When the Fairmount Park security guard saw 20 year old Andrew Leon and the person he was kissing inside of a parked vehicle, the guards first thought was that the person looked too young to be out. When the guard went to further investigate the situation, he found that the person with Leon was a 13 year old girl.
Leon was arrested under suspension of molestation, and it was discovered that the he had met his victim through the infamous online community- MySpace. Riverside police reported that this is the forth incident involving minors and Myspace since the beginning of the year.
Leon is claiming that he believed the child to be older than she actually was. However, that isn't all Leon has to worry about, as it turns out that he went AWOL from the Army after a short stint in the Midwest. Desertion from the U.S. Armed Forces, and child molestation. His mom must be proud.
I have to continue to wonder just what it is that leads parents to ignore their children's activities online. Who among us would allow our children to walk alone into a building filled with pedophiles, rapist and child molesters? I dare to say that none of us would... and yet so many of us turn a blind eye to our children logging onto a chat room, online community or message board filled with them.
Tip of the Hat to "A Proud American!"- who despite a rocky start here, has turned out to have a bit more in common with me than first imagined.
Video Report From NBC 4 On Leon Arrest
Alleged Army Deserter Suspected of Molestation - Los Angeles Times
Categories: internet, molesters,
Leon was arrested under suspension of molestation, and it was discovered that the he had met his victim through the infamous online community- MySpace. Riverside police reported that this is the forth incident involving minors and Myspace since the beginning of the year.
Leon is claiming that he believed the child to be older than she actually was. However, that isn't all Leon has to worry about, as it turns out that he went AWOL from the Army after a short stint in the Midwest. Desertion from the U.S. Armed Forces, and child molestation. His mom must be proud.
I have to continue to wonder just what it is that leads parents to ignore their children's activities online. Who among us would allow our children to walk alone into a building filled with pedophiles, rapist and child molesters? I dare to say that none of us would... and yet so many of us turn a blind eye to our children logging onto a chat room, online community or message board filled with them.
Tip of the Hat to "A Proud American!"- who despite a rocky start here, has turned out to have a bit more in common with me than first imagined.Video Report From NBC 4 On Leon Arrest
Alleged Army Deserter Suspected of Molestation - Los Angeles Times
Categories: internet, molesters,
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I have visited here a few times before but have never commented. Thank you for having this BLOG and providing all this information. I have an 8 year old grandaughter and I worry all the time about the things you talk about. It makes me sick to read about all the terrible things that people can do to our children.
Thanks for reading this, the more people that know what is going on, the more people that are effected by reading about it- the better chance we have on stopping it. I'm often sicken by the stories too... before I started blogging them, I read them everyday and it just got to the point where I had to say something, and I haven't been able to shut up since.
Please feel free to come back and comment as often as you like. I enjoy hearing peoples thoughts on the different stories, and so many times readers present a way of looking at it that I hadn't thought of.