Georgia man flys to Minnesota for sex with girl he met on the Internet
Kardasz: Read the following sad story of another young person who went away with an Internet sexual predator and consider this tragic truth: We will never have a satisfactory number of law enforcement personnel devoted to the apprehension of Internet sexual predators. Part of the reason is that the offense of luring or enticing a minor via the Internet is under-reported. Under-reporting is partly the natural result of the guilt that a child feels after returning from an unauthorized meeting with an Internet friend who turns out to be a sex offender. The child feels partially responsible for disobeying parental advice about avoiding strangers and will suffer in silence rather than report the offense to parents or police. And without reported offenses, the administrators and politicians who control law enforcement resources will continue to devote those resources to other problems
Internet chat led to criminal sex with Eagan girl, police say
From the StarTribune.com, Minnesota
A Georgia man was charged Thursday in Dakota County with flying to Minnesota and having sex with a teenage girl he met online.
Christopher D. Hipsley, 23, met the 15-year-old Eagan girl on the Internet in 2005, according to the Dakota County Attorney's Office. He flew to Minnesota Jan. 17, sent a taxi to pick up the girl and had sex with her several times, according to a criminal complaint.
The girl originally told Hipsley that she was 17 but she admitted her true age when her sister confronted him.
According to the complaint: The girl did not go to school Jan. 17. Her brother then reviewed her Internet chat logs and found that Hipsley planned to fly from Atlanta and send a taxi to pick up the girl at her bus stop before school. Police found the girl hiding in a closet at an apartment Hipsley rented that day.
He is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Hipsley was being held in the Dakota County jail on $150,000 bond. His next court appearance is set for Feb. 13.