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Quote from: Tara on June 19, 2006, 03:31:25 PM
The part that got me was when he said " she was willing to covert to Islam" That chick has no idea what that means. No man would ever talk me into moving over there and converting nothing. I'm keeping my happy azz over in America !!
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Quote from: swissmissy63 on June 10, 2006, 10:35:24 PM
Actually the bridge to canada isn't that far from detroit. Kids and adults go there all the time but I think she had her parents fooled into thinking she was a good girl. I also think she got her own plane ticket and had her friends drive her to the airport. :oo
Quote from: pugsly on June 10, 2006, 10:00:38 AM
i have to reply too this i was a victim at one time i was 22 and met a guy and his wife in a chatroom this lady didn't care what her husband did at all she was soo ill she was in bed on so many meds sleeping all the time i was asked to come to fl to help care for her while her hubby worked i thought that all it was going to be soo i moved 2000 miles not thinking of the dangers when i got there i felt i wasn't needed cause i wasn't doing nothing but sitting there then when she slept her hubby tried several times to force me into sex (this is no joke) i got tired of the battle and couldn't face my family at that time after hurting them the way i done soo so i took a real dare and called another guy i met online to come get me (witch is my hubby now) i didn't plan on falling in love with him the way i did i was just going to stay with him a few days to get back home but never went we got married moved out of his mom n dads house i been with him for 4 years now but i did make up with my family but i still hurt inside everyday for my poor choices in the beginning and how i hurt my family
i just hope someone can learn from me....and not make the same poor choices like i done
Quote from: Tara on June 10, 2006, 06:40:16 AM
'MySpace' Teen Returns From Middle East
By DAVID N. GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer
3 hours ago
DETROIT - A 16-year-old girl who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew to the Mideast to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has returned to Michigan.
U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded Katherine R. Lester to turn around and go home before she reached the West Bank. Lester arrived at Bishop International Airport in Flint late Friday and was taken to a private area to be reunited with her family.
She disappeared Monday after talking her parents into getting her a passport by saying she was going to Canada with friends, sheriff's officials said.
She apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, Undersheriff James Jashinske said.
MySpace.com is a social networking Web site with more than 72 million members that lets users post photos, blogs and journals. There have been scattered accounts of sexual predators targeting minors they met through the site.
Lester apparently contacted the man from Jericho about three months ago, Jashinske said. Jericho, a city of 17,000, is a relatively calm area of the volatile West Bank.
The FBI traced the teenager to a Wednesday flight from New York's Kennedy Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel. At a scheduled stop in Amman, Jordan, U.S. officials persuaded her to return home, FBI agent Robert Beeckman said.
"Thank God she was returned safely," Lester's father said Friday afternoon while awaiting her arrival.
Terry Lester said his daughter is a straight-A student and student council member. "She's a good girl. Never had a problem with her," he said.
MySpace forbids youngsters 13 and under from joining and provides special protections for those 14 and 15 _ only people on their list of friends can view their profiles. Older users also have the option of restricting certain personal data so it can be seen only by people they have identified as friends.
Shawn Lester told The Saginaw News that her daughter has "never given me a day's trouble. ... I just don't understand with all these new laws protecting America how a 16-year-old kid could get out of the country." She said her daughter never had a boyfriend and seemed to be content with that.
Katherine and her mother live in Gilford, a village about 80 miles north of Detroit in Michigan's agricultural Thumb region. Her father lives in Grand Blanc Township.
Jashinske said deputies confiscated the family's home computer and were taking it to the FBI's Bay City office for analysis. He said it remained unclear whether any laws had been violated because of Lester's age. The age of sexual consent in Michigan is 16; Katherine turns 17 on June 21.
"I'll be honest with you, we don't know if a crime's been committed," Jashinske said.
Her picture is included in the article.
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/06/10/410436.html&cvqh=itn_myspaceteen
I totally blame the parents here. Do you think for one minute that I would let a child of mine at 16 get a passport and say they were going to Canada and end up in the Middle East? How the hell could that even happen? Who bought the ticket? How does a underage child go to a complete different country across the world? Unfriggen real.
Quote from: ClingFree on June 10, 2006, 07:44:06 AM
My girls are young, dont get me wrong - but Im the nosey parent type. And Im gonna stay that way, Just like my Ma did.
Quote from: bubblegum on June 10, 2006, 10:45:15 AM
Why in the world would a parent let their 16 yr old kid go to a another country (Canada or not) all by themselves? That's pretty stupid on their part.
Quote from: hades on June 10, 2006, 09:34:54 AM
even at sixteen you should have enough sense not to do that tho.lol