What is it with people named Chelsea this year? Chelsea Hoffman battles for dumbest Chelsea of 2012

Just as the Shiitake Awards is getting ready for its annual offerings, we have one last entry. Enter Chelsea Hoffman. We already have a Chelsea Schilling (who is worth less than a Shilling) and now we have Chelsea Hoffman.

Normally I reserve this category for REAL journalists, and I use that term loosely, but I generally mean an established media outlet-- CBS for example-- and not internet-only so-called "independent media" life the Huffington Post, which has a lower standard of publishing than the average newspaper.

But for this clown, I'll make an exception. She's quite the egomaniac and shameless self-promoter. On her self-titled website, she says this about herself:

Crime analyst, profiler & aspiring criminologist Chelsea Hoffman offers her insight on a seemingly endless number of high profile crime cases as well as cold cases that the media has forgotten about... Life hasn’t always been one of packed schedules of juggling full time school with full time advocacy and blogging for victims of crime. Chelsea Hoffman has walked on both sides of right and wrong living as quite a “miracle” type of story.... To put it bluntly: Chelsea Hoffman has been inside the minds of various criminals and knows just what makes them tick. She has the hands-on-experience that many people don’t, who have only been exposed to these types of personalities through case files, police reports and written letters.

Is she implying she's an ex-con? Just curious. At any rate, Hoffman fancies herself a great crime writer.

I have to disagree. See one of her more recent articles on that great *cough*crap*cough* independent site known as Gawker:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981777539#cid-1688849891763628


Absconded sex offenders are always a cause for worry in cases like these because the mere act of failing to register shows a disregard for the law and lack of respect for the safety ordinances put in place specifically for criminals of their caliber. Of course, if they're failing to register, then chances are these individuals won't be too easy to find either.

While Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook remain missing, it's important to consider that anything could have happened to these two girls. It's easy to immediately suspect a registered sex offender for their disappearance. However, it's more statistically common for someone acquainted with the girls being responsible than a random RSO -- unless of course their acquaintance is an RSO. Whatever the source of their disappearance may be, it's hopeful that law enforcement and FBI agents figure out what happened and either bring these girls home or give the family the closure they need.

I took the liberty of underlying two of Hoffman's errors. Failure to Register cases are rarely about "disregarding the law," as a Levenson study has shown those who FTR are no more likely to recidivate than those who register. Plus Hoffman assumes the presence of an RSO in the family means the perp is an RSO, but studies have proven time and time again that by far, most sex crimes are done by those with no prior records.

Maybe Chelsea should consider another line of work. Writing is obviously not her forte. Neither is researching. See some of her wonderful reviews at Amazon.com for her novels, for example. Maybe she should get a Shiitake just for that:

http://www.amazon.com/Ladykiller-ebook/product-reviews/B006AKYO38/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously Lacking..., December 1, 2011

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I originally saw this book being advertised on another website, where the author had written a news article. I was instantly excited because, I like these types of books and am always looking for a new author. What had me so greatly intrigued with this, is it's written from the killers perspective.

However this book sorely disappointed me. What promised to be graphic and not for the faint of heart. Left me laughing at the description. A mention of blood spray here, cracked skull there and a beating. But nothing major, nothing that gives the reader the creeps, nothing that will make this book memorable, and nothing that will keep me up at night.

The author made the book fast paced, but in the process left out a lot of details and made things painfully 'short'.. The dialogue, while trying to emphasize on the main characters education, or lack-there-of, made it an equally painful read. And lets not forget the poor editing skills. I found quite a few BASIC spelling errors, which again, took away from the story completely.

By the end of the book the dialogue was easier to read but it was still painfully short and lacking in detail.

Save your $$ on this one.

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Negative stars should be an option..., March 9, 2012

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This author has got to be self published there is no other explanation for how this book could get into circulation. This is train-wreck, about a third of the way through I decided to stop torturing myself and I suddenly found myself wishing it was in paperback so we could at least salvage it as toilet paper or line a bird cage with it. I would have happily purchased a bird to poop on the pages of this book. Clearly the positive review on this page are the authors friends or someone she is blackmailing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not a thrill for sure, October 4, 2012

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I thought I would give this Author the benefit of the doubt and try another of her books. I read "The Stranger" last week. Not great. This one was a little better but I wouldn't recommend it as a great read to anyone. Self publishing is rough. A writer should NEVER think they can edit their own
stuff and have a great read, no matter how smart they think they are. No offense, just being honest.

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 At least put some effort in it, October 24, 2011

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Hinkleberry "Wordsmith"

This review is from: The Stranger (Fear Chronicles Presents) (Kindle Edition)

The writing is mediocre-to-bad. It reads like cliched fan fiction. It is stereotypical horror.

And the book itself -- it's like no effort was put into the formatting. There's not even a space break between chapters. The entire book is one sentence, followed by one half-sentence. Impossible to read with this formatting.

Just bad.

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Chris Hansen OWNED

Chris Hansen owned. What more can I say?

http://youtu.be/bqx3Zqp1IJA

My Faux29 Philly gets Registrant fired. Way to go, assholes!

Another idiot reporter gets a registrant fired from his job. It's Faux News, what do you expect?

This reporter needs to lose his job.

