<p>HOGANSVILLE, Ga. - A man is being held on false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy charges after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met online text-messaged his family claiming he was being held against his will on the mans west Georgia farm, police said.</p>
<p>A judge set a $1 million bond Friday for Ted Roy Williams, 58, who was arrested a day earlier. Police continued questioning the teen Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>Williams met the boy on the online networking site MySpace.com two weeks ago and convinced him to visit him in Georgia, Troup County Sheriffs Lt. Rick Massie said. Williams, who bought the teens plane ticket, picked him up Thursday morning at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, took him to his rural home and immediately began sexually abusing him, Massie said."
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<p>So a 17 year old goes to Georgia to meet some guy…I don’t blame myspace, I blame the adult, and the kid, sorry, but did he tell mom and dad where he was going? how did he pay for the ticket…this kid made a choice to go see someone, foolishly…what was the kid expecting when he got there…</p>
<p>I do not blame the kid for getting attacked, but he does hold some responsibility for very poor judgement, lying to his parents, traveling cross country, etc…it wasn’t like he got snatached of the street, but he made some pretty delibrate moves to meet someone he did not know</p>
<p>I feel really bad he was raped, and that is not his fault, but stupid choices, and very planned out ones, that is his fault…</p>
<p>I’m not blaming Myspace either. I posted the story so that parents can yet again warn their kids about the dangers of meeting people through the Internet. I also posted it so that kids using CC can understand those danges.</p>
<p>These stories are always so curious to me. Where did the kid get the money to travel that far? Where did his parents think he was going (I didn’t read the article; that information might be in there)?</p>
<p>I don’t think one has to hover over their kids, but this story is so odd to me. It isn’t like the kid went to the local mall…he went a thousand miles away! There is some responsibility on the part of the kid…and of the parents (guardians, whomever).</p>
<p>This guy must’ve been good seeing how he lured a kid away from MA and all the way to GA. He should’ve just tried to get some kid that lived near him but went through all the trouble to get someone over a thousand miles away.</p>
<p>On a similar subject, why in the world are we allowing under 18 year olds to be pages at the US Congress. I am sure the original intention of the program was noble. The current scandal with the Florida Congressman shows that our lawmakers cannot be trusted with under age children.</p>
<p>I would like somebody to answer this question for me: why are there so many child predators in this world? They are just the lowest of the low in my opinion. Don’t they realize it’s illegal? What is the attraction? I don’t understand it but I know that it infuriates me.</p>
<p>“The current scandal with the Florida Congressman shows that our lawmakers cannot be trusted with under age children.”</p>
<p>Mcvik, what percentage of Congressmen do you believe attempt sexual contact with Congressional Pages? That’s a pretty broad statement you just made. Would you like to amend it?</p>
<p>Most older men fantasize about younger people (the legally “underaged”) or people around that age (think Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Emmy Rossum, Lindsay Lohan, Keira Knightley), even their own children. Disturbing? Yes. Because society has conditioned us to think that way. Just look around you, in the streets. Be more watchful of the younger people and the men that pass them by. It’s hard to miss the glances, even if restrained (or more importantly, deliberate efforts by the men not to look). So yes, I would argue that attraction for (much) younger people is a natural instinct in men. The people labeled “predators” are simply the ones who fell through the cracks, according to our society’s laws. Their natural urges were so strong that they acted upon them. Yes, they can be held accountable, only because they were aware of our society’s laws in choosing to commit the act, not necessarily because what they were doing was inherently “wrong” (for that is a subjective term defined by the culture one is in). Such “predators” are victims of nature, because society’s laws restrain their natural urges. There are of course very good reasons for the implementation of such laws (based on ideals of how our society should be), but we should keep everything in perspective. Sexual behavior between adults and “minors” is perfectly legal in some cultures (i.e. Etoro), and I don’t think we’re in a position to tell them whether their practice is wrong or right. In other words, yes, in our society, “predators” are and should be held accountable, simply because they chose to take part in this society and broke one of its laws (by committing a certain act). But I don’t think they can be blamed for having this attraction, which we deem “perverted” and “sick.” They are victims of nature.</p>
<p>'tisthetruth, what’s perverted and sick isn’t just the age of the victims. It’s the sick and twisted abuse of power. These young men had to have been quite well aware that a powerful Congressman like Mark Foley could easily ruin their lives, and Foley would have been aware that they knew. </p>
<p>And I don’t consider Mark Foley a victim of anything in this, least of all nature. He was in a better position than anyone to understand that what he was doing was wrong.</p>