It was MySpace turning over 90,000 sex offender’s names yesterday and now Facebook has its own sex crime to deal with. The social network Facebook caters to an adult fan base, where as MySpace is a stomping ground for mostly teens.
MILWAUKEE – An 18-year-old male student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts.
“The kind of manipulation that occurred here is really sinister in my estimation,” Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel said Wednesday.
The students go to New Berlin Eisenhower High School in New Berlin, which is in Waukesha County about 15 miles west of Milwaukee.
Anthony Stancl, of New Berlin, was charged Wednesday with five counts of child enticement, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, possession of child pornography, repeated sexual assault of the same child, and making a bomb threat.
Stancl’s attorney, Craig Kuhary, said Stancl plans to plead not guilty to the charges and hopes to reach a plea agreement with the district attorney
“It’s too early in the case for me to make a statement, other than the fact at some point we are going to go into events that had taken place earlier that might have had some impact on what he did here,” he said. He wouldn’t go into specifics.
The incidents allegedly happened from spring 2007 through November, when officers questioned Stancl about a bomb threat he allegedly sent to teachers and wrote about on a school’s bathroom wall. It resulted in the closing of New Berlin Eisenhower Middle and High School.
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That’s a yukky story. I interned in that very same high school way back when I was getting my master’s degree. And that place was the reason why I didn’t keep working in a high school but went back to warm, fuzzy elementary schools!
Deborah,
It sure is and parents need to be aware of what and who their teens are chatting with online. Did you see our featured site this week? Check out the main page top right side bar.
Frank,
How would you propose to do this? My children wouldn’t share their affiliations with me, and I’m not willing to use force to get that information.
There are tools that will monitor there key strokes especially for chat programs. If this sounds extreme maybe a sit down to make them aware of what has recently been reported in the news. It’s important that they don’t share personal information with anyone no matter how much they chatted with a person.