Is it just me or does Chris O'Connell look like Chris Farley? Just as ugly but only half as smart.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/convicted-sex-offender-working-at-citizens-bank-park


Convicted Sex Offender Working At Citizens Bank Park
Updated: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 10:38 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 10:21 PM EDT


A convicted sex offender has a job that may surprise you. D**** A****'s co-workers tipped us off that he works at Citizens Bank Park in areas where he comes into contact with children and he has for years. (How much are you willing to bet this coworker just got mad at his boss over some petty shit?)


What could be a more family friendly event than a Phillies game. Well many parents we spoke with tonight were shocked to find out that working inside of citizen's bank park around many children, a convicted sex offender.


Douglas A**** arrived to work at citizen's bank park today like he's done for the last couple years. He works for Aramark supervising concession workers at the stadium.


But we learned something about aster his boss didn't know. Aster is considered a lifetime sex offender on the state police Megan's Law website He was convicted of involuntary deviate sexual assault and other charges for a 2003 sexual assault of a teenage girl in Bucks County. 


When Chris O’ Connell approached A**** to ask him about his conviction, A**** quickly disappeared into a back room not to be seen the rest of the night.


What we learned is a**** was sentenced to 1-2 years in the Bucks County prison for his crimes. He has completed his 5 year probation. But he will remain on the sex offender registry. Many parents we spoke with couldn't believe Aramark, the Phillies concession contractor, would hire someone with his background or not check in the first place.


And a late development, a Aramark spokesman says since this was brought to the companies attention by Fox 29--D***** A**** has been terminated from his position tonight. The company could not tell us if a background check was done on him. 

Ned Hibberd walks us into a dumb report magnet

It's a Fox Affiliate, it's a bad headline, it's everything you've come to expect from a Worst News Mutt Category. Ned Hibbert is a bad report magnet. Read below for more:

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/120509-walking-into-a-sex-offender-magnet


Walking into a Sex Offender Magnet
Updated: Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 10:22 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 10:07 PM CDT


NED HIBBERD
Reporter
HOUSTON - Parks and playgrounds are a magnet for children, so you may be surprised at how many convicted sex offenders live around them.


Halbert Park, in the Heights, has 43 registered within one mile and 181 within two miles. Those numbers were a sinister surprise for Mary Hernandez, who brings her grandkids to Halbert all the time.


“Oh my God,” said Hernandez, when shown the map of sex offender residences - a database compiled by the Texas Department of Public Safety. “I don't want to think. You never know who can snatch 'em or what.”


Grimes Park, in southeast Houston, is surrounded by 15 sex offenders within half a mile and 61 within one mile.


Castillo Park, in the East End, has 92 registered sex offenders living within a mile and 284 within two miles.


“I know everyone's always worried about strangers approaching children,” said attorney Sam Mukerji, “but more often than not it's already somebody that you know.”


In fact, more than 90-percent of children who are victimized will be targeted by someone in their inner circle.


So says Diane Vines, a therapist at the Children’s Assessment Center.


“The truth is: most sexual abuse occurs in the home, by people who should be protecting the children from the abuser. They are the abuser,” explained Vines, who counsels the young victims. “Step-parents, grandparents, relatives, people that the family trusts.”


And because those authority figures are trusted, they tend to get away with it.


Part of Mukerji’s law practice involves suing sexual predators. And he says most of them are not already on the DPS’s maps.


“I feel like they are able to – more so than other types of criminals - are able to get by without being noticed,” explained Mukerji. “They've done it multiple times before they're actually caught.”


And it is staggering how many children are sexually victimized, in one way or another, by the time they reach age 18.


According to Diane Vines’ statistics, up to 18-percent of boys and as many as 30-percent of girls have been raped, molested or exposed to sexually inappropriate behavior.


The younger they are when it happens, says Vines, the harder it is to heal.


“They can have flashbacks with the feeling and they don't know where it comes from,” said the therapist. “They start to feel crazy. And that's very hard to work with because they don't know why they're doing this, and they can't really process it. It is way worse with a much younger child.”

Phil Elmore wants us to know he's a potential predator

He's coming out of the closet...

This guy is Phil Elmore, a "freelance writer" and for today, he's featured in the WND (Weapon of News Destruction). I don't know what the deal is with WND, but so far I'm not impressed with the quality of their writers. So this guy, who apparently does voice acting on the side, apparently poses as a freelance writer on occasion, and the result is hilariously bad. His main errors:

1. He claims 2/3 of Registrants re-offend-- complete bullshit
2. Never hire a male babysitter-- that is exactly what got John Walsh in hot water a few years ago. Of course, Phil Elmore is a man so this means he might be a sex offender. Then again, look at the guy. He might just be...
3. Stranger Danger: That went out with bell bottoms and platform shoes; not even the paranoid NCMEC promotes that archaic crap anymore.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2012/05/monstrous-predators-want-your-kids/


MONSTROUS PREDATORS WANT YOUR KIDS
Exclusive: Phil Elmore gives tips for keeping children safe from pedophiles
Published: 20 hours ago
by PHIL ELMORE


Phil Elmore is a freelance reporter, author, technical writer, voice actor and the owner of Samurai Press. Visit him online at www.philelmore.com.
    
The highest court in New York State ruled Tuesday that viewing child pornography online isn’t necessarily possessing child pornography. While the merits of the ruling itself can be argued, the case merely emphasizes the dangers your children face. The bipedal monster who derives gratification from merely viewing underaged sex acts today could actively seek to rape your child tomorrow. This is a logical progression and we would be fools not to recognize it.


