Net pervert sets up new blog amid police probe

HE IS being investigated by the police, but it hasn't stopped him from continuing with his sordid online activities.

Footprints of the online marketer, in his 30s and known better by his moniker nottiboy134, have surfaced online again - just days after he deleted a host of sex-related websites set up earlier.

On Tuesday, a new website, brazenly titled 'SG Notti Boy returns', surfaced on the Internet.

In a write-up on the new website, the website administrator lists, among his targets, 'girls studying in primary school'.

The website owner also announced that his original MSN account, which he had widely broadcast online over the last two years, was 'no longer in use', and that girls would have to chat with him with a newly-set up account.

As of yesterday, the original MSN account the man had been using for the past few years was still active. He was online, but his nickname had been changed to 'SG Good Boy'.

Before The New Paper on Sunday first reported on the man's online activities, on 21Jun, he had been running at least five sex-related websites - including one which showed pictures of scantily clad pre-teen girls accompanied by sexually suggestive captions.

He had called the password-protected site a 'safe haven for primary school girls to express their sexy feelings and naughty thoughts among themselves'.

On his sites, he had also encouraged young girls to chat with him on MSN Messenger. He also set up several accounts on social networking sites to befriend young girls.

A 16-year-old student, who had teamed up with four other friends in an attempt to expose the man online, is now assisting police in their investigations.

In April, he had chatted with the man on two occasions, pretending to be a 12-year-old girl.

At the end of the conversation, he managed to convince the man to give him his handphone number as well as access to the password-protected blog containing the suggestive pictures of children.

He told The New Paper he was surprised the man was still active online.

'He has already been contacted by the police, and yet still is shameless enough to set up a new blog,' the student said.

He added that he felt the man should be banned from using the Internet altogether.

But even then, the man's behaviour, if left unchecked, could be dangerous, he said.

'Even if he were banned from the Internet, he still can continue in real life until he is taken to task,' he said.

One of the student's friends, who also chatted with nottiboy134 pretending to be a young girl, said the man retaliated when he discovered he was being tricked.

He said: 'He gave our MSN Messenger addresses to about 50 strangers, who added us to their contact lists and sent us obscene messages.'

He added that he did not pursue the matter because 'there was nothing much that could be done'.

It seems nottiboy134 has been active online from as early as 2006 on several social networking sites and forums.

Many netizens had posted forum threads cautioning other users against him, while others played online vigilantes, chatting with the man and posting pictures of the man on forum threads and blogs.

One netizen, who calls himself the Blog Inspector, even devoted a blog entry to a 'special report' about the man, complete with pictures of him posing with a child.

The netizen wrote: 'The plan (was) to trick him into believing we were actually interested in him, then make him come out to meet us...

'We'll carry out the mission when we have gathered enough information and have come up with a really good plan to expose the pervert.'

Net predator caught trying to lure girl, 12, away

A MAN'S attempt to abduct a 12-year-old Scottish girl failed just as he was about to take her on a plane to Spain with him. He realised too late she had no passport, reported several British newspapers.

During the three hours she was missing, her parents were unaware of her absence, thinking she had left their holiday villa in France to play outside.

After finding her sobbing in Marseilles Provence airport, police stormed the plane the man was on and caught him.

The 41-year-old Belgian man, whom she met via an internet chatroom, managed to lure her out from her family's holiday villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, south of France, said Times.

They had met four months earlier on a social networking and role-playing website Gaia.com, which describes itself as 'an online gathering of environmentally and spiritually conscious people'.

The man, who told her he was 28, apparently e-mailed her, saying he would find her when she arrived on holiday, said The Daily Telegraph.

Police said he had arrived in the resort last Tuesday, and waited three days before luring the girl away from the villa where, according to Le Figaro newspaper, she had been staying with her parents, brothers and sisters.

A French police spokesman said: 'It was the middle of the day and her mother and father assumed she was out playing. In fact, she had left in a taxi with a man she had met in a chatroom.

'Over the previous four months, she had been chatting to a man whom she believed to be a 28-year-old. She had told him where and when she was going on holiday and he had clearly followed her there.'

Horrified

The spokesman added: 'When the parents were notified, they were horrified to learn their daughter had been found at Marseille airport.

'It seems she had at first gone with the man willingly, but he abandoned her at the airport when he found she had no passport.'

Officers boarded a plane and arrested the man just ten minutes before it was due to take off.

The man, who lives in Spain, told police he was the girl's uncle, but he was arrested and remanded in custody in the town of Luynes over the weekend before being charged with child abduction.

The girl has since been reunited with her family in their holiday resort.

Mr John Carr from the Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety said this was a classic example of why parents needed to talk to their children about the importance of not revealing personal information over the Internet.

He said: 'It's about talking to your child and keeping open channels of communication, so they feel that they can come and talk to you if something untoward does happen.'

Campaigners in Europe have been lobbying governments to set up an all-ports alert system similar to the Amber Alert system in the United States, which would notify air and shipping ports across the continent when a child is reported missing.

5 S'pore computers involved: German Interpol

FIVE computers in Singapore were used to download obscene videos and images from a child pornography network involving about 9,000 people in more than 90 countries.

Mr Horst Haug, a spokesman for the state office of criminal investigation of the State of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, told The New Paper that Interpol Germany had informed Interpol Singapore of its findings last November.

Mr Haug said no information was yet available on the five computers here.

