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* 7 p.m. George Plimpton, author of the best seller, Paper Lion , on the Internet. Chat with editor of The Paris Review . Location: AOL Live. Keyword: LIVE * 7 p.m. Cece Winans, Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, on the Internet. Chat about her life story in her book, On A Positive Note . www.bn.com TUESDAY * 4 p.m. Lynn Herring, actress, on the Internet. Chat about her role on ABC's General Hospital . www.abc.com * 4 p.m. Richard Marcinko, author, on the Internet. Chat...
DAD ADMITS TO MOLESTING, KILLING GIRL MAN TALKED OF CRIMES IN INTERNET CHAT ROOM
A man who confessed in Internet chat groups to molesting and killing his daughter pleaded guilty to murder yesterday, a day after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of children.Under a plea agreement, Larry Froistad Jr. would receive a 30-year sentence for setting a house fire in 1995 that killed his 5-year-old daughter, Amanda. Froistad, 29, would be eligible for parole after 25 1/2 years. No sentencing date was set.On Thursday, he admitted in federal court to distributing...
Duke student charged in alleged sex with 14-year-old he met in chat room
HILLSBOROUGH - A Duke University student has been charged with a statutory sex offense for allegedly engaging in a sexual act with a 14-year-old Orange County girl he met in an Internet chat room. Thomas John Jones, 19, of Z Alpha Phi Alpha, Room 202, in Durham, was charged Monday with the sex offense, which allegedly occurred in April when Jones went to the girl's home.Jones is a sophomore in the Trinity College of Arts & Science at Duke. The university has no...
Boy, 14, arrested after threats alleged in Internet chat room
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly boasting to other youths in an Internet chat room that he was going to harm students who had picked on him in school. The student, who has been suspended from Turner High School, made references to Columbine and getting even with "preps," a term used by the students involved in the slaughter in Littleton, Colo., referring to athletes they thought had picked on them."He was surprised when we arrested...
Internet chat spurs assault charge
A Cross Lanes man was arrested on Saturday and charged with third-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl he met through an Internet chat room, State Police said. Steven Wager, 31, a Little League Baseball umpire, was being held in the South Central Regional Jail on a $25,000 bond, said State Police Senior Trooper Larry O'Bryan.Wager confessed to visiting the girl's home in St. Albans three times while her mother was away and to abusing and...