There are websites online through which you may chart registered sex offenders living in your area. Most people, when they do this, are amazed and horrified at just how many registered sex offenders live in close proximity to them, even in small towns with low crime rates. According to the legal information website duhaime.org, one out of five girls and one out of six boys will be molested before the age of 18. More than two-thirds of molesters offend again. Duhaime, quoting Taking Care of Your Child, says that 4,600 children are abducted by non-relatives every year. One in every five kids will be sexually propositioned through the Internet.


Predators who target children are remarkably prevalent in industrialized society, and as the statistics bear out, most of them are recidivists – repeat offenders who are not in any way “reformed” by prison time, counseling, probation, or any of the many ineffective “solutions” our legal system seems to think will keep them in check. The fact is, a child sex predator could be stalking your child right now. The ultimate responsibility for safeguarding your children is yours.


Laundry lists of tips to keep your children safe are about as common as the predators themselves. The following, however, are some good general guidelines for keeping your children safer in a dangerous modern world. Most, if not all, are common sense, but where your children are concerned, no amount of repetition is a bad thing. Our children are defined as dependents for a reason. They depend on their parents for everything, while they lack the judgment we are supposed to provide for them.

Would you hire this guy to babysit YOUR kids?

Thinking of hiring a male babysitter? Don’t. Most men are not criminals, but the overwhelming majority of sexual predators and child molesters are male (the epidemic of female teachers sleeping with their students notwithstanding). Simply put, it’s unusual (though not unheard of) for a young man to enjoy the company of, or wish to spend his time nurturing, other people’s children. Be suspicious also of men and boys (or female teachers, natch) who want unsupervised time with your children. Whether it’s the 20-something who wants to “date” your minor daughter, or an older neighborhood man who has befriended your preteen sons, there are very great child molestation risks involved. NEVER leave your child alone with such people.


Talk to your children about authority figures, and discuss with them what is normal and what is not. Very young people have no frame of reference. A child does not know that it is not normal, say, to be beaten with a yard stick while in nursery school, because until a very young child is told otherwise, that’s just how the world works to him or her. Discuss with your children what actions are not appropriate for strangers or relatives (versus what actions are – this is the classic “good touch” and “bad touch” information). Most importantly, explain to them that it is not OK for a person in a position of authority, like a sports coach, a religious figure, a scout leader, a teacher, or a babysitter to touch them or treat them in a way that is inappropriate for any stranger to touch them.


Know where your children are. There is no excuse for a parent not to know where his or her child is at any given time. Technology can be used to help you, in this case; there are mobile phones with GPS tracking features that let you use the GPS satellites ringing the globe to locate your child via the Internet.


Have a protocol for strangers and for changes in routine. Teach your children the old fundamentals about never accepting anything from strangers (especially food and drink), not talking to strangers and not accepting rides from them. If you must diverge from your child’s routine and they are old enough to understand such things, you can teach them a code word that someone could use to establish their trustworthy credentials in case of emergencies. Guard such things carefully, and teach your children never to divulge the codes.


Never ignore or dismiss your child’s concerns. Children often do not report abuse because they don’t understand it or are not comfortable speaking about it. If they do express a concern in a roundabout way, always listen attentively and encourage your children to discuss their concerns in more detail.


Never allow a minor unsupervised access to a computer. Apart from the harmful things they might view when you’re not around, like pornography, your children are very vulnerable to being propositioned, stalked, bullied, or otherwise harassed when online, particularly when playing online games. Always supervise your child’s computer activity. Your child’s computer should be in a common area, not in a bedroom.


The sad fact of the modern age is that our technology makes it much easier for societal predators to target our children. Much worse is that the ruling of New York’s highest court will encourage and embolden such predators, who may well act out their desires with real victims after indulging their sick habits in secret.


While there have always been sex offenders and child molesters, it is more difficult than ever to protect your kids. At the same time, it is easier than ever for criminal adults to find, target and pursue your children. Given this, you must take the time and make the effort despite the challenges. Your kids may not always thank you for it, but the role of a parent is often a thankless one. You will know you are keeping them safe. That is all that matters.

Hi-yo Sharon Silver, away!

Today's lesson is on "How to perpetuate stranger danger and assume all men are potential sex predators" by Sharon Silver. Who is Sharon Silver? Well she runs some site called overreactive parenting.... oops I mean "proactive parenting." She mentions something about being on Oprah. Well that explains a lot. So Sharon Silver also writes on one of those mothering sites, "Circle of Moms." Today I was made aware of an article she wrote entitled "How to spot a child predator." The gist of the article is this, she spots some kids talking to some older man talking to some kids in a restaurant, assumes the man is a predator, confronts the poor guy, leaves the restaurant, and when she returns, he is gone, so this confirms her suspicion. Only thing is, a person falsely accused would have run off just as easily out of fear of being mistaken for a sex offender. Plus now the kids have been scared by this angry, shouting woman. It doesn't matter, she's sticking to her guns. Thankfully the message boards are filled with comments calling Sharon out on her BS.


How to Spot a Child Predator
By Sharon Silver - Apr 13, 2012


Imagine a really busy day at your favorite café. There’s a long line of people flowing out the door. The crowd’s chatter creates a deafening roar, the kind of noise that gives those in the café the illusion of privacy.


Above the roar I hear it. Where’s it coming from? Does everyone hear it, or am I the only one? Then I see him, an older male talking loudly at a table beside the open door.


