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Gack, why do people want to hurt kids?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 285008" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>How awful! You just never know, do you! To me, this sentence out of the article:</p><p> </p><p><em>" ... and had taught English and computer skills to first- through third-graders while living in Thailand for two years."</em></p><p> </p><p>... is a HUGE red flag! Is Thailand not supposed to be pretty much the 'child sex capitol' of the world? I never realized that this kind of thing was so <em>organized </em>though! From this article, it sounds like there are "travel agents" who organize tours for this kind of thing! That's just sickening!</p><p> </p><p>And I never realized that there are websites, almost like the 'dating' sites for singles, where people can arrange to meet up with <em>children</em>, many of whom are being offered up by their own parents! In our very, very small town, one of our local attorneys (we only had three of them!) was arrested in Florida by federal agents after he exchanged emails with what he thought was a mother offering up her 12 year old! Apparently he had done this many times before, only this time the 'mother' turned out to be federal agents conducting a sting operation! Last I heard, he was in a federal prison awaiting trial, but <em>I swear</em> I saw him walking down the street yesterday! Hard to mistake him because the man weighs close to 400 pounds! This was a welll respected professional man in the community, one of those 'pillar of the church' types. I do feel very sorry for his family though. He had a nice wife and two lovely daughters! The older daughter was one of my sons closest friends all through high school, a very sweet girl. Makes you wonder about his own children too!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 285008, member: 1883"] How awful! You just never know, do you! To me, this sentence out of the article: [I]" ... and had taught English and computer skills to first- through third-graders while living in Thailand for two years."[/I] ... is a HUGE red flag! Is Thailand not supposed to be pretty much the 'child sex capitol' of the world? I never realized that this kind of thing was so [I]organized [/I]though! From this article, it sounds like there are "travel agents" who organize tours for this kind of thing! That's just sickening! And I never realized that there are websites, almost like the 'dating' sites for singles, where people can arrange to meet up with [I]children[/I], many of whom are being offered up by their own parents! In our very, very small town, one of our local attorneys (we only had three of them!) was arrested in Florida by federal agents after he exchanged emails with what he thought was a mother offering up her 12 year old! Apparently he had done this many times before, only this time the 'mother' turned out to be federal agents conducting a sting operation! Last I heard, he was in a federal prison awaiting trial, but [I]I swear[/I] I saw him walking down the street yesterday! Hard to mistake him because the man weighs close to 400 pounds! This was a welll respected professional man in the community, one of those 'pillar of the church' types. I do feel very sorry for his family though. He had a nice wife and two lovely daughters! The older daughter was one of my sons closest friends all through high school, a very sweet girl. Makes you wonder about his own children too! [/QUOTE]
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