teenager Pleads Guilty to Hacking Into Hilton's
Cell Phone
A Massachusetts teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking
into the cell phone account of hotel heiress and
Hollywood celebrity Paris Hilton.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091301857.html

us: EWARE HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF SCAMS (news
release)
Days before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf
Coast of the U.S., fraudsters began registering
Katrina-related websites hoping to profit from an
anticipated outpouring of charitable donations for
storm victims. How prevalent are these fraud schemes?
What are we doing to stop them? How can you safely
make donations online? For the answers to these
questions and more we talked with our top cyber exec,
Louis M. Reigel.

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept05/katrinarelief091405.htm

Net scam comes from Russia with love
Scammers are hunting dating sites in the attempt to
lure fresh victims. Instead of the lads from Lagos its
the scammers from Siberia who've invaded match.com,
reports Reg reader 'Hot Lips'.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/17/dating_scam/

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POLICY
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us: US Senate turns aside Web gambling ban for now
The U.S. Senate on Thursday turned aside an attempt to
restrict Internet gambling in a procedural move, but
Sen. Jon Kyl vowed he would try again and said he
expected the legislation would become law eventually.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-09-15T161739Z_01_DIT557401_RTRIDST_0_NET-CONGRESS-INTERNET-GAMBLING-DC.XML

nl: Dutch Treat: Personal Database 
The Dutch government will begin tracking every citizen
from cradle to grave in a single database, opening a
personal electronic dossier for every child at birth
with health and family data, and eventually adding
school and police records.

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68866,00.html

ca: Push is on for tougher child-porn laws
The mother of a slain Toronto girl is pushing for
tougher child pornography laws.

http://www.canada.com/hamilton/news/story.html?id=1cad36b1-5d29-471b-8464-df1f163fda86

eu: Voice over broadband in France: no regulation on
internet telephony required (news release)
The European Commission today endorsed the plans of
French national telecoms regulator ARCEP to boost
competition in fixed-line telephony markets. The
Commission agrees that ARCEP?s regulatory approach to
Internet telephony is an efficient way to encourage
competition between internet carriers of telephone
traffic and traditional telephone networks, but also
calls upon it to monitor this part of the retail
market closely for any anti-competitive practices and
if necessary intervene to remedy them.

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1146

eu: review of the regulatory framework for
e-Communications
A speech by Viviane Reding, Member of the European
Commission responsible for Information Society and
Media, at 1st Meeting of the Centre for European
Policy Studies Taskforce on Electronic Communications
in Brussels on 15 September 2005

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/05/515

us: Games watchdog warns over content
Games publishers in the US have been told by the
industry's watchdog that they must declare any hidden
content in games released since September 2004.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4246704.stm

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Ring Tones, Cameras, Now This: Sex Is Latest Cellphone
Feature
The pornography industry is eyeing the cellphone as a
lucrative new vehicle for distribution.
 http://iht.com/articles/2005/09/16/business/porn.php
 http://nytimes.com/2005/09/17/technology/17porn.html
(reg req'd; free for short period)

uk: Stalkers: 'I was getting 40 texts a day. Then they
became really sinister' (free for a few days)
Nearly a million people in Britain are harassed each
year. Now stalkers are turning to mobiles as their
'weapon' of choice.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article313447.ece

Netting the next five billion
Getting the whole world online must be more of a
priority for our leaders, argues BBC technology
analyst Bill Thompson.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4251760.stm

Google launches specialty search engine for blogs
A new Google Inc. specialty search engine sifts
through the Internet's millions of frequently updated
personal journals, a long-anticipated development
expected to help propel ``blogging'' into the cultural
mainstream.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/12645189.htm
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=10238

uk: BSkyB moving towards hybrid Internet platform
BSkyB is adding a range of new features to its pay-TV
service, a top executive said, and it may eventually
move to a hybrid platform of satellite and broadband
delivery.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9678026

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1783805,00.html

Asia tackles online game addiction
Warning: online game playing can be hazardous to
health. So far, such a warning -- usually reserved for
addictive products like cigarettes and liquor -- has
yet to appear on the growing stable of online game
titles rapidly gaining popularity in Asia.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9646587

us: Virtual Games Create A Real World Market
For a year and a half, Tod Kellen roamed the universe
in the online computer game Star Wars Galaxies, living
a fantasy life as a successful Jedi knight. Last week,
Kellen decided the game was stealing too much time
from his real life as a salesman for a chain of
Wisconsin funeral homes, so he took extreme action: He
auctioned off his fictional alter-ego on eBay. The
winning bidder paid $510 for the game character Kellen
had created and all the winnings he had accumulated in
hours of play -- a top-notch light saber, a speeder
bike, a nice chunk of real estate on the planet Lok
and a bank account containing millions of Imperial
credits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091602083.html

