Dangers children face online
Dateline hidden camera investigation turns spotlight on Internet predators
Instant messaging on the computer has become the phone for kids today. Children spend hours chatting online with their friends, and sometimes with strangers. A recent study found that one in five children online is approached by a sexual predator, a predator who may try to set up a face-to-face meeting. In a Dateline hidden camera investigation, correspondent Chris Hansen catches some of these men in the act. Also, scroll to the bottom of the page for the software mentioned in the story and more resources.
To follow the trail of an Internet predator prowling for children, from seduction in a chat room to a face-to-face meeting, Dateline rented a house, wired it with hidden cameras, and enlisted the help of an online vigilante group called "Perverted Justice." Volunteers from the group posed as teens in chat rooms, saying they were home alone and interested in sex. Within hours there were men literally lining up at our door.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6083442/
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Ice jam causes flooding
Ice Jam and Flooding on Muskegon River
February 21, 2009
Stanwood - Big Rapids Police have confirmed that an ice jam on the Muskegon River has posed a flooding threat to homes along the river. Police say that they have offered Red Cross assistance to anyone that feels they need to evacuate their homes. So far, no one has taken them up on that offer.
Police say that there have been reports of basement flooding in the area.
Stanwood resident Stan Karwoski says that it has been an on-going problem with the river rising and falling. He said that Saturday morning it rose pretty high. He took pictures from his home in Stanwood.
Karwoski's home is on higher ground. The pictures show flooding that is happening to homes on lower ground adjacent to the Muskegon River.
http://www.wxmi.com/pages/news_landing_page/?Ice-Jam-and-Flooding-on-Muskegon-River=1&blockID=219825&feedID=2515
February 21, 2009
Stanwood - Big Rapids Police have confirmed that an ice jam on the Muskegon River has posed a flooding threat to homes along the river. Police say that they have offered Red Cross assistance to anyone that feels they need to evacuate their homes. So far, no one has taken them up on that offer.
Police say that there have been reports of basement flooding in the area.
Stanwood resident Stan Karwoski says that it has been an on-going problem with the river rising and falling. He said that Saturday morning it rose pretty high. He took pictures from his home in Stanwood.
Karwoski's home is on higher ground. The pictures show flooding that is happening to homes on lower ground adjacent to the Muskegon River.
http://www.wxmi.com/pages/news_landing_page/?Ice-Jam-and-Flooding-on-Muskegon-River=1&blockID=219825&feedID=2515
Three children missing Wednesday
Three children end up missing Wednesday in Rancho Cucamonga
Jannise Johnson, Staff Writer
Created: 02/20/2009 12:58:09 PM PST
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Three children were reported missing Wednesday in the city - providing investigating deputies with an out of the ordinary evening.
The Rancho Cucamonga station for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in 2007 responded to an average of one call a month for a missing child, and few of the calls required deputies to file a report, said Tracy Dorsey, spokeswoman for the sheriff's station.
"So three in one night is very unusual," Dorsey said.
The searches on Wednesday resulted in the Sheriff's Department setting up a command post and having to use a helicopter.
The children all returned home safely.
• A 10-year-old boy was reported missing about 5:30 p.m. from Ruth Musser Middle School in the 10700 block of Terra Vista Parkway, according to the release.
The boy told authorities he had been bullied at school and was afraid to take his usual route home. He decided to leave through a different gate, but became disoriented. The boy got scared and hid in bushes for seven hours. He was found by a resident in a nearby apartment to the north of the school, according to the news release.
• A 9-year-old boy was reported missing about 5:30 p.m. after he failed to return home from Cucamonga Elementary School in the 8600 block of Archibald Avenue. The boy decided to walk to his grandmother's house in Fontana after he could not get into his own house. No one was at the home and the doors were
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locked. The boy was returned to his mother unharmed.
• A 15-year-old developmentally-disabled girl had attended an after-school activity and forgot to tell her mother. She was reported missing at 7 p.m. from Etiwanda High School at 13500 Victoria St. and returned home an hour later, according to a sheriff's news release.
The Sheriff's Department used A Child is Missing to get the word out on the missing children. The Florida-based ACIM sends out a recorded message to city residents with information about the missing child. A Child is Missing was founded in 1997 because no community-based program existed for locating children, the disabled and the elderly during the first hours of their disappearance, according to the nonprofit's Web site.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_11749839
Jannise Johnson, Staff Writer
Created: 02/20/2009 12:58:09 PM PST
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Three children were reported missing Wednesday in the city - providing investigating deputies with an out of the ordinary evening.