My gaze moves from the man to a table on the other side of the open door. Two boys are laughing, seemingly delighted with the grown-up activity of eating alone.


Then I hear the man’s voice again. Why is he shouting above the roar of the crowd and asking the boys to solve addition problems? I decide the older man must be the one who brought the boys to lunch since this game of math is being played so effortlessly between them.


I retract my gaze and order my lunch. As I’m waiting, I feel compelled to observe the situation again. The man asks them what grade they’re in?


“3rd grade!” the chatty one proudly says. The other boy has gone silent. 


The man relentlessly continues throwing question after question at the boys. Who do you want to marry when you grow up? What’s your favorite subject in school? Who is your teacher? Do you like astronomy? What’s your favorite planet?


My name is being called to pick up my sandwich. Then, like a thunderbolt, it hits me! Those boys are being groomed. That man may be a predator!



I don’t want to believe it. I begin looking around for any reason why this man, who appears to be a stranger, is asking so many weird “get to know you” type questions. My mind wants to believe he’s just having fun. But my body has warning bells going off.


I move very quickly to the table where the boys are and ask, “Where are your parents?” The chatty boy loudly says what his dad’s name is, not where he is. The other boy remains silent; he won’t answer my question.


I look around hoping to see a parent getting up to tell me to mind my own business. I see no one.


As I shift my gaze from the crowd back to the boys I lock eyes with the older man. I purposefully linger in the gaze sending him the strong message, I know what you’re doing! You will not succeed here!


I promptly walk to the counter and say as loudly as I can, “Miss, I’m concerned about those two boys. They don’t seem to be with any adult. There’s a man over there, the one sitting by the door, asking them questions he shouldn’t be asking! Do you see them? Do you see the man? Please look after them and call the police if they leave with anyone other than a parent!”


I leave and go to my car. My husband looks at me and says:


“You need to go back in, don’t you?”


“Yes.”


When I return the man is gone! The boys are still eating and laughing. The waitress says, “I know his Dad, he’s on the way.”


Parents, I believe the older man was a potential predator. Am I sure? There was no way of knowing. Did I prevent him from harming those boys? I don’t know. I did what I could without falsely accusing someone of something that hadn’t happened yet.


All I do know was this man was asking the types of questions that predators ask. He was setting the stage, a.k.a. "grooming" the boys so he’d be familiar to them if he appeared again.


I’m not writing this so we can have a debate about how to deal with predators or situations like this. I wrote this so you’d read about the types of questions a potential predator uses so you can prepare your kids.


Please don’t scare your kids, but do talk to them. Use these, or examples like the, so your kids know what bad strangers ask so he can say, “Hey remember me, we had fun doing those math problems at the café didn’t we!” 

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang: Weapon of News Destruction

This is Chelsea Schilling, a reported for WND (WorldNetDaily). She is sounding the alarm. "Bombshell!", Chelsea explains. "Bombshell! America's favorite social network is child-predator playground."

WND seems to have issues with being fair and balanced. I think WND stands for Weapon of News Destruction, but that's just me.

The gist of her story-- Facebook is a "playground" for "child predators." She uses a few anecdotal examples from personal pages with less than 100 of the alleged 150,000,000 or so US Facebook users who are allegedly trading kiddie porn. Then she adds a bogus study that had been suppressed by the very agency that created it, because there were errors and the sample was limited to those who volunteered for a prison treatment program (which gave incentives for completion).

The second mistake was claiming Pedobear was a real symbol used by real pedophiles to identify each other (sadly, it isn't the first time). Should I notify Fark.com the great pedobear scare of 2010 has extended to 2012?

It could have been a great report had she stuck to facts and not sensationalism, but instead she made a Shiitake-Worthy

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/kids-raped-sodomized-on-facebook-pages/

WND EXCLUSIVE
KIDS RAPED, SODOMIZED ON FACEBOOK PAGES
Bombshell! America's favorite social network is child-predator playground
Published: 4 hours ago
by CHELSEA SCHILLING Email | Archive


Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series examining the dark side of Facebook. Part two comes tomorrow. Media wishing to interview WND’s Chelsea Schilling about this series, please contact us here.


(EXPLICIT CONTENT: This report contains graphic details of sexual abuse of children as it has appeared in numerous locations on Facebook. WND immediately reported images of child pornography and child sexual abuse to the FBI. Censored screenshots published are among the mildest of those found.)


She’s a tiny brunette with brown eyes, barely 10, and she’s naked – posing for the man who raped her and traded her photo like currency with thousands of insatiable predators on Facebook.


The girl doesn’t smile, because she knows what comes next. Her abuser will share photos and earn bragging rights from thousands of others just like him who will exchange their own titillating snapshots – often images uploaded from cell phones – of boys and girls they molest.


She’s beautiful. In fact, she could be your own daughter, or little sister. Her little curls dangle over her youthful skin. Her bare body is clearly underdeveloped. But she has become a tool for sex, an X-rated trading card, a means to arouse the world’s sexual deviants.


Discover who is behind the fall of Americans’ traditional sexual morality – and sanity! – with “Sexual Sabotage” from WND Books!


There are many more young girls and boys like her – not in some sleazy magazine from the back of an adult bookshop, not from some homemade videos in the red light district, not in the back alleys of Bangladesh, but on the pages of one of the most successful new Internet companies in the world.


Meet the dark underbelly of Facebook, an ubiquitous U.S.-based company making an initial public offering expected to value the company as high as $100 billion.