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FILE SHARING
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Accused File-Sharer Can Challenge Music Industry's
Collection Efforts
A woman who was sued for allegedly sharing copyrighted
music files over the Internet can proceed with two of
her claims against a company retained by the Recording
Industry Association of American to collect
"settlements" from accused file-sharers, a federal
judge in Seattle has ruled.

http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/bt/cmp/20050916/20050916leadbetter.html

au: Musicians hail Kazaa ruling Down Under
Dozens of Australian bands, musicians and their
managers have signed an open letter supporting a court
ruling that the popular file-swapping program Kazaa
infringes musical copyrights.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw112685652041B223

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/kazaa-ruling-backed/2005/09/16/1126750117464.html

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Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser
The online world waits anxiously as Firefox vets
prepare to launch a browser that will hook into
popular web services automatically. Bloggers around
the web rejoice.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68823,00.html

Yahoo Overhauling Free E-Mail
Selected account holders begin testing a new version
of the largest free e-mail service around. If all goes
well, Yahoo will convert all of its 63 million
customers to the new system.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68853,00.html

Telecoms and the internet
The acquisition by eBay of Skype is a helpful reminder
to the world's trillion-dollar telecoms industry that
all phone calls will eventually be free

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4400704

Microsoft fights the flab as it turns 30
As the software giant approaches middle age it faces
some critical challenges

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-1785208,00.html

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uk: Child net porn teacher jailed for a year
A TEACHER was yesterday jailed for a year on child
porn charges. Physics teacher Brendan Leonard, 35,
worked at Portobello High School. But in his spare
time he shared child porn with other paedophiles on
the internet.
 http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1953712005

za/ru: Child porn couple want bail
The Russian couple who were sentenced earlier this
year on charges of indecent assault and child
pornography are making another attempt at securing
bail.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050915100930543C177596

za: Sports editor held in Internet sex sting
A newspaper sports editor has been charged with
arranging a sexual encounter over the Internet with an
undercover officer posing as a 12-year-old girl,
police said.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1126943283534B225

us: Computer fix leads to jail time
A Stafford County man's decision to get his computer
fixed ended up being a lot more costly than he'd
anticipated.

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/092005/09162005/130263

us: School counselor charged in child pornography case
A social worker and school counselor for Moorhead
elementary schools has been charged with a felony
count of sending child pornography from his personal
computer.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/12671052.htm

us: Man jailed for having Child Pornography
A man who downloaded images of a child being raped has
been jailed for 4 months.

http://www.jerseyinsight.com/news_1.asp?category=1&news=17129&id=11710&id=7812

us: U.S. Atty: Federal charges against Duncan may
include child pornography
When federal charges are filed against convicted sex
offender Joseph Edward Duncan III, they may include
possession of child pornography, says a spokeswoman
for the U.S. attorney's office in Boise, Idaho.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/12666917.htm

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002500802_duncan17m.html
 http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=45089

us: Man faces two child-pornography charges
A two-count federal indictment on child pornography
charges was handed up Wednesday against a 61-year-old
Pawleys Island man.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/12659770.htm

us: Identity-theft investigation leads to a
child-pornography charge
An Arlington Heights man was charged Wednesday with
felony unlawful possession of child pornography after
an identity theft investigation by Glenview police.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-0509150223sep15,1,2205258.story

us: Man charged with possessing child pornography
A former Hayward resident has been charged with
downloading child pornography images on a computer at
a Hayward residence between January and March this
year.

http://www.haywardwi.com/record/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=208455

us: Local business man charged of child pornography
An Elkhart County businessman faces charges of child
pornography, for allegedly downloading pictures from
the Internet.
 http://www.wndu.com/news/092005/news_44743.php

us: College Station man gets 20 years for child porn
A College Station man who was charged with 103 counts
of child pornography possession earlier this year
after investigators found thousands of graphic images
on his computer was sentenced Friday to 20 years in
prison.

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/091705/local_20050917023.php

us: Two arrested on child porn charges
Two Kewaneeans were jailed this week on child
pornography charges, and one of them faces charges of
sexual abuse.

http://www.starcourier.com/articles/2005/09/16/local_news/local3.txt

us: Former Austin detective pleads guilty in child
porn case
A former Austin police detective pleaded guilty
Thursday to seven counts of child pornography,
admitting that he possessed hundreds of images on his
computer of children engaged in sexual acts.

http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/gen/ap/TX_Detective_Child_Porn.html

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=145592
 http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=3856171

http://www.myplainview.com/APTexas/parsed/stories/D8CKUQBG0.shtml

us: Child pornographer sentenced to nearly 25 years in
prison (reg req'd)
A federal judge on Friday sentenced Kelly Ray Jones,
the boyfriend of a suspected cop killer, to 24 and a
half years in prison after he was convicted on charges
of child pornography and witness tampering.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12665361.htm

