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Naughton Caught Disney Jet To LA
News Naughton, of Seattle, Washington, is charged with crossing state lines with the intent to have sex with a minor, using the Internet to set up the meeting, and possessing child porn. As opening statements commenced in the trial of Patrick Naughton...
[December 8, 1999, 9:39]
MySpace NoShow. And No Larry Either!
Blog Kevin Poulsen, journalist and security expert, has just told the RSA Conference 2007 about how he exposed that child sex offenders were using the MySpace social networking site to contact children. But for the record, MySpace is backing a proposed...
[February 7, 2007, 22:36]
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre In Child-porn Sweep
News Hundreds of people across Australia will be prosecuted for child sex offences following the nation's largest ever crackdown on online child pornography. More than 150 people have already been charged with 2,000 offences including child sex tourism...
[October 1, 2004, 13:00]
Anonymous Email Could Be Abolished
News The Committee for Citizen's Freedoms Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, will advise the European Parliament on Monday to ban the use of anonymous email in order to increase online surveillance of those convicted of child sex offences across Europe.
[April 10, 2000, 14:31]
US Sex Offenders' Registries Hit The Net
News ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) spokesman on child protection Chief Constable Tony Butler believes publishing sex offenders whereabouts on the Net would be a retrograde step. About once a month, Kelleher clicks on the Web site of the...
[August 19, 1999, 14:23]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part I
News As far as the authorities were concerned, Naughton had to answer to charges of travelling to solicit sex with a minor and of possessing child pornography. Naughton, a top executive at Disney's Go Network venture, had been arrested on the pier in...
[March 21, 2000, 13:52]
Naughton Looks Set To Escape Prison
News The government is asking a judge to keep sealed another document that gives details of Naughton's assistance, saying that releasing it will "substantially impede the government's ability to locate and prosecute child sex offenders".
[August 9, 2000, 9:54]
Naughton Lawyers Try Role-playing Defence
News Naughton also is charged with using the Internet to try to solicit sex with a minor and possessing child pornography. Naughton, 34, a Silicon Valley Wunderkind who lead Java development at Sun Microsystems before heading Disney's Internet ventures...
[December 8, 1999, 6:00]
FBI Interview With ZDNet News: Innocent Images
News The investigation led to a couple who had been using the Internet to lure children into having sex and putting pictures of children engaging in sexual activities online. With the chat rooms, we target people who are prepared to travel to have sex...
[March 22, 1999, 10:41]
Home Office Commits Gaffe Over Entrapment
News The FBI passed his details on to the paedophile unit at New Scotland Yard, who arrested him after Lockley paid undercover officers £200 for sex with a child. He was given an 18-month sentence, despite being the first person in Britain to be charged...
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
CEO: Naughton Said 'I Did It'
News So far, the government has put seven witnesses on the stand in its attempt to prove Naughton solicited sex with a minor and possessed child porn. Motro, appearing as a witness for the prosecution, said he tried to track down Naughton after learning...
[December 9, 1999, 10:27]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part VIII
News Meeting a child for sex is. As with many studies claiming to detect "addiction", including TV addiction and sex addiction, the criteria for defining Net addiction are subject to wide interpretation. In fact, Greenfield said, the FBI's approach may...
[March 21, 2000, 14:03]
Naughton Jury: Cops 'screwed Up'
News Prosecutors are still deciding whether they will re-file against Naughton charges of travelling across state lines in an attempt to have sex with a minor and using the Internet to set up the meeting. After the proceedings ended, Naughton attorney...
[December 17, 1999, 8:42]
Web Of Porn: The Business Of Porn - Part 1
News And as he stresses, with the more serious issue of child porn, Internet Watch is not really bothered about two consenting adults having cyber sex. Just as adult movies helped drive the growth of video recorders so sex has helped fuel the growth of...
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
13-year-old Put On Register For Internet Paedophilia
News A 13-year-old boy was put on the sex offenders' register, on Monday, for two-and-a-half years, after a UK-wide paedophile swoop found more than 300 paedophilic images on his home computer. Contrary to reports, Greater Manchester's Obscene...
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
FBI Nets Scottish Web Paedophile
News A Scottish university lecturer faces a 15-year jail sentence after an FBI sting operation caught him travelling to America to have sex with a boy he met over the Internet. Dr David Steinheimer, 38, used sexually explicit emails and pornographic...
[March 12, 2001, 11:19]
Misleading URLs May Become Illegal
News The US House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Thursday about a proposal that would criminalise using misleading domain names to lure unsuspecting people to sex sites. The Amber Alert bill encountered modest opposition when House Judiciary...
[March 27, 2003, 10:12]
Child Charities Unite Against Yahoo! Chat
News She explained "sex can be a giggly thing for children to talk about, but what starts as fun can be damaging to a child's life". I think they should act immediately to put the safety of the child before anything else.
[November 13, 2000, 9:55]
Jury Deciding Naughton's Fate
News Naughton, 34, of Seattle faces up to 40 years in prison on charges he travelled across state lines with the intent to have sex with a minor, used the Internet to entice a minor into having sex, and possessed child pornography.
[December 13, 1999, 8:14]
Law Makes Scotland Attractive To Net Paedophiles, Says Expert
News The sex crime expert Ray Wyre has condemned the lack of consistency between English and Scottish child pornography law as "crazy". A leading criminal psychologist has warned that Internet paedophiles may move to Scotland to take advantage of weaker...
[October 24, 2001, 10:08]
