Internet Dangers Article Archives
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Case Studies: Examples of people using unfiltered Internet Access who have run into problems:

• Man Held in Internet Sex Sting
  A Barrington man was arrested after police said he tried to arrange a sexual encounter with a Carpentersville officer posing as a 14-year-old girl on the Internet. (Chicago Tribune 3/29/2001 Link Status: FC Archive)
  
  

• Professor is Guilty in Child-Porn Case
  A high-ranking Lake Forest College English professor was sentenced to 2 years probation Thursday after admitting she solicited child pornography on the Internet at home. (Chicago Tribune 10/6/00 Link Status: FC Archive)

• Internet Pedophilia Arrests
  Police arrested 53 people in 14 countries Wednesday in what police said was the largest ever worldwide sweep of alleged pedophiles using the Internet. (MSNBC 9/2/2000 Link Status: FC Archive)

• FBI Says Man Tried to Buy Boys for Sex on Internet
  HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Georgia man has been arrested in Texas and charged with trying to buy two elementary school boys for sex after FBI agents monitoring the Internet identified him as a pedophile, the agency said on Thursday. (News.excite.com 6/15/2000 Link Status: FC Archive)

• Girlhood, Interrupted
  The year Katie Tarbox started eighth grade, she met "Mark" in a chat room on America Online (USA Today 4/19/00 Link Status: FC Archive)

• Illinois bank executive held in Milwaukee jail...accused of trying to elicit sexual favors from someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl. (MSNBC from story reported by Milwaukee Touch - 2/11/2000)
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• Runaway Teens -- Internet tempts kids down dangerous roads (Chicago Tribune 10/17/99)
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• Webcam sites...feature...live sex...
  (Chicago Sun Times 10/8/99)
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• Illinois man, 41, found guilty in Internet sex case Lawyer planning appeal; task force on Web crimes gets first conviction (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/4/99)
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• A High-Technology Crash - A fast track digital career at Disney blows up after an arrest for soliciting a 13-year-old on the Web (Newsweek 10/4/99)
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• An Odd Fall From Grace - Computer porn undoes a Divinity School Dean. (Newsweek 5/31/99)
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• Massacre at Columbine High - Killers quickly gain Internet cult status   (Denver Post 4/20/99)
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