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-pcjones17sep17,0,3428912.story

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cjones17sep17,0,6232026.story

us: 41-month prison term set for child pornography
A Town of Tonawanda man has been sentenced to 41
months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J.
Arcara for possessing child pornography.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050913/6069856.asp

http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=31524

us: Center director takes leave of absence
The director of the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of
Fargo-Moorhead has taken an indefinite leave of
absence after her husband was charged with
disseminating child pornography.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/12672913.htm
 http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=103222

us: Multiple child porn charges filed
A former Elkhart businessman appeared in a Cass County
court Tuesday on multiple charges of child
pornography.

http://www.etruth.com/News/Content.aspx?ID=356656&page=

us: Man charged with child exploitation on Internet
A man was charged with computer child exploitation and
transmitting harmful material to a minor after he
engaged in Internet conversations with an undercover
detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, the Broward
Sheriff's Office said Friday.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-internet17oct17,0,2585028.story

us: Man charged with possessing child pornography
A former Hayward resident has been charged with
downloading child pornography images on a computer at
a Hayward residence between January and March this
year.

http://www.haywardwi.com/record/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=208455

us: Photographs of two girls, both 17, were taken for
Internet
When two teenage girls asked James Edward Haidle to
take photos of them naked to post on the Internet, he
should have walked away, Haidle?s defense attorney
said Wednesday.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=92191&ran=139123

us: Lawyer: Ex-judge mentally ill
A former Superior Court judge who possessed several
thousand images of child pornography and videotaped
himself having sex with a teenage boy suffered mental
problems that prevented him from understanding how
wrong his actions were, a defense attorney said
Wednesday.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050915/NEWS01/509150366/

us: Ayer scoutmaster's child-porn trial set for Nov.
A longtime Ayer Boy Scout leader will go to trial in
November, facing charges he e-mailed more than 700
pictures of naked boys to an undercover police officer
posing as a child-porn collector.
 http://www.lowellsun.com/local/ci_3032098

us: East Tennessee man sent to prison for child
pornography
A federal judge in Greeneville has sentenced a
Washington County man to more than seven years in
prison on a child pornography plea.
 http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3848675

us: Child porn charges lodged
Five Sussex County residents have been arrested for
allegedly buying child pornography over the Internet,
authorities said.
 http://www.njherald.com/284236578385672.php

us: Towamensing Twp. man faces charges in sex sting
A Carbon County man has been charged by federal
authorities with crossing state lines to have sex with
minors in Maryland in a meeting arranged on the
Internet.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b6_1netsex-3sep14,0,4553075.story

us: Tulare County Sheriff?s Deputy Arrested for
Possessing Child Pornography (news release)
A deputy for the Tulare County Sheriff?s Department
was arrested today by agents with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) on suspicion of possessing
child pornography obtained over the Internet.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050913visalia.htm

us: PENNSYLVANIA MAN CHARGED IN INTERNET SEX TRAVEL
CASE (news release)
United States Attorney for the District of Maryland
Rod J. Rosenstein announces that today Thomas C.
Moser, age 37, of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, has been
charged by criminal complaint with using the internet
to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity,
interstate travel to engage in a sexual act with a
minor and using the internet to obtain control of a
minor for the purpose of producing child pornography.
Moser was arrested on Friday, September 9, 2005, by
United States Postal inspectors in Frederick, Maryland
as the result of an on-line investigation in which a
postal inspector posed as the divorced mother of 14
and 12 year-old daughters.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050913baltimore.htm

us: CATHOLIC MONK CHARGED WITH SOLICITING SEX FROM
MINORS OVER THE INTERNET (news release)
An American-born Catholic monk from Mexico City made
his initial appearance in U.S. District Court here
this morning to face charges that he used the Internet
to attempt to induce a minor to engage in unlawful
sexual activity and that he attempted to transfer
obscene material to a minor.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050914sandiego.htm

us: FAIRBANKS MAN WHO USED INTERNET TO LURE MINOR FOR
SEX GETS SEVEN-YEAR FEDERAL PRISON TERM (news release)
A former Fairbanks fast-food restaurant employee has
been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and
ordered to pay $11,500 in restitution to his
14-year-old victim after pleading guilty to using the
Internet to entice minors to have sexual contact with
him.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050915anchorage.htm

us: Child-porn convict facing new charges
A Monroe man on probation for downloading child
pornography was arrested on similar charges yesterday,
eight days after an Orange County probation officer
discovered the images on his computer during a spot
check, village police said.

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/09/17/brf474.htm

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