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MISSING GIRL FOUND; MAN IS ARRESTED
A 15-year-old Taylorsville girl missing for more than 24 hours was found
Wednesday.
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Title: Microsoft Works with San Diego Agencies to Make Internet Safer
for Children
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, The, 06/01/2003
Author(s): Jonathan Sidener
AN: 2W60576879050
Database: Newspaper Source
Microsoft Works with San Diego Agencies to Make Internet Safer for
Children
Jun. 1--In 1998, the FBI received a tip about a graphic photo on a Web
site showing the rape of a young girl. Investigation pointed to a San
Diego Internet address.
At the same time, the San Diego Police Department and the District
Attorney's Office were forming the San Diego Internet Crimes Against
Children task force, in part to better coordinate Internet-related
investigations.
The FBI turned to the fledgling task force for assistance. The joint law
enforcement effort pinpointed a suspect and ultimately uncovered a
videotape showing several sexual assaults of the girl.
As a result, Mac David Cochran was convicted of 39 counts of child
sexual abuse and was sentenced to 141 years to life in prison.
The investigation and prosecution, and other San Diego task force work
led the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to recently
name San Diego as one of six "cyber safe" cities in the country.
"We wanted to highlight six cities we felt were examples of cyber
safety," said Lisa Cullen, spokeswoman for the national center. "We
wanted to present a challenge to other cities and increase the public
awareness of cyber safety."
The award is more than honorary for San Diego; New York; Dallas;
Seattle; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Naperville, Ill. Each city will have
access to training tools and its choice of either a $10,000 grant or a
$5,000 grant plus $10,000 worth of software to be used in improving
online safety efforts.
Microsoft's Internet service, MSN, is co-sponsor of the Cyber Safe
Cities program. MSN, the nation's second-largest Internet service
provider, sponsored the program.
MSN product manager Larry Grothaus said the company takes cyber safety
very seriously. The Internet provider has fortified the parental control
software in the latest version of MSN software, Grothaus said.
America Online, the nation's largest Internet service provider, has
taken similar steps.
The Cyber Safe Cities program only considered communities that have
Internet Crimes Against Children task forces. More than 30 groups have
been set up through the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention.
As Internet connections become mainstream fixtures in American homes --
58 percent of San Diego families are online -- keeping young Net surfers
safe gets more difficult each year:
--Nineteen percent of young Internet users in a survey by the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children reported receiving an unwanted
sexual solicitation in the past year.
--Three percent of the youths received an aggressive solicitation
involving requests for personal meetings or other types of direct
contact.
--Seventy percent of the unwanted solicitations happened when the youths
were using a computer at home. Most of the remaining contacts came at
the homes of friends.
"We've done a good job teaching kids about stranger danger," said San
Diego police Sgt. David Jones, a task force founder.
"Kids are good about that. If a stranger drives up and approaches them,
they know to run away and to report it. But put them in a chat room and
they'll tell people all kinds of things. And every one of those people
is a stranger."
To combat the dangers, the San Diego task force uses enforcement and
education.
It provides local law enforcement officers and prosecutors with
information about child exploitation and high-tech crime. It also has a
speakers bureau and cyber-safety materials for schools and parents.
Part of the education for parents is to let them know the strengths and
weaknesses of parental controls such as filters or spyware that can
record children's online activities.
"Most children are more savvy than their parents," Jones said. "They
know ways around parental controls. One of the most important things a
parent can do is to maintain a relationship with open lines of
communication. Talk to their kids about their online activities.
"There are also adult computer education classes they can take or they
can have their kids teach them."
The task force also has developed an Internet child-safety curriculum
for parents, teachers and community groups.
The coalition, which initially consisted of two San Diego police
officers and a prosecutor from the District Attorney's Office, has
grown. Its members now include the Sheriff's Department, the FBI, U.S.
Customs, U.S. Postal inspectors and the San Diego Regional Computer
Forensics Laboratory.
Jones and deputy district attorney Jeffrey Dort say pedophiles turn to
the Internet because of the perception of anonymity.
It's a false sense of secrecy, Dort said.
"It can be complicated to figure out where something came from," the
prosecutor said. "But it's not so complicated that we sit around
throwing our hands in the air. The tough part is connecting the offender
to the keyboard. If someone else uses the computer, (the offender) can
say, 'It must have been my son.' " As computing becomes more complex, it
becomes more challenging to enforce the law online, Dort said.
"It used to be you'd go into someone's house and they had one computer,
one hard drive," he said. "Now you go in and they have six computers
networked together. And each one has a 80-gigabyte hard drive. That's
480 gigs of material to go through."
The key to the task force's success lies in strong cooperation between
agencies, Dort said. The regional computer lab in particular helps to
crack cases involving huge amounts of data, or files that a suspect has
attempted to erase, he said.
With Internet crimes often involving residents of two or more states,
interstate work between agencies can make or break a case, he said.
"Digital evidence is so fragile," he said. "If a predator is from
Arizona and we arrest him here, the first phone call is going to be to a
friend or relative to have them take care of his computer. It's
important that someone in the other state seize the computer at the same
time we seize the offender."
WHERE TO LEARN ABOUT SAFE SURFING: San Diego's Internet Crimes Against
Children Task Force http://www.sdicac.org
The Online Safety Project http://www.safekids.com
MSN Cyber Safe page http://www.staysafeonline.com
S.D. County District Attorney Protecting Children Web Page
http://www.co.san-diego.ca.us/cnty/ cntydepts/safety/da/
protecting/index.html
GetNetWise http://www.getnetwise.org
Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/ conline/edcams/
infosecurity/forkids.html
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children http://www.ncmec.org
TIPS FOR PARENTS
--Place your computer in a common area of the house.
--Educate yourself about computers and the Internet.
--Do not allow your child to go into private chat rooms.
--Do not let your child give out any personal information of any kind on
the Internet.
--Review the use histories or logs of your computer to see where your
child has been on the Net.
--Put accounts in your name and know your child's passwords.
--Spend time with your child online.
--Be aware of other computers your child could be using.
--Never allow your child to arrange a face-to-face meeting with someone
they met online without your permission.
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Headline: Accused priest may soon leave country
Summary: OGDEN -- The Ogden priest charged with enticing a minor over the Internet may be forced to return to Columbia because the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has removed its sponsorship of his working visa.
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OGDEN PRIEST PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGE
The Rev. Mario Arbelaez Olarte pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of
enticing a minor over the Internet on Tuesday in state court.
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