He said: 'All we know is that the material had been distributed peer to peer.'

A Singapore police spokesman could not respond to The New Paper's queries by press time.

In April, the German media reported that German police had broken up the child pornography network, which had distributed the obscene material to several European countries, as well as the US, Canada and New Zealand.

BBC News reported that the footage contained 'images of the most serious sexual abuse'.

And in extensive raids across Germany, beginning last year, about 500 computers and 43,000 storage devices were seized, and some arrests were made.

Most of the suspects were released while investigations were carried out, but one man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing two children in his family, police told BBC News.

Investigators told the German media that they were able to monitor the suspects' online activity round the clock with the help of special software.

The Films Act and the Undesirable Publications Act prohibit the possession of obscene materials, which includes pornography.

If convicted, each obscene video clip could result in an individual being jailed up to six months, fined $500, or both - with a maximum of $20,000 in fines.

They paid $15 to download one video

SWISS police have identified more than 2,000 people across the world who have downloaded images and videos from an online child pornography network spanning 78 countries.

PROTESTING AGAINST PORN: A woman leads a chant during a 10-day rally in the Philippines aimed at pushing lawmakers to pass a law against child pornography. PICTURE: REUTERS

Three Singaporeans are among that number, according to a police spokesman.

Swiss federal police spokesman Kum Saerman told The New Paper that the three Singaporeans had allegedly downloaded material from a site hosted on a Swiss server in Vaud, one of the country's 26 cantons.

'After observing the site for half a year, the police started taking action,' he said.

He did not reveal more about the Singaporeans.

Most of the suspects - 636 - are from the US, Mr Saerman said.

According to Swiss media reports, users of the child pornography Internet network were using a Hip-Hop website to buy pornographic videos and photographs featuring children.

The principal content of the site was legal, but users were able to access the illegal material with secret codes.

The users had paid US$10 ($15) to download one video and US$500 for the full collection of 101 titles, with proceeds going to operators in Russia.

Vaud police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel told the Swiss media that the videos were short and showed sexual acts being performed on children. It is not known where the videos were produced.

The administrator of the website did not know the site had been used to distribute child pornography, and had been cleared of wrongdoing, Mr Sauterel said.

Swiss federal police said 'dozens' of arrests had been made, following an Interpol tip-off last May about a Vaud-based website that was being used to direct Internet users to child pornography videos.

In Switzerland alone, 32 suspected cases of involvement in the network have been uncovered, leading to one man being fined.

To stem the tide of child pornography, authorities worldwide have been taking a hard line against offenders, with more resources dedicated to promoting the safety of children online.

In the UK, for example, a dedicated organisation - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) - was formed in 2006 to curb the sexual abuse of children.

A spokesman for the CEOP told The New Paper that it actively polices the Internet for child pornography and child sex offenders, and helps investigates international cases whenever a British citizen is involved.

She said: 'In such cases, we will share intelligence with the local authorities if they request it.'

Intervention

The spokesman added that CEOP officers routinely track the online activities of questionable individuals and intervene when necessary.

She said: 'People seldom stumble upon pictures of children being sexually abused - they usually actively look for them.

'Paedophiles usually possess pictures which are given to them willingly by the children themselves. They do not usually upload them to websites, but share them among fellow paedophiles.'

She added that, however, that netizens should always alert the authorities if they happen to come across pictures of children being sexually exploited.

According to statistics from CEOP, more than 700 arrests have been made since 2006 for online sex-related offences involving children.

And in Australia, all child sex offenders are registered on a database (the Australian National Child Offender Register) which allows police to monitor their movements.

Alerts are automatically generated when the ex-offender travels to another state or overseas.

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OTHER ONLINE PREDATORS CAUGHT

1. German police said in Apr that they have broke up a child pornography network suspected of involving around 9,000 people in 92 countries.

These people are believed to have downloaded a 18-minute movie showing the rape of an eight-year-old Russian girl.

2. A British police officer working in a child abuse unit was arrested and charged in Apr with causing or inciting a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.

Andrew Rowe, who had worked for the local police for 12 years, was arrested after alleged inappropriate Internet communications with the girl, said police.

3. Last month, a 24-year-old American sailor, Christopher Wenzlick, was arrested in Virginia, US and charged with having sexually explicit online chats with an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl.

Wenzlick was charged with three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and one count of using a computer system for crimes against children, police said.

Man in 30s watch porno on mobile phone on MRT train

A STOMPer was shocked after he happened to catch a glimpse of what the man was watching on his handphone.

In an email to STOMP today (June 20), the STOMPer wrote:

I was flabbergasted by this man on June 18.

“I was taking a Northeast line train from Dhoby Ghaut to Kovan in the afternoon. There was this chinese man, age around thirties dressed in red shirt and white burmunda pants.

“He was looking down at his pants, at a small portable cellphone.

“He was smiling silently, and gave a sort of pervert look. So I tiled my head in such an angle to peek at what he was watching.

“I was shocked when I saw the content inside his phone. The video he was watching was a pair of couple engaging in sexual activity. In short, he was watching pornography in a public place.

“I stared at him hard for a very long time, hoped that he would stop such nonsensical act.

“Apparently he was so engrossed with his sexual video that he did not realise I was staring at him.

“Lucky for him, I am male and I not that offended by his act. But what happen if it is a lady? Seriously, he may want to consider watching such video privately at home.”

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