Website Shuts Down Teen Section After Sexual Assault of Muskego Boy
Man who was caught assaulting 13-year-old boy, met him on Skout.com, which has since decided to no longer cater to minors.
A meet-up site with a teen community section has decided to suspend access to its teenage users after one too many connections ended up in sexual assaults of minors. The most recent involved 21-year-old Daniel R. Schmidt of Waukesha, who posed as a 16-year-old to enter the forum. He arranged to pick up a 13-year-old boy in Muskego, who had sent pictures of his naked genitals to Schmidt and the two eventually arranged to meet, according to the criminal complaint. "We know how much Skout means to our teen community, and, at Skout, our community means everything to us," Skout CEO Christian Wiklund wrote in a blog post. "For now, we believe that there’s only one thing we can do: until we can design better protections, we are temporarily …
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1:04 pm on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Denise, the child is 13 years old and unable legally to consent. He's a child, and this adult took advantage of him. This is the real issue that we, as a society need to learn from.... more ›