Graphic images of sexualized children under age 12 and adults raping young kids are traded among circles of pedophiles on Facebook. Censored screenshots published are among the mildest of those found.)


Another profile reveals a small boy, about 8, who looks much like a neighborhood Little League champion or Cub Scout. He’s been forced to undress on a bed and hold his ankles behind his head as his captor photographs his exposed genitals and anus.
One more boy, about 12, is lying face down on a bed as an adult male penetrates him. The photo is a mobile upload – likely taken by a third person in the room who observed the child’s rape and posted the image to Facebook with a cell phone.
On other pages, child-porn deviants share a photo of two naked girls who are kissing and fondling one another outdoors.  Yet another boy, who appears to be about 4, is receiving oral sex from a child roughly two years his senior.
Other children just like them are shown sodomizing one another – or being raped by adult men or women – in photos and video links of the abuse posted on Facebook. Entire albums of exploited boys and girls are visible to the public and shared with the click of a mouse.
Understand how you can protect yourself from being “Violated Online” with this important resource from WND Books.
On the Facebook user page called “Kidsex Young,” one man asks others, “Care to trade vids?” Another posts a video of a naked man fondling a baby on a bed.


One Facebook user identified as "Kidsex Young" quickly "friends" those with similar interests to trade photos and videos of abuse.


Profile of a Facebook predator


"PedoBear," a cartoon of a pedophiliac bear pedophiles use to identify each other on Facebook.


As part of an undercover news investigation, WND used alias Facebook profiles and located dozens of child-porn images after “friending” many likely pedophiles and predators who trade thousands of pornographic photos on the social network.


During the investigation, entire Facebook predator communities were easily spotted. Child pornographers use groups as meet-up points to find others with similar interests. Many of the offenders would list similar interests on their profile pages, including terms such as “Thirteen,” “Lolita,” “Justin Bieber,” “incest” and “PTHC (preteen hard-core pornography).” Their activities might include “Receiving nude pics,” and they subscribe to explicit Facebook fan pages posted in plain sight.


Send a flood of 1st-class mailed postcards to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, members of Facebook’s board and top-level management and staff telling them you want this criminal activity to stop.


In most cases, child-pornography traders and pedophiles have two kinds of friends: 1) sexual deviants who have similar interests and 2) unsuspecting children they’ve found and “friended” on Facebook. Many predators will establish a virtual relationship with a child, convince him or her to send provocative photos and even persuade the child to meet with them in person.


The following are actual groups and “likes” currently and/or previously available to site users around the world:


Kidsex Young
Preteen Lesbians
10-17 Teen Bisexual
Incest (2,119 “likes” on April 19, 2012)
PTHC (preteen hard-core pornography)
12 to 13 Boy Sex
Young Gay Pics and Movie Trade
Gangbanging
Hot and Teen Lesbians
Bl-wjob Fan Page (1,662 likes on April 20, 2012, mostly girls, some young-looking teens)
Young Lesbians
Teen Sex
Love Little Kids
I.ncest Forever
Menfor Babygirls
Sex Little Girls
Nude Teens
F–k Young Girls
F–k Young Boys


As the name suggests, “PedoBear” is a cartoon of a pedophiliac bear that many pedophiles use to identify each other. At the time of this report, there were 267,064 Facebook “likes” for dozens of pages filled with fan groups containing the term “PedoBear.”


There appears to be little policing of these groups by the social network.


Despite repeated requests, Facebook did not respond to phone calls and emails from WND about the numerous images, videos or explicit “like” groups favored by sexual deviants.


Michelle Collins is vice president for the exploited children division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC. The Department of Justice funds the nonprofit organization, which maintains a CyberTipline to receive child pornography reports and send the leads to appropriate law-enforcement agencies.


She told WND that NCMEC receives reports from all of the social networking companies.


“The law requires them, if they become aware of it, to report it,” Collins said. “With the global nature of this – and companies the size of Google and Facebook and others – they have individuals using their systems from every part of the globe. So, in many cases, we have received reports from the companies that actually indicate child pornography images were uploaded from [locations around the world]. … The average last year was about three days for the content to be removed.”


Asked whether Facebook’s explicit “likes” and interest groups might aggravate the problem by allowing thousands of child predators to interact and trade photos, Collins acknowledged, “Yes, there are key words that indicate that individuals with like-minded interests in children would be flocking to. … I think that’s a really good question.”


Behind the images


Most of these predators aren’t simply looking at child pornography images. In a 2007 Federal Bureau of Prisons study in which psychologists conducted an in-depth survey of online offenders’ sexual behavior, 85 percent of convicted Internet offenders said they had committed acts of sexual abuse against minors, from inappropriate touching to rape.


The U.S. Department of Justice explains: “In most child pornography cases, the abuse is not a one-time event, but rather ongoing victimization that progresses over months or years.  It is common for producers of child pornography to groom victims, or cultivate a relationship with a child and gradually sexualize the contact over time.  The grooming process fosters a false sense of trust and authority over a child in order to desensitize or break down a child’s resistance to sexual abuse.”


This photo was found in a photo album posted in one of many profiles for "PedoBear," a cartoon character pedophiles use to identify themselves.


Richard Lepoutre has been actively involved in the fight to protect children from sexual abuse for more than 25 years and is the co-founder of the fight against pedophiles on Facebook with the Stop Child Porn on Facebook campaign. He also wages the battle against commercial sexual exploitation through his work at the Stop Online Exploitation Campaign and Men Against Prostitution and Trafficking.


