Paedophile jailed for transatlantic 'internet rape' (2984 hits)
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Submitted by hidden101 <hidden101.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2006-11-09 13:03:53 EST
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2445534_1,00.html
An internet paedophile who repeatedly took control of schoolgirls' computers from his own home and "terrorised" them into sending him intimate pictures was jailed today for ten years thanks to the courage of a young Canadian who ignored his threats and told her parents what he was doing.
Adrian Ringland, 36, of Lord Haddon Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, posed as an "attractive and innocent" chat room teenager to gain the trust of youngsters either side of the Atlantic, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Once he had the girls' e-mails, the father of two used a highly advanced programme to hack into their PCs, demonstrating the "horrors that lurk within the internet and the minds of some individuals who use it".
By threatening to crash their systems, he then blackmailed his victims into stripping and sending revealing poses of themselves.
Ringland backed up his warnings by visibly taking control of their computers, moving cursors around, switching on printers and, in one case, opening and closing the CD-ROM drawer.
One of his victims said that his considerable IT expertise reminded her of the cult science fiction film Matrix. Another described her ordeal as "internet rape," while a third threatened suicide.
The court heard that once the defendant felt that he had the vulnerable youngsters under his control he forced them to provide ever more explicit pictures of themselves. He warned that refusal would result in the pictures he already had being sent to their friends, or that valuable files would be wiped from their computers.
Ringland was convinced that he was untouchable, boasting to one child: "Call the cops ... they won't trace me."
But he reckoned without the courage of one of his victims, a 14-year-old girl in Manitoba, Canada, who ignored her tormentor's threats and told her parents - who then alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
After an extensive investigation, officers eventually cracked his electronic defences and traced him to his home 4,000 miles away.
Ringland, who was unemployed and living with his partner at the time, was eventually arrested by local police and bailed. But a random check later caught him having sex with a 14-year-old girl he had groomed on the internet.
He pleaded guilty to 20 charges relating to the internet abuse, two of indecency with a child, four of hacking, four of blackmail and ten offences of making indecent photographs of a child. They involved three girls in Britain and one in Canada.
Thirteen similar charges concerning a number of 15-year-old girls, again on both sides of the Atlantic, were ordered to remain on file. Ringland also admitted six charges of unlawful intercourse and one of internet grooming.
Lisa Wilding, prosecuting, told the court: "This is a case about manipulation, exploitation and sexual gratification. It is a startling tale that will bring home to you the horrors that lurk within the internet and the minds of some individuals who use it."
Ringland's offences had graphically demonstrated how on-line chat rooms could become "the tool of a paedophile", she said. In each case the defendant posed as an "attractive and innocent looking" teenager called Ant Jones.
He even sent a bogus photograph of a youngster as part of the charade. But the picture contained a secret virus, known as a Trojan, that allowed him to instantaneously establish remote control over his victims' computers.
The Trojan enabled him to "manipulate and distort" their systems "in order to frighten the girls into doing as he ordered ... to terrorise them.
She continued: "To show the control that he had he would make strange things happen to his hapless victims' computers. For example, the disc drive drawer would open and close on its own, the printer would start up, text would appear on the screen and the monitor would turn on and off."
The barrister said that the last victim, contacted on June 30, 2003, was the 14-year-old in Manitoba. Working during the early hours from a special ground floor "computer room", he first tricked her into sending a picture of herself before using the virus to take over her computer.
Ringland then demanded a "nude pic" and then demonstrated the sort of control he had by telling her he knew she had just sent a message to someone else.
The youngster told him: "Dude, you're scaring me ... please don't do this, I'm freaked."
Eventually, she e-mailed him a picture of her breast, and despite protesting this was "internet rape", went on to provide more intimate poses.
Less than two weeks later he tried to force her to send further images. When she then threatened to kill herself, Ringland told her he did not care.
Miss Wilding said that as Canadian police began the difficult task of identifying and tracing the defendant, he went on to target yet more teenage girls.
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i thought everyone would enjoy a good rape post today. i know it's been a while since my last one. ( http://www.ubersite.com/m/54467 )
i used to use the same "highly advanced computer program" (Netbus) to terrorize unsuspecting intarweb users back in my high school days. if only i had known it could be used for the purposes of transatlantic internet rape... oh well, hindsight is always 20/20.
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2006-12-13 23:34:54 EST (#)
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It really is rape, too.
Submitted by tamuru (user info) at 2006-12-13 17:48:42 EST (#)
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if you dont know enough about a computer to be able to send the bastard a digital fuck off, then you shoulnt be on the computer in the first place.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-12-09 17:56:34 EST (#)
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Suck your own cock yet today, Slugger?
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2006-12-03 05:01:16 EST (#)
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Fantastic. A final indisputable reason to never visit this loathsome site again.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-11-21 10:57:55 EST (#)
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Paeder "Tranny" Rape.
