Kuwait Times:
Calls to cost 170 fils per minute Ministry gives approval to phone 'chat line' services
KUWAIT: The sight of teenagers exchanging their cell phone numbers in shopping malls, then following each other through the malls as they 'chat' may be a thing of the past. Following recent approval by the Ministry of Commerce, telephone chat line companies may now operate legally and openly in Kuwait without restrictions. The Ministry's approval was given in order to facilitate the introduction of commercial dating services in Kuwait. Such services have...
CHAT-LINE WORRIES MOUNT
VIOLENCE POTENTIAL PROMPTS WARNINGS
Sam, a Manteca High freshman, has called the Stockton teen telephone chat line about 20 times. During six of those calls, the 15-year-old arranged to meet girls, sometimes in groups, sometimes one-on-one. All six of the girls showed up. Sam isn't a rapist, a predator looking to pounce on girls naive enough to meet a stranger they've only spoken with on a telephone party line. But he could have been -- and the sharks already are circling on the...
MAN CHARGED IN RAPE OF GIRL,
POLICE SAY SYRACUSE TEEN MET JEFFREY OPALKA, OF FORT JOHNSON, THROUGH CHAT LINE.
A Montgomery County man is being prosecuted on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old Syracuse girl whom he met through a telephone chat line.Syracuse police found the man and the girl at 1:30 a.m. Jan. 19 in a room at the Hotel Syracuse, where the girl told police they watched a pornographic movie, ate pizza and engaged in sexual intercourse and sodomy. Police charged Jeffrey Opalka, 35, of 6 Prospect St., Fort Johnson, with felony counts of rape and sodomy and with misdemeanor counts...
BRIDGEPORT MAN SENT TO PRISON JOHN J. JENNINGS WAS CONVICTED OF RAPING A TEEN-AGE GIRL HE MET THROUGH A LOCAL PHONE CHAT LINE.
A Bridgeport man was sentenced to state prison Monday after admitting he had sex with a teen-age girl he met through a telephone chat line.John J. Jennings, 42, of Hitchcock Road had pleaded guilty to felony third-degree rape in Madison County Court in September. He was sentenced Monday to 11/3 to four years in prison, according to the court clerk's office. Jennings and another man, John E. Milne, 39, of Syracuse, had been charged with having sex with girls whom they had met...