“It’s not just about images,” Lepoutre said. “In almost all cases, these images are associated with sexually abused children. We know that’s what’s going on. I would be careful not to characterize this as bad people taking pictures of semi-naked or naked little girls. It’s much more than that, because in almost all instances that picture-taking is very often the actual video or the actual photography of the rape of children.”


Lepoutre’s co-combatant in this battle against child pornography is Raymond Bechard, author of “The Berlin Turnpike: A True Story of Human Trafficking in America,” a historical examination of commercial sexual exploitation and its place within all American communities. Bechard also wrote “Unspeakable: The Truth Behind the World’s Fastest Growing Crime,” an expose of child trafficking around the globe. He launched Men Against Prostitution And Trafficking, the first anti-human trafficking political action committee in the U.S., and is co-founder of Stop Child Porn on Facebook.


In “The Berlin Turnpike,” Bechard explains: “Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have completely changed the game. Enormously popular – and growing every day – these free sites offer very powerful tools for men who are buying sex, pimps who are selling it, and pedophiles trading child pornography. In a brilliantly devious marketing ploy, pimps have used these sites in such a way that men no longer need to look for girls on the street corner or the Internet. Using social networking, the girls will come to them. …


“Far more blatant was the use of Facebook by pedophiles to connect with each other around the world in order to trade sexually explicit photos of young children – another form of human trafficking under U.S. law.”


In a Facebook group called "Forbidden Incest," a "teen girl" posts a request for a "loving dad" and gets plenty of takers.


Bechard notes that one Facebook profile in early 2011, under the fictitious name “Marcos Teia,” had more than 500 “friends” who exchanged photos. One of the first images in his gallery depicted a young girl just 6 or 7 years old.


“She was not smiling in the picture. With her head turned slightly to the right, she looked coyly at the lens. Her hair was coiffed in a highly stylized arrangement with green and yellow ribbons. Along with her makeup she was wearing lipstick, eyeliner and shadow. She was standing outside, a blue sky and unidentified foothills behind her. She was holding an inflatable Daffy Duck. She was completely naked.”


The collection was growing by the hour. After the “Marcos Teia” profile was reported, it temporarily disappeared and resurfaced quickly.
“One day he was on Facebook with hundreds of friends – whose profiles also exhibited sexually explicit photographs of children and adults on the social networking site – and the next day he was gone. A few days later he was back, eager to confirm friend requests from anyone.”
Bechard also stumbled upon the profile “Marcos Robson.”
“These photographs were explicit images of girls, appearing to range in ages between 3 and 9 years,” he explained. “The images showed these girls involved in vaginal, oral and anal sex acts. Some are bound with duct tape. According to the group’s Facebook wall, ‘sex little girls’ had 51 members and the number of photos posted had grown to 37, including one with what appeared to be a female newborn and the genitals of an adult male.”
Sexual deviants use pages like I.ncest Forever this to meet others with similar interests


Advertising child-porn sites


Bechard told WND child-pornography traders are profiting from posting links to their outside video galleries on Facebook.
“Many of these guys have hidden galleries and links to videos they have or have taken,” he said. “That’s the real money for them, in the videos.”
During the WND investigation, it was a common occurrence to find links to outside child-pornography websites with photos and video captions. The following are a few of those captions:


“Arabian boy f–k his neighbor 13 yo”
“Mom seduces son in bedroom”
“Arabian teacher rapes his student”
“Boys f–k each other”
“Arabian boy f–k his younger brother in the a–”
“Circumcision of boys”


The administrator for the group “Planet-of-Boys” posted a visitor advisory on his Facebook page:
“Enter Our Blog and Chat live wz people who love boyz share emails and links safely – you can got deleted if you do that on facebook but on our blog you will not got deleted and you can have fun all the time [sic].”


‘They had no idea this exists’
Bechard said one of the most difficult obstacles to overcome is public unawareness of child pornography on Facebook.
“One problem is the fact that very few people even know this problem exists,” he said. “Nobody knows about it.”
Bechard and Lepoutre informed congressional staffers, who work in the area of child abuse and commercial sex exploitation, of the child pornography on Facebook.
“They had no idea this exists, because they all, by their own admission, love Facebook,” Bechard said. “It’s helping them get elected or prevented others from getting elected. Everybody uses the thing.”

Samantha Manning, the dumbass-o from El Paso

Where does the Shiitake Awards keep finding these brainwashed twits? Like Visa, they're everywhere. This airhead is Samantha Manning of KFOX-14 out of El Paso, TX. I was expecting a blonde when someone sent me the screenshots.

Typical fearmongering BS, nothing special, until I read the second screenshot:

Another dumb reporter pimping the Adam Walsh Act. Do reporters ever do valid research any more? Apparently not. Below is original fear tactic article. Enjoy:

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/news/officials-work-correct-sex-offender-law-error/nNJyR/


Officials work to correct sex offender law error
By Samantha Manning

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A mistake in the law could mean there are child predators in New Mexico who aren't registered as sex offenders. 

Here's where the problem happened: In 2007, the state legislature passed a law making it a crime to solicit sex of a child through electronics. But in that same session, they passed another law amending the sex offender statute and didn't include the new law about soliciting sex from a child through electronics. 

Therefore, people who went after kids on the Internet or with their cell phones weren't always registering as sex offenders even though they should have, according to Gov. Susana Martinez. 

