Man robbed at knifepoint by woman he met on an online dating site

Finding the perfect mate may not always be the intention of certain people who are viewing your photos and online dating profiles. 

 

Recently a 28-year-old  woman was charged with first-degree robbery after she allegedly threatened her date, a man she met on an dating website, with a knife and stole his money. 

 

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NJ cyberbully forwarded lewd photos, gets 45 days

Source: The Associated Press

By: Maryclaire Dale

A New Jersey man who used a teen's lewd online photos to cyberbully him is going to prison for 45 days.

Prosecutors say 20-year-old Bergenfield resident Matthew Bean joined an "electronic mob" that tried to drive the victim to suicide.

U.S. District Judge Anita Brody calls the crime "extremely malicious." She says she hopes it teaches the victim and other teens "the stupidity of sexting."

The teen had posted the sexually explicit photos of himself when he was 12 or 13. The FBI says they surfaced on a website five years later.

Bean admits he forwarded the photos to the teen's Philadelphia-area school. The victim didn't commit suicide and is now in college.

Bean also will serve five years of probation after pleading guilty to a federal stalking charge.

Dear Abby: Online Reputation is Key in Today's Job Market

Dear Abby:

A former student asked me to write a character reference to help her land a teaching job abroad. I agreed, since I thought highly of her potential as a teacher and scholar, and her level of character. However, after she was placed in the classroom, the ministry of education of the nation where she was to teach discovered some inappropriate posting on her social networking site.
Because I had written the recommendation, they contacted me asking if they had a problem and provided me with copies of what they had found. Her posting detailed a history of forging fake IDs to buy alcohol while underage, numerous episodes of binge drinking in high school and college, marijuana use and several exhibitionistic stunts and sexual activities that I won’t mention. I was shocked. None of this matched the person I thought I knew.

When I tried to contact her to let her know she had been discovered, she rebuffed my inquiries and cut off all contact. Her parents’ response was denial and to “kill the messenger.” I have been left with the problem of how to respond to the ministry’s questions.

Ordinarily, I would not want my signature associated with someone with those behaviors and attitudes, but this young woman is in legal jeopardy abroad. I still don’t know if what she wrote is true, but I find it highly problematic that she would portray herself as she did.

This situation has so shaken my trust in the character and judgment of the 20-something crowd that I’m now reluctant to write recommendations for any of my students. What do you think I should have done? I’m concerned that too many of these young people, however intelligent, lack integrity, character, judgment and common sense.

Heartbroken Teacher
Oakland, California


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