yardyspice
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Police issue warning to single mothers seeking love on the net - don't tell suitors about your children
POLICE have warned single mothers about the dangers of internet dating after the arrest of a man who allegedly travelled to Brisbane to have sex with an underage girl.
A 55-year-old man from Campbell in the ACT appeared in custody in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday, charged with using the internet to procure a child under 16 to engage in a sex act.
The arrest was part of a sting operation that began in September, with police posing in an internet chatroom as the mother of a 13-year-old girl, "Bree".
Police swooped on the man at an address in Taringa, in Brisbane's west, on Wednesday night.
Bail was not opposed today and the case was adjourned until November 26.
Outside court, Inspector John Rouse from the State Crime Operations Command's Task Force Argos said there was a disturbing trend emerging for pedophiles to target single mothers as a way of gaining access to their children.
"We had two cases that I was aware of late last year where ... a child sex offender had groomed a mum from an online dating site then gone onto the process of committing an offence against her child," he said.
"Unfortunately there is, with the internet, a dark side and these guys are using that as a portal to try and find victims.
He urged single mothers to limit the amount of personal information they put on the internet.
"If you're going to utilise internet dating websites for example, make it about you," he said.
"Don't put information on your profile page saying 'I am a single mother with three beautiful children that are my world' because effectively that's what they're looking for.
"You don't know how any image or piece of information you put on the internet is going to be used.
"Tragically, a lot of these people are now grooming single mums with children and it's not, unfortunately, for the legitimate purpose of finding a new relationship with the mother."
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POLICE have warned single mothers about the dangers of internet dating after the arrest of a man who allegedly travelled to Brisbane to have sex with an underage girl.
A 55-year-old man from Campbell in the ACT appeared in custody in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday, charged with using the internet to procure a child under 16 to engage in a sex act.
The arrest was part of a sting operation that began in September, with police posing in an internet chatroom as the mother of a 13-year-old girl, "Bree".
Police swooped on the man at an address in Taringa, in Brisbane's west, on Wednesday night.
Bail was not opposed today and the case was adjourned until November 26.
Outside court, Inspector John Rouse from the State Crime Operations Command's Task Force Argos said there was a disturbing trend emerging for pedophiles to target single mothers as a way of gaining access to their children.
"We had two cases that I was aware of late last year where ... a child sex offender had groomed a mum from an online dating site then gone onto the process of committing an offence against her child," he said.
"Unfortunately there is, with the internet, a dark side and these guys are using that as a portal to try and find victims.
He urged single mothers to limit the amount of personal information they put on the internet.
"If you're going to utilise internet dating websites for example, make it about you," he said.
"Don't put information on your profile page saying 'I am a single mother with three beautiful children that are my world' because effectively that's what they're looking for.
"You don't know how any image or piece of information you put on the internet is going to be used.
"Tragically, a lot of these people are now grooming single mums with children and it's not, unfortunately, for the legitimate purpose of finding a new relationship with the mother."
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Seems to be his MO to meet women with young daughters.
