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Newville man sentenced to prison in Craigslist sex case:

I originally posted about 39-year-old Lewis Dopp here. He was arrested in Carlisle, Pennsylvania last year for sexually assaulting underage girls that he met through craigslist. He would get them drunk and take advantage of them, once even having another girl record him having sex with one of the girls. The twist on this story is that Dopp used the craigslist ads for babysitters to find his victims. He would even post ads of his own looking for ‘babysitters’.

This past week he was sentenced to 3-6 years in the Penn State…I mean state pen after pleading guilty. (Sorry PSU fans, I couldn’t resist.)

Seriously though that is a joke of a sentence for someone who is a serial sexual predator in my opinion. His attorney even wanted the sentence reduced citing that Dopp has the mental capacity of an 18-year-old. If you click on the link to my original post about Dopp you can see some comments that I believe were left by Dopp under a few different aliases trying to defend himself.

He has a diminished mental capacity all right but that doesn’t mean he didn’t know what he was doing. To me a diminished mental capacity means someone who was incapable of telling the difference between right and wrong. Dopp is just a moron.

When he gets out in probably less than three years I can almost guarantee he’ll go back to creeping on underage girls using whatever electronic means predators will be using then.

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Prison, payback for rental scam:

It’s not every day that we hear about a craigslist scammer not only being caught but being sent to jail for their crimes. However today is one of those days.

In West Chester, Pennsylvania 33-year-old Darryl Knight was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in Chester County Prison for scamming people out of deposits for a rental property that Knight didn’t own.

Knight used the alias of Tony Lal and advertised the property for rent and collected deposits from various people. The problem is that Knight didn’t own the property. As a matter of fact Knight was actually living there renting the property himself.

Knight is a father of seven who was fired from his retail job for stealing. I know desperate times can call for desperate measures sometimes but what gives you the right to steal from these people who were also in dire straits?

Hopefully Chester County Prison is as bad as the city of Chester is. This scumbag gets everything he deserves.

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Police: Man sexually assaulted York County teens he met through babysitting ad:

In Carlisle, Pennsylvania police arrested 37-year-old Lewis A. Dopp for allegedly having sex with 5 girls ages 16 and 17 that he found on craigslist. However he did not find them on craigslist the way you think he would have. He found them because ether the girls had placed ads for their baby sitting services on craigslist or had responded to Dopp’s ad for a baby sitter.

Between Oct. 1, 2009, and June 30 Dopp would spend weekends with the teens at his home, according to a news release.

During that time, Dopp provided the teens with alcohol and had sexual contact with three of the teens when they were 15 and 16 years old, police said.

Reportedly he had one of the teens record him having sex with one of the others. It’s hard to believe that this went unnoticed for 8 months. Dopp supposedly only put a stop to it because some of the girls were smoking weed and he did not approve of that. A creeper with standards. Who would have guessed?

No word on if Dopp actually had a child that was in need of sitting.

But who in the blue hell allows their 16 or 17-year-old daughter to post an ad for baby sitting on craigslist? Apparently the kind of parent who doesn’t care about their kids getting molested.

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Graphic Craigslist ad leads to guilty plea:

A woman from York Haven, Pennsylvania was sentenced to community service and a mental health evaluation after pleading guilty to posting a harassing craigslist ad.

In a fit of anger the woman posted an ad on craigslist, probably the casual encounters section, soliciting sex listing her friend’s phone number on the ad. The victim received a slew of explicit text messages.

You may think this is funny and cute and not a big deal but ‘pranks’ like this have led to sexual assaults and rapes have been orchestrated by ads like this on craigslist.

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Cops Use Craigslist For Prostitution Sting:

Police in Bucks County have arrested 16 people on prostitution and drug charges after finding the suspects using the popular craigslist Web site in a sting operation.

Bensalem Township (Pa.) police said a special unit used www.craigslist.com as an “investigative tool” to identify, contact and arrest prostitutes.

Bensalem police say 52-year-old Amber Lanier Angeli was one of dozens caught in Bensalem’s summer long sex sting.

Angeli arrived at court Thursday to face prostitution charges.

Police in Bensalem said they chose the Web site because they felt it “blatantly allow(s) prostitutes to post advertisements with explicit solicitations for sex for money to be posted across the entire world.”

“It’s a lot easier now with pictures, descriptions of what they will do for you,” said Fred Harran, Bensalem’s public safety director.

Harran showed NBC 10 a dozen photos of suspects nabbed this week. Harran says they were picked up at various motels after posting messages and pictures.

The services cost as much as $250 per hour.

Police said 12 people were arrested for prostitution and related offenses, and four people were arrested for dealing drugs.

Additionally, several thousand dollars in U.S. currency and four vehicles were seized, police said.

They also said one couple was charged with selling Oxycontin to an undercover police officer, after they brought their 3-year-old child to the scene of the drug sale.

Busting craigslist hookers is like shooting fish in a barrel.

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