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Pedophile Uses World of WarCraft to Meet Girls

by Dan Landis on Jun 30, 2008 at 2:43 am

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An Australian man was arrested recently after he convinced a 15-year-old girl he met while playing World of WarCraft to run away from home to be with him. He even paid for the trip. How sweet.

The 31-year-old Anthony Taylor formed a relationship with the less-than-half-his-age girl, which eventually led to sexual messages and phone calls. The girl’s father found out about the relationship and threatened to kill Anthony, so Anthony did what any self-respecting pedophile would do — he sent her a plane ticket and some money to cover the cab fare.

Obviously, the girl’s father doesn’t let her go, so Anthony is met at the airport by police instead. They question him about the girl, at which time he admits he “thought the age could be a problem.” Really, you think?

Anthony is then brought before a judge, where we find out some interesting facts about his raiding past. Turns out he met his current real-life girlfriend online, though thankfully she’s 27, and he has fathered a child with yet another girl who happens to be under the age of 16.

Anthony pleads guilty to “child stealing” and is sentenced to, and I shit you not, a “seven-month non-custodial intensive corrections order”. I don’t know what that means, but it certainly doesn’t sound like enough.

With rulings such as this, it seems to me that Australia is now the place for lovers… of underage teens at least. Virginia will be confiscating your wallabies since you stole their motto, and hopefully some of that old-fashioned redneck justice makes it down under as well.

Source: news.com.au

Tags: australia, online, pedophile, police, warcraft, World-of-Warcraft, WOW

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John Kershaw

So that's how I can meet more girls.

Dan Landis

I don't know what kind of typing skills this guy has, but he's doing something to make the online girls go crazy.

Kojima Suit Larry

That is just wrong!

PortalPunta

His 27 yr old gf must be a real winner

HombreMega

I wonder how long it will be b4 someone steals that guild name and uses it in WoW.....

madpuppy

Pedophiles deserve one thing, a wood chipper, feet first....

HyruleGangsta

I agree with you madpuppy, only I think they should be shoved in by their privates first.

SeasonedSalt

You know, if an Australian dude would've paid for me to run away when I was 15, I would have sex with him.

Kramer Loves Hecklers

Crazy talk

Bruce Almighty

Bruce has no tolerance for people like this. Shoot them all I say!!

Retarded Penguin

Those who say this guy isn't a pedophile are insane! He got a 16 year old pregnant and she gave birth to a child with him. What is this world....of Warcraft coming to?

Iceman Pwns

I know it is cliche to blame the parents but in a situation like this, I can't help but wonder what type of day to day supervision and visibility her parents have in her life.

Susan

We may have tried to evolve, but are still ruled by our hormones and instincts. I had parents who always picked me up and dropped me off and never allowed a phone in the bedroom or computer. So, I was one of a small group of celibate teenagers who studied and had college-approved extra-curricular activities of volunteering at the hosptial, chess, math science clubs and swimming and water polo teams. To tired to get into trouble.

SeasonedSalt

I don't think 15 is pedophile territory anymore. We've kinda come full circle on that. Way back in the day girls were getting married off at 10 and starting families at 13. Society got all "girl power" and tried to stop that, and now here we are with girls embracing their sexuality, getting their periods at 10, and having babies at 13 anyways. Only difference is that now they aren't married.

Susan

True. Most of the girls at my high school were sexually active and often with a teacher.
Hey, they are there to teach, right? Even in middle school, we knew of kids having sex.
We may have tried to evolve, but are still ruled by our hormones and instincts. I had parents who always picked me up and dropped me off and never allowed a phone in the bedroom or computer. So, I was one of a small group of celibate teenagers who studied and had college-approved extra-curricular activities of volunteering at the hosptial, chess, math science clubs and swimming and water polo teams. To tired to get into trouble.

Aussie Fry Guy

At first I was offended by what I believed to be the implied notion that all Australians are pedophiles, but upon taking the time to read it again I now believe that you are taking offense to the ruling and suggesting that Australia be more stern with those convicted of such acts.

If this is indeed the point you are trying to make then I stress to you that one judge and one ruling does not type cast an entire system.

Dan Landis

I was not "type casting an entire system". For example, if you were to hear that a judge in Utah let a drunk driver off with a warning after he killed somebody, you could say, "well, I guess Utah is a nice place for drunk drivers" because they were so lenient. It's obviously not totally fair to do chastise all of Utah, but people aren't generally nice when they berate you. Yes, I was busting the collective balls of Australia for being as lenient as they were with the guy, but I don't think I worded it in a way that implied I think all Australians are pedophiles.

I also understand that laws are different around the world and I don't expect everyone to do things the way we do. Far from it, actually. I don't want to get into politics or make this article any more serious than some people have already taken it, but suffice it to say that I don't agree with the way America does things either. If you want to bust the United Balls of America, go ahead. I don't take offense to things that are not directed personally at me, and anyone that does is most likely doing so because of their own self-perception.

sporkfjord

SeasonedSalt has a good point.

But I have to ask...

Where in all of WoW did he manage to find a real live 15 year old girl?

madpuppy

there must be a bunch of Pedophile (apologists) on ripten I noticed that anybody that said something bad about pedophiles was given thumbs down. sick bastards...

sporkfjord

madpuppy - I noticed that too, but I also noticed that some of the negmodded comments were either dumbly phrased or needlessly violent. The guy didn't rape the girl (I could come up with some 'sexual messages' by the time I was 15), there was no mention of rape (in b4 the legal vs moral debate) in the story of him getting the 16 year old pregnant, and he has a 27 year old girlfriend in the meantime; the story doesn't make it out as though the 15 year old was resistant to the attention or the plan, and bearing SeasonedSalt's comment in mind, he doesn't necessarily deserve a nuts-first wood chipper excursion. If that seems too tolerant, remember also that there isn't a lot of detail on any of those points in this article.
Or hey, maybe not. It was probably just some Australian guy that came through here. ;P

Susan

My son was approached by a pedophile sending him a personal video of himself stripping to my child's youtube account. My son has me check all his messages since he got a rude one about a guy who likes to shoot cats. My son was 10 at the time. The pedophile was 12. I reported the video to the police and that is the last I know because even though he approached my child, he is a minor and must be protected.
Probably from me.
I overheard my son's classmate girls talking uncomfortably about a girl in the class that tried to touch and kiss other girls and they are all 10 and 11 years old!

