Graham Fitzgerald, Sky News Online<\/p>\n
The judge said the case was a “salutary lesson for teenage girls and parents rising from the now obvious dangers that can be associated with social networking”.<\/p>\n
Det Supt Andy Reddick, who led the investigation, cautioned against meeting strangers through sites such as Facebook.<\/p>\n
“It’s clear from our investigation that sexual predators are using these sites to target their next victim,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Our message is do not meet people who you have only met on social networking sites.”<\/p>\n
:: Facebook has overtaken Google to become the most visited website in the US for the first time, according to industry analysts Experian Hitwise.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It follows the case of <\/strong>teenager Ashleigh Hall, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a serial sex offender she met on the social networking site.<\/p>\n Paul Chapman killed the 17 year old from from Darlington after posing as a teenager himself and arranging a date with her.<\/p>\n Knowing Ashleigh would suspect him when she saw him arrive as a balding, older man, he sent her a text to say his father was coming to meet her.<\/p>\n He texted: “My dad’s on his way babe”, and when Chapman arrived, Ashleigh texted back: “He’s here babe.”<\/p>\n Chapman, 33, of no fixed address, was sentenced to a minimum of 35 years by Judge Peter Fox QC at Teesside Crown Court.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Sky News Online<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graham Fitzgerald, Sky News Online Home Secretary Alan Johnson is to meet Facebook bosses to ask why it does not have a ‘panic button’ for children concerned about paedophiles, Sky News has learned. The judge said the case was a “salutary lesson for teenage girls and parents rising from the now obvious dangers that can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":187861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[844,94,922],"tags":[2756,2754,717,2753,2755],"class_list":["post-17810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uk","category-world","tag-panic-button","tag-alan-johnson","tag-facebook","tag-home-secretary","tag-sky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}