Facebook guide on how to abuse teens taken down

Facebook guide on how to abuse teens taken down

2011-05-26 14:47:51 GMT+7 (ICT)

CASTLEGAR, CANADA (BNO NEWS) -- A webpage posted to the social networking website Facebook which described how to sexually abuse young teenagers has been taken down, but its creators from Canada will not face criminal charges, local media reported on Thursday.

The webpage was created by two Castlegar, B.C., men in their earlier 20s, although their identities were not released, according to CBC News. The webpage included recommendations about which teenagers to target, what music to play, how much liquor to ply them with and what to do if caught by the child's parents. The guide targets teens as young as 13.

Word about the guide eventually spread through the community in Castlegar and reached city hall, where Councillors were so shocked that they alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). "We found it offensive. We found it degrading. There are predators out there and that is exactly that these people are - predators," Councillor Deb McIntosh told CBC News.

According to Cpl. Dan Pollock of the RCMP, the site was 'disgraceful' but the authors posted a disclaimer and were careful to keep it within legal bounds, meaning no charges could be laid. But Pollock warned that the men could be held criminally responsible if someone commits a crime while using the guide.

"It is illegal to counsel someone to commit an offence and the penalty is the same as the offence itself," Pollack told CBC News. "If somebody acts on this, it will come back to you, and there are people who act on this all the time. And literally it was a how-to guide, and I feel disgusted our local youth are doing this."

In late 2010 there was controversy when Philip R. Greaves II posted his book "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" to Amazon's website. The retailer initially allowed the book to be sold, but the website later took it down amid international media coverage.

"This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing [certain] rules for these adults to follow," Greaves' description said. "I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps [lighter] sentences should they ever be caught."

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