From: 22 Rimfire <00022@mailanon.com>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.sex.prostitution] [ASP] Reverse Sting
Date: 9 Mar 1998 11:12:32 +0100

Subject: [ASP] Reverse Sting 
From: ttoollss@aol.com (Ttoollss)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.prostitution

Teen, Officers Exchanged Sex E-Mail

(February 14, 1998,  7:12 pm)
   

RALEIGH, N.C. - A 17-year-old girl from Illinois exchanged sexually explicit
Internet messages with police officers from around the country, resulting in
the suspension of several of them. 
   

Police officers in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Virginia say the girl
struck up an e-mail friendship with them in chat rooms, which quickly escalated
into sexually explicit conversations and ended with the officers getting
disciplined, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday. 
  

 In Wake County, N.C., eight deputies were disciplined last month for
exchanging sexually suggestive messages with the teen-ager while they were on
duty. The girl's mother said one deputy sent her daughter a photo of his
genitals. 
   

Wake County Sheriff John H. Baker Jr. demoted one deputy and suspended seven
from two to four days. 
   

The girl's mother says the policemen took advantage of her daughter's innocent
adventures on the Internet. But some of the officers now say they were lured
into a trap. 

 "This young woman has gone around the country, as best we can determine, and
made contact with a very vulnerable element of our society - police officers -
and then drawn them in and alleged some type of sexual misconduct," said Troy
Spencer, the attorney for one suspended Virginia officer. "She's a
cyberspider."