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http://kotaku.com/5315187/wow-kidnapper ... -in-prison
The Alabama World of Warcraft player who was arrested last year after transporting his 14-year-old in-game love interest across state lines for sex has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

What seemed like a simple case of transporting a teen across state lines became a much darker story as more details emerged. 27-year-old Morgan Douglas Jones first initiated sexual contact with Saddie "Elaine" Julian in World of Warcraft after his wife of 10 years left him in April of last year. A month later, Jones traveled to Idaho to "help" the teen, who was dealing with family turmoil and dissatisfaction with her life...the same issues most teens in the U.S. face on a daily basis.

Upon arriving in Idaho, Jones first took the girl to his hotel for sex. The couple then left the state the next day, traveling through Oregon and eventually ending up at a campground in Franklin County, Washington, where Jones was finally arrested. Over the course of their trip the couple had sex multiple times, with the adult plying the teen with alcohol and prescription pills.

A manager at a Tri-City hotel also reported that Jones was seen wearing dresses during a brief stopover.

Jones was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Ed Shea, who stated that Jones "offered her no real assistance, and the only thing he wanted within minutes of meeting her was sex. ... This is a person who did evil things to this girl, evil because he knew better."

Once released from prison, Jones will be monitored for a period of 50 years. Along with the prison term, he has also been ordered to cover his victim's extensive therapy bills.

I'd post Jones' own reactions to his sentence and his statements of remorse, but frankly the whole situation leaves me feeling physically ill. If a story like this doesn't get parents to monitor their children's internet usage, then they don't deserve to be parents.
This "might" be enough to get yourself kicked out of CT in the old days although the officers thought is was cute when a guy posed as a pregnant kid and asked other guild members for money and didn't boot him so who knows.
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And Second Life people are firmly grounded in all that is moral and good. :roll:
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You gotta be the dumbest fish in the ocean to bite at that one!
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Winnow wrote:This "might" be enough to get yourself kicked out of CT in the old days although the officers thought is was cute when a guy posed as a pregnant kid and asked other guild members for money and didn't boot him so who knows.
Dakamura... wow, I remember that bullshit.

In related news:
A WoW player living in Indianapolis was arrested after he used in-game chat to threaten to blow up a plane, Indystar.com is reporting. The eighteen year old later told Johnson County sheriffs that he "was going to board a plane at 7:30 to Chicago and that (he) was going to try and kill as many Americans as possible".

His boasts were spotted by a Blizzard employee who called the police after seeing that the WoW player had made serious threats. When arrested, the man claimed his computer had been hacked into and then explained he had meant the statements as a joke. He had apparently made them because he didn't believe that, contrary to popular belief, that doing so wouldn't alert the police.

A Blizzard representative is quoted as saying that the chat logs were "very serious" and didn't seem to be just jokes however she declined to show the logs to indystar.com. The man's PC was seized as evidence and the cased turned over to the FBI. We'll let you know more as we hear it but the moral message here is simple: don't threaten to blow up planes in Azeroth. It's not smart.
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Or Trishadow, who tried killing himself when his wheelchairbound girlfriend broke up with him!
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Winnow wrote:http://kotaku.com/5315187/wow-kidnapper ... -in-prison

A manager at a Tri-City hotel also reported that Jones was seen wearing dresses during a brief stopover.
This was the only part of this article I found *truly* bizarre.
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