The Rancho Cucamonga station for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in 2007 responded to an average of one call a month for a missing child, and few of the calls required deputies to file a report, said Tracy Dorsey, spokeswoman for the sheriff's station.
"So three in one night is very unusual," Dorsey said.
The searches on Wednesday resulted in the Sheriff's Department setting up a command post and having to use a helicopter.
The children all returned home safely.
• A 10-year-old boy was reported missing about 5:30 p.m. from Ruth Musser Middle School in the 10700 block of Terra Vista Parkway, according to the release.
The boy told authorities he had been bullied at school and was afraid to take his usual route home. He decided to leave through a different gate, but became disoriented. The boy got scared and hid in bushes for seven hours. He was found by a resident in a nearby apartment to the north of the school, according to the news release.
• A 9-year-old boy was reported missing about 5:30 p.m. after he failed to return home from Cucamonga Elementary School in the 8600 block of Archibald Avenue. The boy decided to walk to his grandmother's house in Fontana after he could not get into his own house. No one was at the home and the doors were
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locked. The boy was returned to his mother unharmed.
• A 15-year-old developmentally-disabled girl had attended an after-school activity and forgot to tell her mother. She was reported missing at 7 p.m. from Etiwanda High School at 13500 Victoria St. and returned home an hour later, according to a sheriff's news release.
The Sheriff's Department used A Child is Missing to get the word out on the missing children. The Florida-based ACIM sends out a recorded message to city residents with information about the missing child. A Child is Missing was founded in 1997 because no community-based program existed for locating children, the disabled and the elderly during the first hours of their disappearance, according to the nonprofit's Web site.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_11749839
Boy jealous of dads new love.
Boy, 11, charged with killing father's fiancee, who was 8 months pregnant - jealous of dad's love
BY Elizabeth Hays
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, February 21st 2009, 5:00 PM
Kenzie Houk, 8 months pregnant, was shot to death in her bed. Her fiancee's 11-year-old son has been charged. WTAE-TV
An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy consumed with jealousy was charged with killing his father's fiancee - who was 8 months pregnant, police and relatives said.
Relatives said the youngster shot 26-year-old Kenzie Houk in her bed in the family's farmhouse in Wampum, Pa., because he was envious of the couple's unborn son, due in two weeks.
"It's tragic," said a relative who did not want their name used. "They were to be married. He was jealous.
Lawrence County police said the boy was charged with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child.
Distraught family told the Daily News that cops said the boy shot Houk sometime around 8 a.m. Friday with his own youth-model shotgun.
He then calmly caught the bus to school with Houk's 8-year-old daughter, they said. His father, identified by family members as Chris Brown, was at work at the time.
"Chris was paying more attention to Kenzie and the new boy coming along so he was upset," said another relative.
Houk's body was discovered later that morning by her 4-year-old daughter, who ran out of the house crying, the relatives said.
The girl flagged down tree trimmers working near the house, about 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, and they called 911.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/02/21/2009-02-21_boy_11_charged_with_killing_fathers_fian.html
BY Elizabeth Hays
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, February 21st 2009, 5:00 PM
Kenzie Houk, 8 months pregnant, was shot to death in her bed. Her fiancee's 11-year-old son has been charged. WTAE-TV
An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy consumed with jealousy was charged with killing his father's fiancee - who was 8 months pregnant, police and relatives said.
Relatives said the youngster shot 26-year-old Kenzie Houk in her bed in the family's farmhouse in Wampum, Pa., because he was envious of the couple's unborn son, due in two weeks.
"It's tragic," said a relative who did not want their name used. "They were to be married. He was jealous.
Lawrence County police said the boy was charged with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child.
Distraught family told the Daily News that cops said the boy shot Houk sometime around 8 a.m. Friday with his own youth-model shotgun.
He then calmly caught the bus to school with Houk's 8-year-old daughter, they said. His father, identified by family members as Chris Brown, was at work at the time.
"Chris was paying more attention to Kenzie and the new boy coming along so he was upset," said another relative.
Houk's body was discovered later that morning by her 4-year-old daughter, who ran out of the house crying, the relatives said.
The girl flagged down tree trimmers working near the house, about 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, and they called 911.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/02/21/2009-02-21_boy_11_charged_with_killing_fathers_fian.html
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