Teenage girls teach FBI how to act...

[zakur]

... like teenage girls. Girls Teach Teen Cyber Gab to FBI Agents (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10052-2003Jun3.html)

As undercover assignments go, posing as a teenage girl online to catch pedophiles has its share of challenges for the typical FBI agent.

Should he ever capitalize words in instant messages?

Is it okay to say you buy your clothes at 5-7-9?

And what about Justin Timberlake? Is he still hot or is he so two years ago?

For those investigative details, the FBI calls on Karen, Mary and Kristin -- Howard County eighth-graders and best friends.

During the past year, the three have been teaching agents across the country how to communicate just like teenage girls, complete with written quizzes on celebrity gossip and clothing trends and assigned reading in Teen People and YM magazines. The first time the girls gave a quiz, all the agents failed.

"They, like, don't know anything," said Mary, 14, giggling.

"They're, like, do you like Michael Jackson?" said Karen, 14, rolling her eyes at just how out of it adults can be.

[malaka]

I thought "pos" stood for something completely different. :)

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by zakur
... like teenage girls.

Ok, what I find strange about the article:

- Not that stopping people from molesting children is a bad thing, but are these programs that effective? Are there better ways to catch offenders? Better public education, more use of local law enforcement, more resources allocated to stopping abuse within families, etc.
- Are the pedofiles who actually do the chatting aware of all the 'teen trends'?
- How many pedofiles actually believe that the 'hot teen' they are chatting with is really a 'hot teen' and not some FBI agent, or some 50 year old married dentist from ohio. (Note: Not picking on dentists here...) As the old cartoon said, "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
- They withhold the girls names, yet they publish pictures of them, along with their location.

[malaka]

Originally posted by Segnosaur


or some 50 year old married dentist from ohio. (Note: Not picking on dentists here...)

Whats wrong with Ohio?!

;)

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by malaka


Whats wrong with Ohio?!

;)


Well, Cleaveland for one.

And another, they don't seem to understand evolution....

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/ocean/050803EVOLUTION08.html

But I think the best thing to say that it's Ohio.

[zakur]

Originally posted by Segnosaur
- How many pedofiles actually believe that the 'hot teen' they are chatting with is really a 'hot teen' and not some FBI agent, or some 50 year old married dentist from ohio. (Note: Not picking on dentists here...) As the old cartoon said, "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."It's funny you mention Ohio...

One of our local police departments — Xenia, Ohio — is the leader in arresting these pedophiles. They even train other police departments on techniques. Every now and then we hear on the news about some idiot who shows up in Xenia thinking he's going to nail some fresh teenager, only to get arrested for "attempted corruption of minors, importuning, and attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor." It surprises me every time I hear about one because the Xenia PD is so well known for this.

Here is an article about them:Xenia police play roles to trap online predators (http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/02/21/loc_xenia_police_play.html)

XENIA — The man asks if the girl likes older guys. “I'm 42,” the man says in the anonymity of an Internet chat room.

“I'm 13,” the girl — who is not really a girl — tells him on the Internet. “Do you mind that I'm 13?”

He doesn't mind, of course not. He says he's from Baltimore and he's had sex with a girl from Columbus who is 12.

“We want to get his computer,” says Xenia Police Detective Alonzo Wilson, who has been chatting with the man since January, and is online with him now. “He's done a young girl in Columbus.”

From a room with a computer at the Xenia police station, and from their own computers set up in their homes, Detectives Wilson and Darrin Barlow wage war on men who are looking for underage girls and boys.

They head up a special unit of the police department called the Internet Child Protection Unit. Since last April they've arrested and charged 17 men with attempted corruption of minors, importuning, and attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

The men who were arrested thought they were meeting underage teens they had met on the Internet. The arrested range in age from 19 to 60, with the average age about 39. Many of them come from Ohio, but they've also flown in from Massachusetts and Texas. They've come west from Maryland, from Pittsburgh.

The most recent, David Akers, arrested Sunday, drove up from Nicholasville, Ky. He was charged with attempted unlawful sexual conduct. Police said he thought he was meeting a young girl in the parking lot of a motel here.

Instead, he met Detective Wilson.

One man, a grandfather, came to Xenia with Viagra in his pocket. Another was already unbuttoning his pants by the time he pulled his truck into the parking lot for the rendezvous.

[jj]

Originally posted by malaka


Whats wrong with Ohio?!

;)


Nothing, good place to be from .

:p

[malaka]

Originally posted by Segnosaur



Well, Cleaveland for one.

And another, they don't seem to understand evolution....

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/ocean/050803EVOLUTION08.html

But I think the best thing to say that it's Ohio.

Whew! I'm from Columbus and understand evolution.

Originally posted by jj

Nothing, good place to be from


:) I'm born and raised and live here. However, my guess is that Ohio was founded by lazy settlers on their way west. "Whew, I'm beat! Lets just camp here." Next thing you know...

In the same vein, I think that folks today settle here because of missed flights. :)

No one comes here on purpose.

[Yahzi]

One of our local police departments — Xenia, Ohio
All I remember about Xenia was the tornado that trashed the town about 25 years ago.

[darling]

Originally posted by Segnosaur
- How many pedofiles actually believe that the 'hot teen' they are chatting with is really a 'hot teen'... Head on over to www.baiting.org and find out :D