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Online Safety  [message #58708] Tue, 15 September 2009 16:43 Go to previous message
timmy

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Though, to be fair, it is not really "online" that I want to mention. I am receiving information that the operator of another forum, very differently oriented form this one, has been taken into police custody for abusing a 12 year old boy that he had been grooming for the past four years.

That forum, Jeffs Fort, appears currently to be offline, in a way. I am pleased that we have no site links with it that I can find. I am sure we never had.

http://www.eagletribune.com/punewshh/local_story_224031923.html deals with the circumstances of the arrest and alleged abuse.

Just for any kids who are reading this, please make sure you do not get lured into anyone's nasty and somehow seductive clutches. That type of man does not love you, but he loves your innocence and your youthful body. You may be homosexual, but he is a predator. Stand well back and then run away as fast as you can.

Only good sense can protect any young person from abuse, and the abuser will look and feel like your best friend in the world until the day he starts the acts of abuse. So use good sense, and do not let the fact that you are gay and he seems to be gay to deceive you that he is a friend. A responsible adult may well admire you, but will not attempt to get into your pants.

There are no signs we can look for online to "spot this and stop it from happening again" because there ARE no signs.

We have met abusers here before, we will meet them again. Unfortunately the fact that this man abused boys will again state to the world that old saw that gay men abuse boys. But it is predators that abuse kids. Child abusers are child abusers. Gay folk are gay folk. Child abuse is a massive power trip that manifests itself as sex.

[Updated on: Tue, 15 September 2009 17:14]



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
 
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