"It's a scary thought," Las Cruces parent Tina Hall said. 

Hall is a mother of five and said that she's appalled at the thought that child predators may unknowingly walk among us. 

"Everyday we just let our kids run around outside and we don't even know who our neighbor is," Hall said. 

"It was just an error, a glitch in the compilation of the law," Martinez said. "It's unclear on the books." 

That's why Martinez said she sent a letter to district attorneys and judges across the state urging them to enforce this law, despite how unclear it may appear. 

"Unfortunately, these circumstances have led many to believe that this crime is not one for which offenders must register in the state," Martinez wrote. "This is not the case, and individuals who commit these crimes must register as a sex offender in New Mexico." 

The crime can include someone trying to lure a child to a meeting place online with the intention of carrying out a sexual act or even texting a lewd photograph. 

"Using any kind of communication device, whether it's texting, email, Facebook," Martinez said. 

Still, Martinez said that some would-be registered sex offenders could have slipped under the radar already. 

"For all I know I could be living right next door to one with my kids," Hall said. "That's kind of a scary thought."

Flogging the Brian Bishop

This is Brian Bishop of WCYB 5 News in Virginia. It must be sweeps week so he decided to pick on a homeless registrant for the sake of ratings.. I must say, I'm glad the interviewee told Bishop off. Hearing Bishop's redneck accent is laughable. I suppose I should be satisfied he stopped short of the "P" word but I'm not.

http://www.wcyb.com/news/30947124/detail.html


Convicted Sex Offender Found Living In Walmart Parking Lot
By Brian Bishop
POSTED: 11:34 am EDT April 24, 2012


BRISTOL, Va. -- A convicted sex offender sounded off after we found him living in a department store parking lot.
We discovered he gave Virginia authorities the address of a local Walmart as his legal residence. We wanted to know how he did that, so we paid him a visit and found out the store management didn't even know he was there.
Parents are always told to keep a close eye in their kids in public. It turns out a man with a criminal past has been living in a very busy place and no one seemed to know.
"You guys don't deserve to be here with your cameras," the man said after we knocked on the door of his RV. "See what I am getting at? Mind your own business, world."
The man's name is Doug Young, and he wasn't too happy to see us. Young is a convicted sex offender found guilty of three counts of child molestation back in 1985 in Georgia.
Young denies those charges to this day. "I don't think it's fair because people point at you and say 'sex offender, you are dirt. Hey everybody, gossip gossip gossip,'" he said.
Young first came to our attention through a news tip. We checked him out on the Virginia sex offender registry and found he listed his address on Lee Highway. We checked that address and confirmed he was living in an RV on the edge of a Walmart parking lot.
We knocked on his door to ask him about it. "If you haven't walked a mile in my shoes, stay out of my shoes. And stay out of my face," he said. "I am sick and tired of people looking at me and saying I am some sort of pervert. You don't even know me, you don't even know the truth. It's all lies. So give us a break will you?"
Virginia officials tell us they knew where he was, but the Bristol Walmart store manager told us he didn’t know he had set up the RV in their parking lot.
Store manager Greg Cunningham told us they do allow some truckers to park and rest there overnight. "We do allow people to stop and get rest and spend the night, both truck drivers and campers," he explained. "We have quite a few who take advantage of that."
Walmart officials say tractor trailers and RVs are welcome to use their parking lots to get a night's rest. However, when we showed them the Virginia state press release regarding Mr. Young, they assured us they will immediately notify authorities and let them know that this is not his permanent address.
Young did admit to living in the parking lot, but said he never asked for permission to live there. He says he did give authorities the correct address because he was living there.
"You don't have to go out there and tell the public and put people on TV just because they made a stinking mistake," he said. "Get off our backs. The people served time for what they did. [I] deserve after 29 years to be off this stuff."
We contacted Virginia officials about why they didn't know Young was living in the parking lot. After we brought it to their attention, they said they're looking into the matter.
Here's another twist -- Mr. Young had moved his RV by the time we'd finished filming. Since our story, Mr. Young has moved to a nearby campground and he was quick to give authorities his new address.
We will have more on this story and examine the laws on where he was living Tuesday evening on News 5 at 6.


UPDATE: The news station was later schooled by the State Police. Bishop had to eat crow:

http://www.wcyb.com/news/30954270/detail.html


Sex Offender Registry Rules Explained
By Brian Bishop
POSTED: 12:36 pm EDT April 25, 2012


