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Feds: Online 'sextortion' of teens on the rise
.ap ^ | Aug 14

Posted on 08/14/2010 11:51:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts. A week later, one of the girls, a 17-year-old from Indiana, started getting threatening e-mails.

A stranger said he had captured her image on the webcam and would post the pictures to her MySpace friends unless she posed for more explicit pictures and videos for him.......

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: sextortion

United States Marshals Service shows Trevor Shea of Mechanicsville, Md. Shea was indicted June 9 on federal charges of sexual extortion after allegedly threatening to post racy webcam photos of an Indiana teen to her MySpace friends unless she posed for more explicit pictures. His trial is set for Aug. 30. He has pleaded not guilty and his attorney, Michael Donahoe, said he is working on a possible settlement.


1 posted on 08/14/2010 11:51:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts.

Seemed like such a good idea at the time...

2 posted on 08/14/2010 11:55:41 AM PDT by Drew68
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three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts.

Seemed like such a good idea at the time...

Sounds like the basis of the next Michael Moore ‘documentary’ - “The Sluts Meet The Nut”.


3 posted on 08/14/2010 12:07:32 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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That young man has a brilliant future ahead of him in Hollywood.


4 posted on 08/14/2010 12:15:23 PM PDT by sphinx
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Oh, this is gonna do wonders for your employment prospects, Ace.


5 posted on 08/14/2010 12:17:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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Cut off his toy.


6 posted on 08/14/2010 12:35:01 PM PDT by Surrounded_too (Robot machine guns and the Dirty Dozen)
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Tip: As long as you pose for stills, you can always scream “Photoshop” later. Videos are tougher to shrug off.


7 posted on 08/14/2010 1:11:47 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Those poor girls, such upstanding young people as they are. /s


8 posted on 08/14/2010 1:37:01 PM PDT by Ktulu
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