12-year-old's calls to phone-sex line spurs mother to action

The Virginian Pilot ^ | 1/20/05 | MELISSA SCOTT SINCLAIR

[wagglebee]

It's nice to see that this woman finally got her son some help, but it seems to me she waited a little to long.

[cyborg]

I had a 'guy' answer a personal ad I posted on AOL once. I called him to talk and his MOTHER answered the phone. She made me feel like some child molester and I told her 'Excuse me lady but your son is going around telling women he's twenty five and giving out your home number to people he doesn't know. Don't get mad at me. ' That was the last time I had a personal ad online. Oh yeah the boy turned out to be sixteen.

[WOSG]

"Davis started hiding the phone and got a counselor to talk to the boy. He believed he was being unfairly separated from his girlfriend and had become aggressive and angry, she said."

This boy has a serious attitude problem.

This is the kind of stuff corporeal punishment exists for.

[wagglebee]

And just think, you could have made $5 a minute talking dirty to him! :)

[cyborg]

LOL yeah hehehe

[aft_lizard]

My sister once called a psychic hotline and ran up a bill of 600 dollars. I called the billing agency and they told me I had to pay and refused any other answer. I called the phone company and asked them to call and verify who made the calls and to double check them against who pays the bill and to remove the charges if they dont match. THey did and I never heard anything from that company again.

[Sonny M]

This is the kind of stuff corporeal punishment exists for.

Corporal, hell, It'd be Major Pain.

[ShadowDancer]

And her son, now almost 15, is doing better.

He's moved on to call girls that you actually see when you pay for them.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

The police told Davis the woman hadn’t committed any crime; it would be different, they said, if she met her son in person or gave him pornographic material.

It isn't illegal to engage in sexual phone conversations with a child?

[cyborg]

Waited too long is an understatement. I sense more to this story than what's covered. Where's the father?

[ShadowDancer]

How old was your sister?

[konaice]

Davis’ ensuing struggle with the astronomical phone bills have led her to the General Assembly, which will consider a bill this session to keep “pay-per-call” businesses away from juveniles.

I actually think allowing the phone companies to become billing agents (bag men) for other companies was a mistake of monumental proportions.

The whole thing should be outlawed, Ive never yet seen any 900 number with anything to add to society other than as an illicit way to scam people.

Just stop it Cold!

[Army Air Corps]

I have known too many people who have had bad experiences with personals ads on the internet. A friend of a friend met a woman online who turned out to be a stripper in her late thirties (this guy was not yet 21). The last that I heard, he lives in Las Vegas with the stripper. It could be worse, she could have been an axe murderess.

[AppyPappy]

It isn't illegal to engage in sexual phone conversations with a child?

It should be. It should be the same as selling beer to minors.

[cyborg]

Yeah could have been worse. A person has to be careful. I just don't do the online dating thing anymore. All the FReeper women trying to marry me off doesn't count ;o)

[SuziQ]

Frankly, I'd like to see some legislation that keeps folks from sending porn e-mail! I have Spam detection software, but somehow it gets through. In my opinion, they are like obscene phone calls; unsolicited and unwanted.

I'm thinking of forwarding them to my Congressional Representative to see how HE likes them! Maybe something would get done.

[aft_lizard]

16

[wagglebee]

The father is probably in prison or nonexistent.

[ShadowDancer]

16? And she didn't know better?

[Army Air Corps]

That's what we need, a match-making service for Freepers. It needs a catchy name; something witty and pithy.

How many FR ladies are trying to get you hitched? Is it some sort of multi-pronged team effort?