Man Accused of Using XB Live to Solicit Child Porn

So... let me get this straight. A 10 year old boy, unmonitored by his parents, somehow got in contact with a complete stranger through the XBOX Live, and then took 40 pictures of himself naked and sent them over? Wow, and Parent of the Year goes to...

I hope this sick bastard gets whats coming to him. Granted, the parents should have never left their child unattended playing on Xbox Live, but still, the guy also knew better himself, or should have.

the guy was from "Polk City" wow.

These people(especially this guy) are sick and need to be in jail. There is no way to try to flip this story. People that are blaming the kid/parents are basically denying any wrong doing with this guy aka defend him and are in the same boat.

Just disgusting...

this guy isnt the one solely wrong. both parents and this man are of equal guilt.

Where are the parents? My daughter just turned 13 and I have monitoring/tracking software on her laptop, phone and when she gets a car it will have GPS tracking. When I feel she's responsible enough some things can be modified. We had a long talk and she understands I'm just doing it to keep her safe. I told her I trusted her, haven't looked at any logs, etc and not to give me a reason TO look at the logs and such. 10yo unmonitored on xbox live... unreal.

It is like kids get stupider each year. I bet microsoft will eventually add a feature in which when a account is created, if the user is under a certain age, they have to enter a special password or a email is sent to a parent for confirmation before any images are sent.

for the people that try to get child porn, put them in jail and fine them for expenses due to them being in prison. Our tax money should not go to keep criminals fed and healthy.

the parents should be suckerpunched in the ballz

Thats what happens when you replace the babysitter with a box.

I don't want to downplay this man's actions, but when people do things like this and [i]actually believe they'll get away with it[i], you gotta wonder if they aren't legitimately, mentally handicapped.

Absolutely messed up, child pornography is for sick bastards. Scum of the earth in my opinion. Good that this guy was caught, but seriously what is this kid even doing on Xbox live at the age of 10? shouldn't he be outside riding around and playing sport with his mates? thats what i was doing at 10, not sitting on a online service completely free from parental supervision.

I agree that the parents share a large responsibility, with ANYTHING their child does... They can't however teach their child to be more intelligent -- perhaps a little -- or correct every single bad habit they have. The child could have hopped on their older siblings xbox 360 in the middle of the night, who knows... I do know for sure that it's unlikely any 10 year old would want their parents to know about them taking nude pictures of themselves, let alone sending them over the internet. I'm certain that part was done in secret, and perhaps it was the parents who busted the criminals and got the police on the culprit in the end.

Though regardless of responsibility, we all know the real bad guy here is the dude with the child porn.

Dumb people need to quit multiplying. Really. First of all, the criminal. Don't you have to pay for XBL service by credit card? D'oh! Secondly, the victim. If you're going to let your children play online, don't you think you should be smart enough to use parental controls? Nice parenting job (sarcasm).

Very good information! Thank you so much!

And no one here finds it odd that the kid pretty much sold pictures of himself for xbox points? Last time I checked, the creation and distribution of child pornography is an offense even if it is of oneself (previous cases like this DO punish children for self-distribution).

I admit I'm clueless about XBL, but why is there even an option to send photos? How else is this feature used?

growing up in my parents house our nes playing was monitored. then when the age of personal pc's hit ours were always in the family room under their watchful eye. that was when 14.4 was the fastest connection. my point is this there are predotars everywhere, you take your kids to the park you watch them. when your kids are playing in an environment that is online you watch them. get the game systems and the pc's out of their room and put them in a general living space until they are old enough to have them in their own room.

You have got to be kidding.. I was smart enough by the age of 10 that if I wanted to be part of a group in some game I wouldn't be required to send naked photos of myself.. come on.. about as pathetic as it can get for peoples sexual motivation, really.

man this kid got off easy, having to send naked pics of himself. for my microsoft points i had to go to all the trouble of providing naked pics of my mom and other hot neighbors.

Good parenting skills, what happened? did they skip the part of "don't cross the street without looking, don't take pictures of yourself naked and send them over"
I the pedophile should burn in hell, and the parents... well some where less hot...

IMO microsoft should have better measures in place. The parents are responsible for the most part because they shouldn't let their child be online period without supervision. My son's live account was monitored by me all the time.. however i still was evolved with the games and people he was playing with... But this is a paid service and I feel that microsoft could do a lot more to protect kids in general... as for the freak predator.. he should suffer... and im sure he will.. in one way or another.

You know it's a bad situation when the kid gets payed in Microsoft space bucks. Poor kid got manipulated, and than bastard will probably get out of jail in 5 years and do something like that again. I'm all for the rehabilitation of sex offenders, I really have hope, but 9 times out of 0 it doesn't work.

I am a firm believer in limited gaming interaction with adults for my kids, put the sick and depraved pedophile issue aside for a moment, look at the way adults game, trash talk is very common place even though it is in violation of the tos of live, young children are very impressionable, a regular routine of trash talk from an adult could cause some serious mental health issues, live has no place for children in its current state in my opinion, they let you choose your gamer style recreation, underground etc. but then lump you in with the general population, until they separate the men from the boys per se, there will be many more issues to come. It's the same as a seven year old having a face book account(virus plagued waste of bandwidth social disease of the interwebs) So the question here is, who is to blame? I feel all parties involved, Starting at the parental level, live is a subscription for gaming interaction not baby sitting fees. Micro$oft for placing profit as their number one above human life, do they care or have any concern about this kid? only if it makes a buck. We as a society must take blame for the over stimulated social networking that has become a norm. And the #1 slot is for the offender, even in a diminished mental state we all know right from wrong no matter how strong our compulsion's are. He will be punished all though the sentence probably wont fit the crime. Where is Chris Hansen when you need him?

Why am I lagging? STOP DOWNLOADING PORN! AHA....but seriously, I hope that guy gets locked up for good....those parents should get in some trouble too.