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James Nelson: Indiana Teacher Allegedly Caught Sexting Teen Cheerleaders
“A northwest Indiana fifth grade teacher has resigned his post after allegations surfaced that he sent sexually charged text messages to some of the school’s eighth grade cheerleaders. ‘Something tells me ur not the goody good yur mom thinks ur. I can be tempted to play Ru tempting?’ 36-year-old James Nelson allegedly texted to a 14-year-old student from Lake Central elementary school, according to the Indiana Post Tribune.” [Link]
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20% Of Korean Students Are Sexting
“Following research on 1,612 middle and high school students nationwide, 323 respondents, accounting for 20 percent of the total, have engaged sexting, a combination of sex and texting. About 21.9 percent had taken nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves or their peers, while 2.8 percent recorded themselves or their friends’ masturbating or having sex. About 5.2 percent had sent sexually explicit text messages or emails. Many of them said it was just for fun or out of curiosity but about 17 percent said sexting could be a way to flirt with their love interests in the online world. ” [Link]
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Melinda Dennehy: Teacher Accused Of Sending Nude Picture To Student
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“Melinda Dennehy, 41, of Hampstead, turned herself in to Londonderry police and was later released on $10,000 bond. She was placed on administrative leave from her job at Londonderry High School on Wednesday, the day school officials and police were notified about the pictures going around school. The boy who received the photographs told police Dennehy also sent him text messages offering to have sex, and that she kissed him on the mouth in a classroom at least twice in recent months.” [Link]
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Red Cross Haiti Donations Over $21 Million Via Text
“The electronic fundraiser, boosted in its early days by widespread posting on social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, has outstripped the organization’s expectations and is showing no signs of letting up, an official told CNN Monday.” Link
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$11 Million Raised In Texting For Haiti
“The Mobile Giving Foundation called it a ‘mobile-giving record’ for funds raised for a single cause. Donations are rising swiftly, it said, as former President Bill Clinton and other politicians urge the American people to give.” Link
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China Tries To Ban SMS Porn
“MOBILE users in China will be banned from sending short messages if they are found to have distributed pornography or other ‘illegal’ content by phone, state media said Wednesday. China Mobile, the world’s biggest cell-phone operator, is helping Chinese police in a campaign to crack down on ‘illegal short messages’, the Nanfang Daily newspaper reported.” Link
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Poll: 25% Of Teens Sexting
“Sexting — sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online — is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim consequences for those who do it. More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, an Associated Press-MTV poll found.” Link
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Texting Helps Cops Get Around Snitch Stigma
“After struggling for years with an anti-snitching culture that made witnesses too afraid to come forward, police across the country are getting help from text-a-tip programs that allow people to send anonymous, text messages from their cell phones. In Boston, the first city to heavily promote texting for crime tips, police have received more than 1,000 tips since the program began two years ago.” Link
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