He posed as a female to entice classmates to sent him nude photos.
19-year old Anthony Stancl of New Berlin, Wisconsin last week was sentenced to 15 years in prison for blackmailing classmates to have sex with him via Facebook, according to news sources.
In December Stancl had pleaded no contest to two felonies including sexual assault of a child, and last week was sentenced to only half of the 30 year term the charges permit.
Stancl was accused of creating a fake Facebook profile on which he pretended to be female and then using it to trick more than 30 of his male classmates into sending him nude photos or videos of themselves, and then using those to blackmail the senders for sex.
Stancl threatened to post the explicit photos online if the boys did not agree to engage in sex with him. Apparently, Stancl’s scheme was successful in at least seven cases, which he documented with his cell phone. It unraveled when one 16 year old boy went to police with the blackmail threat.
Stancl was charged with 12 felonies in connection with the case, including 5 counts of child enticement, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, possession of child pornography, repeated sexual assault of the same child, and making a bomb threat.
Social networking giant Twitter is slowly rolling out a request to all users asking them to update their personal information in order to be “found on Twitter”. When this occurs, the next time you long into the site, a box will pop up, asking you to confirm your information, including your email address and mobile phone number.
The reason they are asking for this information, according to them, is so that all of this information can be included in their search index, making you easier to find.
The phone and email information will not be made public, according to Twitter, but their exponential growth is making it harder for users to find their friends or track users with similar interests.
Twitter now has more than 73 million users worldwide, and all account holders will see this update box over the coming weeks.
Including your email and mobile phone in the Twitter search index is optional. You can un-check a box next to each to opt out of including your personal information.
What do you think? Too much information for Twitter?
CBS is about to find out if a popular Twitter account can be turned into a profitable TV series. And this isn’t just any ordinary Twitter account. This is Shit My Dad Says, a Twitter account by Justin Halpern, who started the account to type up his favorite quotes of the day from conversations with his 74-year-old father.
Sound like a difficult task to put on television? Well, if anyone is up to the task, it’s William Shatner will make the transition to television, it’s off to a good start with Shatner.
The show will be produced by Will and Grace’s Max Mutchnik and David Kohan. In the meantime, feel free to check out the Twitter account, though be prepared for some expletive-laced tweets.
via Can a Twitter Account Be a TV Series?.
