My 20 year old daughter was on a  christian dating site this past weekend, when she came in contact with a guy whos profile said early 20's with a picture.  As they were talking he meantioned that his last relationship was 11 years ago.

My daughter got to thinking that this was not adding up, so she point blank asked him how that could be.  He admitted that he was 43, and this was an experiment to learn how shallow girls were on the internet.

My daughter confronted his lies and he got very angry and started threatening her,  He had been talking sexual to several 18 year olds, and started talking that way with my daughter, before the confrontation.

One women wanted to know what he would say to a 14 year old girl, so she had her daughter talk with him, he got very dirty with her.

My daughter called the sherrif in the state and city where he was from.  This morning she got a call from the sherriff, he told her not to anger the man, he was a murder and a rapist, and had a long list of run ins with the law.

He got a copy of all the coorespondance, from my daughter, the mother with the 14 year old, and several other young women that he was trying to lure.  They were heading to arrest this man.

Be very careful meeting people on the internet, check them out, before ever meeting ask questions.  Never meet alone, meet with some friends, in a public place.  They don't want to meet with friends around don't meet.

Ask for his Pastor's name ask if you could call his Pastor,  If he is not in church don't date him.  If his Pastor says don't persue don't.   Please be careful there are preditors just waiting to lure you.  Pray, trust the Holy Spirit

Very good advice.

Even though we are on a perhaps safer website, anyone can join under the guise  of being a good apostolic person, when in fact, they are not.

Be careful out there.  Good for your daughter..............I hope that they catch that pervert.

Oh my goodness!!!!  How scary....  Well she was raised right ;)    You just dont know people anymore.  Disgusting people.  Uggggg

I am so glad that you brought up this topic again, Reba.  It is a scary world out there.  Someone brought up on an earlier forum as to which is more dangerous...........cable tv or internet.  Internet is hundreds more time dangerous for everyone as anything and everything is at a person's fingertips.

The predators are dangerous.  Many on here go under a username including me (only a few know my real name)...............I have been worried about a few on here since I joined about a year ago or so.

you all worried about me

Sure did!lol

No, you know who I am talking about.  And I have even seen some strange people w/strange ideas on this site.  No wonder some people have bad vibes about a few so-called "Apostolics"!

It is even sadder in real life, when a person doesn't know if the person next to them at school, work, church, etc. is a predator or not.

Sad i tell ya....  and Bro. Lubow of course we are going to worry about you and your family.   :)   

Some people will do whatever they have to do to start trouble like this.  Evil is on this machine we call internet.   That is all I can say about it.  And they teach the kids at such an early age how to use it.  You would think with as much going on and everyone selling security systems for the computer that they just wouldnt start teaching it until later.   Just a thought :)

Who knows right!!!!

My teenage niece just forwarded this story to me.  Parents and kids alike need to read this.  Even though we think that we are safe online, we still need to be cautious.

Here is the fictional story about a teenage girl online:

After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:

ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!

GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?

ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.

GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?

ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.

GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?

ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!

GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?

ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL

GoTo123:
What is your team called?

ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.

GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?

ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!

GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye

Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.

Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina

Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.

By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.

Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.

He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.

After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.

Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.

Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go toShannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.

Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.

"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.

"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."

Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!

"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.

"No," Shannon answered.

"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."

Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"

The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."

Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"

He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"

She nodded.

"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"

"It's a promise!"

That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.

That was a great (and slightly creepy) story!

I am very careful when giving out info on the web, speaking of which I need to make a lot of my on-line info vague, now.