Ignorance is bliss. But I can only protect my child by finding them before they find him

Dan Landis

It's funny, Chad and I were talking about that this morning. That's the kind of person Digg brings in, apparently.

SeasonedSalt does make a good case for the other side of this story, though. As wrong as American culture wants me to believe it is, I can't say I disagree with her.

madpuppy

maybe I am getting old, but, if my young daughter was given a plane ticket to Aus and taxi fare to get to the airport so she could have an illicit relationship with some scumbag. a Wood chipper wouldn't be enough. and just because there are many,many young girls out there that risk rape, torture and dismemberment for some fantasy of l-o-v-e doesn't mean that they should be free to chase after it.

sporkfjord

By no means am I suggesting that she should be able to just up and take off to see some guy on the other side of the world whom she met on a game. I'm just saying that out of the things this guy has actually done, we don't know that he is a 'scumbag'. In fact, there are quite a few things we don't know here - what kind of girl she was, what kind of other conversations they had, how much they 'knew' about each other, how long they had been in contact, et cetera. Nothing that would make it necessarily wrong or right, and I am definitely not saying 'let him off the hook.' There are a lot more factors than are available in the article to make it a worthy debate, so I suppose there's really no point anyway.

sporkfjord

LOL Dan. I know exactly what you're talkin' about. Yes, I spend to much time on the internet. Sorry about the double post but I just had to recognize that. :P

madpuppy

Yeah, he could be the greatest "fella" on the face of the planet, but, would you like him to be banging your underage daughter?

sporkfjord

I'm getting the impression that you're missing the point of what I'm writing, so I'll just say, I don't know if I would like him to be banging my underage daughter. Because I don't know him. And I don't know what my daughter is going to be like when she's 15. And while I can see your point and I seriously doubt I would want her to run off with him, or anyone for that matter, a one-sided debate is pointless.

madpuppy

I get what you are trying to convey, she could be a
walking petri dish and have been around the block with older men many times, sure. There is still no way that you can prove to me that this guy is right. what he did was tantamount to cruising junior High schools for a chance to bang a slutty underage girl.

sporkfjord

Case in point. When did I ever try and prove that the guy was right?

madpuppy

you got me, you never said he was right, but, you seem to think that other mitigating circumstances that would show........what?

sporkfjord

...That would warrant this discussion even having a basis. :P
Simply, a lot of people jump to violent things like 'shoot them all' and passing people into a wood chipper from various angles before they even know all the details. I found it interesting.

madpuppy

ok, your apparently a real passive guy. If you came
home one day from work early and walked in on your wife banging the milk man, would you sit on the edge of the bed and wait for them to finish so you can have a long conversation over coffee with the both of them to see what went wrong with you marriage, ask her how you were at fault? and how you can make things better?

sporkfjord

I'm a woman, actually. Srs bsns. And this is an article. On the internet. It's up for discussion, not meant to get personal, and thus I have the right - nay, the responsibility to be passive, so I can be objective. :P
Anyway, I don't see what that scenario has to do with anything we've talked about, especially the bit about me claiming fault. If you can manage to tie that situation event-for-event to the things that I said to you, I will be amused for the day, and you can has +1 internets.

madpuppy

well, that changes everything. there was no hope in the first place. :P

you apparently don't know what deductive reasoning is if you couldn't apply the scenario to yourself.

sporkfjord

The problem with the scenario is it had nothing to do with the article.
You went from someone's daughter being involved with an older man across the globe via the internet, to walking in on my significant other cheating on me in my own bed. I don't see the correlation.

madpuppy

the correlation is emotional. not meant to be similar in any way to the article except for it's emotional value. but, sitting up there it would be hard for you to see that.

I should have known you were a woman, agreeing with what seasonedsalt said:
"I don’t think 15 is pedophile territory anymore. We’ve kinda come full circle on that. Way back in the day girls were getting married off at 10 and starting families at 13. Society got all “girl power” and tried to stop that, and now here we are with girls embracing their sexuality, getting their periods at 10, and having babies at 13 anyways. Only difference is that now they aren’t married."

Nobody who has ever had children and loved them has ever agreed to that sentiment.

only someone that is 15 years old themselves would use that logic to legitimize their own relationship with a Pedophile.

sporkfjord

That wasn't intended to legitimize a relationship with a pedophile. I agreed with her statement simply because it is true that girls used to get married and be sexually active at 13, and only law decides what is technically a 'child' nowadays. I agreed with her because what she said is technically true. I never said it was right. In fact, not once in this conversation have I argued for right or wrong. It helps the discussion if you stop putting words in my mouth.
However, now that you have used gender, immaturity and an emotionally and sequentially unrelated situation to try and prove a point that doesn't even counter mine, I'm through with this. Have a wonderful evening. :)

madpuppy

quitter... blah....

Dan Landis

Would it change your argument at all if I told you that the girl in question is also from Australia? There seems to be this whole "halfway around the globe" argument that doesn't apply because they're both Australian. You're also looking at the facts from an American perspective instead of objectively, and by that I mean that 15 is underage HERE, but it's not underage everywhere in the world. Just something to consider when you start discussing who deserves the wood chipper.