November 2009

Va. man nabbed in Craigslist sex sting; drawn in by fake ad:

Claude Philip Diehl Jr., of Hollywood, Virginia was arrested for allegedly trying to trade beer and cash for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Diehl allegedly responded to an ad on craigslist that read in part “Leftover Halloween candy? “Anyone have candy to donate to ‘girl’ so she’s not sad anymore?” The ad was in the casual encounters section. You know, one of the many un-moderated sections of craigslist.

Diehl allegedly worked for a beer distributor and promised the father who was pimping out his daughter $40 and 5 cases of beer. He showed up for the tryst with the beer and the cash, condoms and a Miley Cyrus CD. Luckily when the beer was placed in the father’s truck it turns out the father was part of the Leesburg, Virginia police force and promptly arrested Diehl.

Luckily this was all a sting operation and there was no 13-year-old girl however it shows a couple of things. First, while this ad was a fake it shows that there are people out there whoring out their kids on craigslist. The second thing is that if craigslist’s user policing works as well as they claim this ad should have never seen the light of day. And Lastly Jim Buckmaster can’t claim that this has happened in newspaper advertisements. I don’t think any self respecting newspaper would have ever run an ad like that.

I am dying of curiosity to know what kind of beer it was.

Police Investigate Craigslist Sex Post:

Police in Sacramento, California are investigating the following ad they allegedly found on craigslist…

Hi. “I’m 12 and I need sexual help. I wanna be experienced when I get to high school. Don’t email me. Just call…”

The number itself traced back to a prepaid cell phone.

Police do not think that it is an actual 12-year-old girl but some kind of sexual predator. Unfortunately their hands are tied with what they can do since this isn’t a life or death situation.

However this goes to show you that this is just another criminal activity that is going on unabated on craigslist and they still choose to do nothing about it.

Like I’ve said many times before that self policing does not work. The people who traverse the sections of craigslist that contain these kind of ads are not going to flag any illegal ads because that is exactly what they’re looking for.

Man, estranged wife charged with filming themselves raping girl, 4:

Friend of the site Dodia Fae sent in this tip to be considered under the News of Doom section of the site. It certainly does meet the requirements for that but I did a little digging and found that the story has a craigslist connection. But I’m getting a little ahead of myself.

Our story starts with 38-year-old Richard Hockaday of San Diego. He’s a sex offender who posed as a single mother on craigslist looking for others to have some sort of ‘fantasy’ in either San Diego or the Seattle area. Hockaday is accused of sexually abusing a boy he was mentoring between 2003 and 2007.

Through craigslist Hockaday was able to meet Brian Beston, 36, and Hollie Beston, 31, of Burien, Washington. Allegedly the 360 lb Brian Beston (pictured) would have sex with a 4-year-old girl while filmed by Hollie Beston in exchange for other child porn images from Hockaday.

Both Bestons have pleaded not guilty.

It shouldn’t be very surprising that these child molesting scumbags used craigslist to find each other. It seems to be the bulletin board of choice for pedophiles. I would love to know from Jim Buckmaster personally as to why that self policing of craigslist didn’t prevent this.