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Both Catley and Bakth allowed searches of their vehicles and later made statements to authorities, court papers
indicated. The contents of those statements weren't disclosed by authorities.
Danhart first contacted the undercover agent on March 8, authorities said. He went on to provide the person he
believed to be a teen with a cellular telephone number to contact him, court papers said. He then surrendered to the
Attorney General's Office.
The area has had numerous other Internet cases involving adults allegedly contacting children for sexual purposes.
They include:
Last month, Michael Murdoch, 23, formerly of Spring Run Manor, Crescent Township, Allegheny County, was
indicted in federal court on a charge of using the Internet to arrange sexual encounters with a 14-year-old.
In February, a 13-year-old girl from Hempfield Township and a Texas man she met over the Internet were stopped
near Texarkana, Ark., by police and FBI agents. Nathan Hugh Wedgeworth, 22, of Lufkin, told investigators the two
were on their way to Texas and he hoped to have sex with the girl. He was indicted by a federal grand jury.
In January, Ian Finlay, 28, a former computer security expert at Carnegie Mellon University, was convicted of
trying to lure an online acquaintance he believed was a 15-year-old girl into a sexual liaison.
Two months earlier, Baden police Officer Kenneth Jones, 38, was charged with using a computer to entice a teenage
boy into sex.
In 2003, Scott W. Tyree, of Herndon, Va., was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for taking a 13-year-old
Crafton Heights, Allegheny County, girl to his home and shackling her to a bed before she was rescued by
authorities. The two met on the Internet. Tyree's online profile described him as "master for teen slave girls."
Corbett said he also hopes to convince authorities to hand down harsher sentences for sexual predators.
The three men charged yesterday each face up to 20 years in prison, but Corbett said that in similar previous cases
the sentences imposed were much less.
To try to deter contact by Internet predators, Corbett suggested that parents put the computers their children are
using in a public area of the home.
"It should be a place where a parent can easily see what's going on," he said.
Online dangers
There are 100,000 Web sites that offer illegal child pornography on the Internet.
Eleven is the average age of exposure to Internet pornography.
One in five girls and one in 10 boys are sexually exploited before they reach adulthood.
One in five children, ages 10 to 17, receive unwanted sexual solicitations online.
Sources: The Internet Filter Review, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the U.S. Department
of Justice and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.
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Get the message, kids
Australia - Sydney Morning Herald - April 2, 2005
By Darren Baguley
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Icon/Get-the-message-kids/2005/03/30/1111862448404.html#
Dinner has just finished, you've packed the dishwasher and you're curled up on the sofa with your partner while the
children are doing their homework. If you have internet access, and 52 per cent of Australian households do, it's
more than likely your children have an instant messaging (IM) session open as well.
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