Amy's Story

This is the website we had looked up of an article related to Internet Safety, http://www.netsmartz.org/news/amystory.htm

Summary:
Basically what had occurred was that a 15 year old girl named Amy had asked her mother, Sara if she could sign up for internet service at home. Sara had said that Amy had already made an email and had been going online at the public library and at school. Amy had met this guy named Bill in an online chatroom and she had many personal conversations with this man. He had lured her into meeting him, and he told her things like he was in love with her and he faked that he was sympathetic for her problems and all. She fell for all of it and she went to meet him. Her mother had called police and contacted the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). She had Bill's address and they sent a detective to investigate the man's home. He had seen a man and a girl exit a taxi, and they had to convince Amy to come home and they wouldn't press charges on Bill until she agreed to go home. 3 weeks had past and a man had come over to Sara and Amy's home. Amy had snuck out of the house and Bill had assaulted her in a motel in their home town. Detectives and polices were spying on them and had approached them at the bus station. Bill was convicted and sentenced to a year term in federal prison. Bill was released in April 2001 to the United States Probation Office where he was placed on probation for three years.

*Names in the article/summary had been changed to protect the privacy of the victim and her family.