(Washington Times)Newspaper HR Director Faces Internet Sex Charges
September 28, 2006 | AP
The human resources director of The Washington Times has been arrested on charges of soliciting a teenager for sex on the Internet.
D.C. police say 53-year-old Randall Casseday of Dobbs Ferry, New York, was arrested Tuesday night in Northeast Washington. He had allegedly arranged to meet what he believed was a 13-year-old girl he had been corresponding with in an online chat room. The person he was communicating with was a detective with the department's Internet Crimes Against Children branch.
Casseday, who rents a room in the Washington area, was charged with attempted enticement of a minor and was due to appear Thursday in U.S. District Court.
Brian Bauman, a spokesman for the Times, says the company is cooperating with authorities and that Casseday has been suspended without pay pending the results of the investigation.
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AREN'T PRIVATE INST. MESSAGES CONFIDENTIAL? How could they become public and be printed all over the newspaper?
Isn't this an invasion of the boy's privacy (assuming it's true that the family did not want this publicized) and of Foley's privacy?
Do we now have to worry that our private IMs are NOT private?
What's that got to do with this issue. There's a million perverts and pedophiles out there.
I don't see the connection.