Man accused of assaulting girls he met online

Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 6, 2004, 11:31PM | ROBERT CROWE

[ValerieUSA]

A Houston man who met two juvenile girls over the Internet drugged and assaulted them after luring them from their school campus, authorities said.

Navid Ocheghaz Ghahremani, 21, of the 6100 block of Reims was arrested Friday and charged with one count each of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child. Bond was set at $60,000.

Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said Ghahremani met two north Harris County girls on the Internet and picked them up from their private school campus Jan. 30.

The girls, 13 and 14, told their parents they spent the night at the other's house, Constable Ron Hickman said.

Ghahremani drove the girls to a tattoo parlor and assaulted the 14-year-old in the parking lot, Hickman said. After the girls got their ears pierced at the shop, he said, Ghahremani drove them to his southwest Houston apartment and gave them alcohol and ecstasy.

The girls said Ghahremani sexually assaulted them as they floated in and out of consciousness while drugged that night, authorities said.

The girls' affidavits said they suffered injuries to their sexual organs.

Ghahremani is an Iranian national and undocumented alien who has been in the United States since he was age 2, authorities said.

"We are encouraging parents to strongly monitor children's Internet activity," Hickman said.

He said sexual predators who use the Internet to lure juveniles do so by manipulating children's emotions.

"These people gain confidence of children by telling them what they want to hear," Hickman said.

On Jan. 3, Precinct 4 constable's deputies arrested James Alan Louden, 44, of Oldsmar, Fla., charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.

A father told Hickman's office Dec. 23 that he had come across Internet chat text between his 13-year-old daughter and Louden, who met on a romance Web site, investigators said.

They said Louden and the girl met in person around Thanksgiving after she told her parents she was going to spend time with friends.

The two had sex, authorities said, and Louden planned to return to northwest Harris County the weekend of Jan. 3 to see the girl again.

He was arrested when he drove up to her home.

The girl's father had become concerned, Hickman said, after viewing several "racy" e-mails his daughter had received, and he installed a computer-monitoring program that tracks chat room and instant messaging activity.

[ValerieUSA]

Subhead says: Bond set at $60,000 for Houstonian

He's an Iranian

[thoughtomator]

No comment on a culture that encourages barely adolescent children to engage in "sex chat"

[writer33]

A typical scumbag.

[ValerieUSA]

The "culture" does that?
These girls attended private school, and did this chat thing together, then lied to their parents so they could be picked up by this creep. It isn't reported whether this chat access was from home or school.

Does such a pre-arranged assault count as "stranger abduction"?

[luvbach1]

As if we don't have enough native-born scumbags.

[writer33]

As Rush said, "That's why we need illegal immigrants. To commit those crimes Americans don't want to commit. It keeps the cops employed." :) He was being sarcastic at the time.

[Salo]

I've read here that Muslim men like to gang-rape little girls - it's almost an epidemic in France. Looks like the Religion of Peace is making itself known within our borders.

[sine_nomine]

The parents were free to check out the stories with the other parents. It shows how important it is to ask adults what is happening.

[Tamzee]

Sometimes stranger abduction, yes, quite often these monsters lie about who or hold old they are... sometimes the girls come home safely and sometimes they don't. Once in a while they wind up dead.

I lecture about Internet solicitation and child predation... parents really need to stay on top of what their kids do online. Most effective and easiest rule of all? No computer in the child's room... it needs to be out in the open where anyone can walk by at any time.

[pragmatic_asian]

Scott Ritter is pissed. If he had known Muslims would be taking his domestic 'work' he would never have agreed to shill for Saddam. (He received several hundred thousand to make a 'documentary'.) Scott Ritter was not being sarcastic.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Joe 6-pack]

I can think of two things for this guy...

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[dagnabbit]

Ghahremani is an Iranian national and undocumented alien who has been in the United States since he was age 2, authorities said.

Beyond the failure of local, state and federal officials to enforce immigration laws for 19 years in this guy's case - why do I have the sneaking suspicion he's been arrested before and not turned over for deportation as the law demands.

[janetgreen]

Navid the ILLEGAL ALIEN would not have made it to the police station if my husband had been the father of one of these girls.

[liberty or death]

Allowing a child on the internet without supervision is just plain retarded. Most parents I know think their child is just chatting with friends and looking at GI Joe and Barbie websites.
Would you let your child go alone downtown,in any big city at midnight?
If the answer is no then why on the internet? Its 1000 times worse if you don't have proper supervision.

[JustPiper]

Ghahremani is an Iranian national and undocumented alien who has been in the United States since he was age 2, authorities said.

[JustPiper]

Salt Peter Ping!

[lainde]

Dear JustPiper..Wanted to add this to your ping list:
Not Guilty by Reason of Limited English proficiency
US English Inc. ^ | February 2, 2004 | Rob Toonkel

Posted on 02/08/2004 4:43:09 AM PST by lainde

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2004 Contact: Rob Toonkel (202) 833-0100 Not Guilty By Reason of Limited English Proficiency Pennsylvania case illustrates a dangerous future of justice

In a terrifying blow to the future of law enforcement and criminal proceedings, Bucks County [Pa.] prosecutors were forced to drop drug charges against a man after a Pennsylvania Superior Court declared a search void due to the accused's inability to understand English.

After Pennsylvania police pulled over New York resident Miqueas Acosta for driving with an expired safety sticker in June 2000, a subsequent search of his vehicle found a kilo of cocaine hidden in the minivan. Acosta claimed that the drugs, with a street value of $100,000, were not his and that he had only been hired by an acquaintance to drive the van from New York to Philadelphia. In addition, Acosta said that he was confused by the English questions from the officers and felt pressured into authorizing the search. A Pennsylvania court agreed, saying that the officers should have waited for a translator after reading the man his Miranda rights in Spanish, and ruled the drugs inadmissible.

?This case sets a dangerous precedent, said Mauro E. Mujica, Chairman of U.S. English, Inc. It tells Americans that lack of English proficiency is a valid excuse for those suspected of criminal activity. Furthermore, it places an undue burden on police officers working to protect our nation. Will there soon be a need for hundreds of officers, each speaking a different language, to attend to each traffic stop?? Census figures have found more than 325 languages spoken in the United States, including 138 in Pennsylvania.

?Here we have a man driving on some of the most heavily traveled roads in the nation who cannot understand English enough to consent to a search of his vehicle,? Mujica observed. ?Unfortunately, we have more and more drivers on the road just like him, people who cannot understand road signs, report suspicious activity or interact with local law enforcement. We must ask ourselves why, in a nation with more than 44,000 motor vehicle deaths annually, we are licensing drivers who cannot speak English.? In all, more than 21 million Americans are limited English proficient, more than 3.3 million of who can?t speak English at all.

According to information obtained by U.S. English, New York currently offers its driver?s license exam in 21 languages. ?Every language is worthy of being spoken at home and with friends,? said Mujica, who is fluent in four languages. ?But it is ridiculous that states are licensing drivers to operate vehicles on American roads in languages other than English.

?Instead of the multilingual government approach that puts Americans at risk, we must make a commitment to English. A collective effort to promote a common language will not only be a benefit to the safety of our roads, but to the promise of our future.?

U.S.ENGLISH is the nation's oldest and largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States (website: www.usenglish.org). Founded in 1983 by the late Sen. S.I. Hayakawa of California, U.S.ENGLISH now has more than 1.8 million members nationwide.

[FITZ]

What is the age of consent for Muslims? Isn't it something like 11? Mohammed himself had a 6 year old "wife". This guy's culture would say what he did wasn't wrong.

[Dante3]

BUMP