
19-year-old Chad Lewis Evans was arrested on Child Pornography and sexual abuse charges in Pasadena, California on March 27th.
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He fled Salem, Oregon after being found with child pornography and identified as exploiting a 12 year old victim.
This story has been all over the news and the internet for weeks. What you haven’t heard is that Chad Evans has a MySpace page and his friends are already proclaiming his innocence.
WFI has uncovered Chad's personal MySpace page and pictures. As you can see here, he appears to be an average 19 year old.
Parents and teens need to be aware of how dangerous the internet is. You may have wondered about MySpace and other social networking sites that people use to chat and message each other.
Teens use this site and others like it, to post pictures and chat with friends and with strangers. Almost everyone at school has a MySpace page that lists all kinds of information about them. Teens feel safe flirting with strangers, even older men, because they are hiding behind a computer.
Teens often forget that anyone can be at the other end of a message. A 57 year old man can make a MySpace account and say he’s a 17 year old girl. He can even post pictures of “himself” on his page using any pictures he wants.
With Chad Evans, it turns out he really was a 19 year old from Salem, Oregon. He just didn’t mention that he was into child pornography and exploiting young children.
MySpace can be used as a hunting ground by child predators. Parents need to be aware of what their kids are doing online at all times.
In one case, Sonny Szeto, 22, traveled from Jersey City, N.J., to Connecticut in October and molested an 11-year-old girl in her playroom while her parents slept upstairs, according to an FBI affidavit.
In the other case, Stephen Letavec, 39, molested a 14-year-old Connecticut girl in his car while visiting from Elrama, Pa., in October, according to another FBI report. The FBI said Letavec made several visits to see the girl between last summer and January.
"I showed you what love is and how it feels," Letavec wrote in an e-mail found in the girl's school locker, according to the FBI report. "I want to show you how making love feels too, not just sex because there is a difference."
The girl signed onto MySpace as an 18-year-old, but told Letavec she was 14 before he visited, the FBI said. source
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