Sober Helps Catch Child Porn Offender

By the Betanews Staff | Published December 20, 2005, 3:13 PM

For once the never-ending Sober worm actually did some good. A 20 year-old child porn offender turned himself in earlier this week after mistaking a message generated by the worm as an actual communiqué from Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. The e-mail said "an investigation was underway," which apparently spooked the man into believing the authorities were aware of his online activities.

He was charged after police found pornographic images of children on his computer. A spokesman for the Paderborn, Germany police credited the worm with uncovering a crime that probably would have otherwise gone undetected. There is no word whether the worm has helped uncover any other crimes.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

god... i mean its good it happened .. but wat a retard

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Its not gonna help now cus everyone knows
noobs @frankwick: howd u know? u a pedo?

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nope, but I can't stand the scum!!!

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LOL

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His jail time (if any) will not be enjoyable. Criminals hate pedophiles and treat them in very unspeakable manners. He is going to be sore.

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Big deal-- the guy only looked at such stuff...

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That would make him a class 2 pedophile, but still a pedophile. It is against to law to even have drawn images of underage children in sexual positions, or even an adult dress and acting like a child.

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YEh, i know the law-- but laws don't always make sense-- I say that for educational/iformation purposes he was looking--

I read terrorist & bomb manuals-- so?

Anyhow, the videos coulda been of agressive pre-kinder hussies who seduced Forrest Gump-types into filming them...

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You tell me what educational/information purposes you need to look at child pornography?!

People like you make me sick. He gave himself up, he is a Paedophile.

From Definition of a Paedophile (http://www.australianpar...law.com/docs/whatis.tpl):
Paedophiles who commit offences rationalise their conduct and do not believe that they have done anything wrong.

What have you got to say to that? I now know what to think of you.

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Ask Pete Townsend, he may have an answer to your definition question.

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Seems that regardless of whether you know the law or not, and I don't think you do in this instance, he was/is an offender and not only that, he turned himself in.

Your Forrest Gump comment reminds me of the Flip Wilson expression, "The Devil made me do it." Yeah, right!

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Or better yet, ask Pewee Herman(not re the theater, re his non-erotic mag collection that still caused problems).
Everyone chill out, take a humor pill, & don't get your panties in a tizzy.
You're falling prey to media sensationalist headlines for ratings purposes: there was no action involved 'cept for looking at a computer screen while alone & in private.
Now, just about anything beyond that is another story altogether. (btw: al-to-get-her, LOL!)
Of course, pre-kinder hussy was sarcastic(line from a long-ago Robert Downey movie), but go to any 3rd/4th grade class & see how most dress already-- or take a poll of 5th/6th graders & count the few that have NOT yet flashed or more on a webcam.
PS Relax, i don't look at kiddie porn, nor freqent chat rooms for minors--- i just posess mucho common sense.

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I don't care what you say. I know what I think of you now. Every time I see a post of yours, pedo will pop into my head.

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Than dummy must have picked up that worm from one of those seedy free pornography web sites makes me gald to see he turned himself in

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Well great, just let out the news and tell all the rest of them!

Should have kept this quiet, maybe other morons would fall for it.

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Haha, Atleast the virus was good for somthing!!! Rather than being an anoying e-mail worm! Man for about a month my junk box was filled with "you visit Illegal websites" or "your IP was logged" and "here is your new password!" stuff like that...all with nice lil attached zip files lol. Got so annoying!

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Great. It'll catch the morons at least, so that they can concentrate on the creeps that acutally *have* brains.

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So what did they say when you turned yourself in man???? LOL!!!

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hahahahaha

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Haha! :D

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what a dumba**

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You got that right. This reminds me of the famous Forrest Gump quote: "stupid is as stupid does". Ha! serves the imbecil right.

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