BRISTOL, Va. -- On Monday we found convicted sex offender Doug Young living in his RV in a Walmart parking lot.
As the story unfolded, it turns out Virginia State Police and state statutes have no problem with that; police say Young has done nothing wrong.
Doug Young was not happy to see us when we showed up at his RV parked at the Walmart on Lee Highway. We had received a tip from a concerned viewer who said a sex offender was living there.
We went to check and found the RV. He was convicted in 1985 of child sex abuse. He told us he served his time, but denied the crimes.
A Walmart manager told us he had no idea Young was living there. He wondered how a registered sex offender could end up living in such a public place with so many people around.
While it may be surprising to you, it is perfectly legal. We spoke to Public Relations Manager Corinne Geller of the Virginia State Police, and she explained nothing was wrong. "It does happen from time to time. We have a sex offender living under an overpass in the city of Richmond so we have the nearest physical address listed on the website," she said. "We also have one offender who has taken up residency in the national forest and as long as we have the address, he can do that."
Geller says the state did know where he was living and a trooper had been checking on him twice a year. Young was located just where he listed on the state registry -- at the address on Lee Highway. It doesn't matter that it is a parking lot.
"The Virginia Sex Offender Registry is regulated by the legislature," Geller explained. "The legislators are the ones who dictate what is on there for the registrants and for state police to maintain the registry."
Virginia law, and a similar one in Tennessee, says sex offenders can live where they want with restrictions on places where children gather like schools, parks and churches.
We spoke with Commonwealth's Attorney Jerry Wolfe about the matter. "As long as that person reports a valid address, that is all that is required by the statute," he said. "It is my understanding from your report that it had been done in this case. It just happened that the individual gave and address that is a business. The business did not know he was there, but the state knew. That's exactly where you found him."
Now Young has another address, as he's moved to a campground. We're told he was quick to notify authorities of his address change.
Perhaps there, he'll get what he told us he wants -- just to be left alone.
Here's another fact we found out from the state police: troopers don't have any responsibility to inform a business if a sex offender is living in their parking lot.

Abbie Alford puts the "Dirty" in Operation Dirty Dozen

She may have a light, but she doesn't have a clue.

This isn't Abbie Alford's first appearance on the Annual Shiitake Awards. In 2009, she was nominated for claiming "pedophiles" were going to comic book conventions dressed as the internet meme "Pedobear". She lost, but she's now the first media hound to get a nod after losing and missing a year. How does she still have a job, anyways? She fails miserably at journalism. Watching her heckle the guy arrested in her article made me think I was watching Jerry Springer.

http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Operation-Dirty-Dozen-Tulsas-wanted-sex-offenders/xfM-fQ6ktU-MhYtCwVVeKw.cspx?rss=77

Operation Dirty Dozen: Tulsa's wanted sex offenders

Reported by: Abbie Alford Email: aalford@fox23.com

Updated: 3/29 11:54 pm

Published: 3/28 6:06 pm

Tulsa area law enforcement is tracking down sex offenders in hiding.

The U.S. Marshals, Tulsa Police Fugitive and Warrants Team (Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force) and TPD Exploitation Unit teamed up to target Tulsa’s most wanted sex offenders.

In an exclusive FOX23 report law enforcement tracked down the 106 unregistered sex offenders and wanted for other crimes.  FOX23 News talked to law enforcement and sex offenders.

Police say more than one in five convicted sex offenders in Tulsa is essentially in hiding.

The Tulsa Police Department sex offender registration map shows a few white pockets where Tulsa’s 454 convicted sex offenders can legally live and register.

Tulsa Police Exploitation Sergeant John Adams reports there are 348 sex offenders registered in Tulsa; that means 106 are delinquent.

Convicted sex offenders cannot live within two thousand feet of parks, playgrounds, licensed daycares and schools,  and that’s the reason they say they won’t register.

"Tulsa Police, U.S. Marshals if you are inside you need to announce yourself,” said U.S. Marshal Deputy Chad Hunt.

Donald L. Lareaux, 41, was convicted of fondling children in 2004. He hasn’t registered since he got out of prison in 2010.

However, law enforcement tracked him down hiding in his brother’s house.

"Donald, U.S. Marshals come to the front door,” said Hunt.

After about five minutes, Lareaux comes out and he’s cuffed.

Lareaux tries to explain why he registered a fake address.

Hunt: "Why didn't you register?”

Lareaux: "I feel like the laws are little bit stringent and if they made it easier to do. I would do it… More places to live, that's the whole problem that everybody deals with."

U.S. Marshals and the Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force stake out a level three sex offender near 21^st and 145^th E. Avenue.

David E. Collins, Jr., 38, is one of 106 convicted sex offenders living in Tulsa, but won’t tell police where they live. 

"You got to register. When was the last time you registered?" asked Hunt.

Prison records show it’s been two years since Collins registered and it wasn’t where law enforcement found him.

Collins didn’t want to answer question asked by FOX23’s Abbie Alford. (He shouldn't have to, bitch)

Collins: "It's hard to do it. I don't want to do it."

Alford “People need to know where sex offenders live.” (Um, no they don't)

Collins: “I didn't hurt anybody.”

Alford “Didn't you get convicted of rape?” (Again, none of your business, he did his time, bitch)

Collins: “I’m not answering any questions."

Under the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry Act, convicted sex offenders have three days to register with local law enforcement after being released from prison.

Depending on the level a sex offender is categorized as, he or she may be required to register every three, six or twelve months.

An Oklahoma proposal being considered in the state house would prohibit sex offenders convicted of abusing a child under 13 from living with a minor. It would exclude sex offenders from living with their child or grandchild, as long as the child was not the victim.

HB 3049 is sponsored by Representative Mike Sanders (R-Kingfisher) and Senator Bryce Marlatt (R-Woodward). It has been approved by the House and is waiting for approval from the Senate.

There were 105 warrants for failure to register.

Sergeant Adams reports over the three-day operation they arrested 11 convicted sex offenders in Tulsa.

They also located eighteen sex offenders who were in custody in another jurisdiction, one was in Oklahoma City.

There were 38 registered sex offenders located in another state but still have outstanding warrants in Tulsa. Three were deported by Immigration Customs Enforcement and seven passed away.

The U.S. Marshall's Office will be working with the DA's Office to determine what to do with the 38 located out of state and the 18 in custody at other jurisdictions.