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2006-11-20 02:34:24 EST (#)
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No Consent
Submitted by PrescriptionX (user info) at 2006-11-20 01:14:45 EST (#)
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He has forever tarnished the name Adrian. It is with a heavy heart that I must now change my name to Gilgamesh.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2006-11-20 01:06:59 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/67215
linkwhore. You're in it. It's like an epic saga with fucking big paragraphs and I started drinking when I realised you'd never seen it. and then I got over it. and then I started drinking again, and then I stopped because my folks came over. The minute they left I hit the bottle again, harder this time, I cursed the night sky and screamed "whatta you lookin' at!" to my neighbours, even though they weren't home. Later that day I realised it wasn't the night sky I'd screamed at at all, because it was the day.
It's got Counterstrike and everything.
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2006-11-09 23:15:48 EST (#)
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Why would a sexy piece of ass like that need to resort to Internet rape?
Submitted by MeeatG (user info) at 2006-11-09 22:49:52 EST (#)
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Holy shit dude, if you're an IT type that is funny as hell.
Submitted by Still-Life (user info) at 2006-11-09 22:06:39 EST (#)
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I duno, this is pretty funny. I can't believe not just one but THREE or more victims are stupid enough to strip and touch themselves because their computers are acting funny. rofl? They fail at the internets. Learn 2 play, n00bs.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-11-09 20:33:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:25:56 (#)
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this is the greatest news story i've ever read. i can't stop laughing. i look at this guy's picture and then imagine some girl crying and telling him she's going to commit suicide and him saying "i don't care, send teh pics!".
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Yeah, I can see how that would be funny. If you were a sheltered adolescent who'd eaten too much paint as a child.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-11-09 18:58:24 EST (#)
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OH NOES TEH CD DRIVE IS COMING TO GET ME!!!
CALL TEH MOUNTIES, EH!!!!
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-11-09 18:46:02 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by GaidinCanuck (user info) at 2006-11-09 18:38:40 EST (#)
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I wonder what these girls were doing that they din't feel comfortable informing their parents right away?
Submitted by MadameDestrukt (user info) at 2006-11-09 18:09:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-11-09 14:13:45 (#)
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This is why underage girls should all learn Unix.
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Guffaw.
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2006-11-09 15:21:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:41:59 (#)
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terrorist pedophiles can turn your child's PSP into a pornobomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l7ng-U_fks
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I never have the cool toys
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-11-09 14:16:25 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-11-09 14:13:45 EST (#)
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This is why underage girls should all learn Unix.
Submitted by Newty (user info) at 2006-11-09 14:11:58 EST (#)
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what kind of retard would actually strip because sumeone was messing with their computer???????
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2006-11-09 14:11:12 EST (#)
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I will bow my head in sorrow for this man and his victims on Canadian Remembrance Day.
Submitted by lechuza (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:50:25 EST (#)
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+1 because he looks like the degenerated version of Tom Hanks
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:41:59 EST (#)
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terrorist pedophiles can turn your child's PSP into a pornobomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l7ng-U_fks
Submitted by lechuza (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:39:58 EST (#)
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I hope this is a joke.
OHH NOOEESS, THAR INTARWEB DUDE CAN OPEN MY CDROMXORS!!!!, MUST STRIP NOW!!!
pd. Netbus is so old, shlongy used it when he was 10
Submitted by livEvil (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:27:22 EST (#)
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Deliciously malicious
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:26:46 EST (#)
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RAPE IS FUNNY
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:26:36 EST (#)
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transatlantic rape - that's a mighty long peener
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:25:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:18:01 (#)
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Netbus. An antiquated hacking tool you can find through Google, and that any idiot with half a brain can track or block. What most of these script-kiddies don't seem to realize is that, while they may have your ip address, you can also pretty easily get theirs.
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well, i didn't know we had an intarweb H4X0R here!
anyway, netbus was fun. when i was taking my CCNA class back in '99, one of my buddies in the class introduced me to it and we terrorized the lab students with it. ah, nostalgia...
this is the greatest news story i've ever read. i can't stop laughing. i look at this guy's picture and then imagine some girl crying and telling him she's going to commit suicide and him saying "i don't care, send teh pics!".
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:21:24 EST (#)
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That picture looks like Harry Potter at age 45.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:18:01 EST (#)
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Netbus. An antiquated hacking tool you can find through Google, and that any idiot with half a brain can track or block. What most of these script-kiddies don't seem to realize is that, while they may have your ip address, you can also pretty easily get theirs.
Submitted by FiveStarGeneral (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:16:01 EST (#)
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Doesn't it make you mad? You were probably harassing some losers instead of getting pics of 14 year old boobies.
Canadians are so gullible.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:14:05 EST (#)
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Hawt.
Hey, who do you work for again?
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:14:01 EST (#)
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Not funny.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:11:37 EST (#)
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What program is this?
Submitted by kwame_johnson (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:10:19 EST (#)
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Dad???!
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:09:00 EST (#)
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There are so many freaks out there, and so many easy targets.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:08:29 EST (#)
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Jeebus!
Submitted by strwbryfanatic (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:08:19 EST (#)
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I'll admit it...I laughed.
Submitted by mynameisandy (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:06:29 EST (#)
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Where can I pic up this program?
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-11-09 13:06:15 EST (#)
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He's got pretty jowls. They'll make good handles for someone in the pokey who's of the mind to play OPERATION: THROATED with his face.