FONTANA, Calif. - A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an Internet prank ended up helping police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, authorities said.
The five boys had created a fake profile of a girl on MySpace.com — a social networking Web site — to cheer up a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend.
But soon, a man began sending messages to the “girl” and their conversations began to have sexual overtones, said Fontana police Sgt. William Megenney.
The man also sent the “girl” his picture and arranged to meet her at a public park. The boys went to the park and, when the man arrived, they called police.
Michael Ramos, 48, of Fontana, was booked into West Valley Detention Center on Monday for investigation of felony attempted lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and for an outstanding warrant, Megenney said.
He was being held at the West Valley Detention Center on $105,000 bail, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Web site.
A dispatcher who answered the telephone at the center early Tuesday said the facility does not allow phone interviews with inmates. It was not immediately known whether Ramos had a lawyer.
Two men were arrested last week in what prosecutors said were the first federal sexual assault charges involving MySpace. The unrelated cases involved Connecticut girls who were 11 and 14, the FBI said.
concernedheart says:
Thousands of us may have a Myspace.com's account.Hopefully this case will be a lesson for us to be aware of strangers who we meet thru online messages and thru online chat rooms.
Never make a decision to send your photo to strangers thru emails,messengers and etc-you will never know what are they up to and it may be noxious to your safety once this strangers recognise you.
Once again,never fall for sweet words-the person may type many wonderful words to make u as a prey of lust.There is no reason for a stranger to be sweet to you unless he is up to something negative or trying to impress you to fall for his/her trap.
If a online contact calls you out after a few messages or conversations,please reject their invitation immediately-you don't even have to reason out why,its concerning your safety,try to avoid this person from further messaging or chatting because they may keep on bugging your life.
Its simple-just BLOCK them from your contact.
Parents should play a major role concerning this social problem.They should always monitor their kids' activities and their contacts as well.
Children may get easily irritated when their parent interferes with their activities,this is where parents should be smart to handle their kids rather than showing their superiority as parents by scolding them or beating them-its useless.
A smart and loving parenthood starts when a child is treated like a good friend(being more casual with their kids),thru this a deeper and easier understanding achieved between parents and children therefore children will never tend to be secretive.
Lately there many internet social network sevice accenting on friendship or on making new friends ,we can never escape from signing up for any one of it since our friends or batch mates might be having an account.Its a good idea and opportunity to keep your friend's contact in more organised form but please be cautious of the new people who contacts you...never trust them or their identity as they may just lie/have a fake account to catch your attention.
Be prudent from getting cheated by online contacts,avoid strangers,never give out your details to them.
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