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Black Market Infertility
Infertile couples that wish to have a child together are illegally buying medications to increase their chances of having a baby. Without insurance to cover the expenses, couples are taking to the internet to find the medicine they need.
Tags: drugs; sex; fertile; infertile; kids; medical care; medical insurance
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Brian Ross Investigates: Conduct Unbecoming
"In a year-long series of stories for World News and Nightline, ABC News' chief investigative correspondent and his team reported on a pattern of unbecoming and unethical behavior in offficial Washington that culminated in the revelation's of Congreeman Mark Foley's sexually-explicit internet messages with high school students who served as Congressional pages." Stories in the series also examine some of the consequences from the lack of an ethics code for the Supreme Court and a probe of unethical behavior of a retired U.S. General.
Tags: broadcast; financial disclosure forms; lobbyist Jack Abramoff; Congressman Tom Delay; Congressman Mark Foley; instant messaging; Congressional Pages; House Ethics Committee; Kyle "Dusty" Foggo; CIA; Air Force; Department of Defense Inspector General's Office; Federal Election Commission; Political Money Line; Federalist Sociey; legal ethics; Supreme Court; Congress; Pentagon; influence peddling; FBI; IRS; Brent Wilkes; Taxpayers for Common Sense; Keith Ashdown; Porter Goss; Thunderbirds; General T. Michael Mosely; Senator Tom Coburn; General Hal Hornburg; Project on Government Oversight; Danielle Brian; U.S. Trademark Office; General John Jumper; Blue Angels; midterm elections; access; Campaign Legal Center; Gerry Hebert; pay to play; House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children; sexually explicit messages; sexual exploitation; graphic language; solicitation; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert; Internet sex; FBI investigation; Congressman Tom Reynolds
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Slain Pagan Targeted in Drug Probe; State Police Lose Track of Sex Offenders; Trapped in Despair; White Supremacy in the Internet Age; Delaware's Deadly Prisons; Wilmington's Deadly Streets; Deadly Force; Resisting Arrest
These eight investigations show Williams' commitment to crime reporting. They run the gamut from exploring the neo-Nazi presence on the internet to monitoring how effectively the police track sex offenders.
Tags: religion; paganism; drugs; sex offenders; low-income housing; Section 8 housing; white supremacy; Internet crimes; prisons; civil rights violations; police corruption
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On Duty Spokane Firefighter Accused of Raping Teenage Girl
This investigation began with a press release that said an unnamed local firefighter had been placed on paid administrative leave after an alleged rape was reported by a 17 year-old girl. The reporters used city payroll documents to reveal the firefighter's name. They then learned that the firefighter had used city-controlled computer equipment to contact the girl on an internet sex site. They also learned that the firefighter had taken digital pictures of the sexual encounter, but city police detectives deleted the pictures, supposedly to protect the victim. This lead to a second investigation, this time into the conduct of the police detective for destroying evidence.
Tags: rape; sex crimes; police corruption; local government; public records; firefighters
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To Catch a Predator
Dateline NBC set up hidden cameras inside a rented Northern Virginia house in order to catch men on the Internet who were trying to have sex with minors. During their investigation, 19 men showed up at the house because they thought they were about to have sex with a minor. This report brought attention to "one of the fastest growing crimes in America" and also offered suggestions to parents on how to make computers safer for children.
Tags: Pornography; sexual predators; computers
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Dangerous Web
Dateline went online to impersonate children, logged onto chat rooms and then pretended to allow themselves to be lured into meetings with men who wanted to have sex with them. In hidden camera interviews Dateline showed 18 men in two days who arrived at a house set up by Dateline where the men thought they would have sex with underage teens. When questioned by Dateline, they came up with a whole litany of excuses for their behavior.
Tags: internet sex predators; child sexual abuse; undercover investigation
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Internet predators
This KCTV investigation probed the claims of the group Perverted Justice, which exposes men who use the Internet to prey on children. A member of Perverted Justice would pose as a minor in an Internet chat room and wait for an adult man to approach the "minor" about sex. The "minor" would then arrange to meet the man at a home rented by KCTV. After four days, 30 men made appointments to meet the "minor" for sex. Sixteen came to the door and were confronted by the news crew. The investigation showed how prevalent and serious the problem of Internet predators is.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Internet predators; sex crimes; cybercrime; sexual predators
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"Stalking the stalkers"
This investigation set out to show the dangers associated with the Internet for children. A reporter posed online as a 13-year-old girl; it took only minutes for men to respond. While the reporter was certain not to lure or solicit, the men performed sex acts on their Web cams. Those who made travel arrangements to rendezvous with the fictitious 13-year-old were confronted, and the station's reports prompted investigations of two men followed by indictments.
Tags: Internet; Web; sex crimes; teens; stalkers; pedophiles
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"Karmelin Investigation"
A consumer affairs story about Web cameras and the dangers they pose to children took a dramatic turn when an assistant state attorney was caught on a Web cam exposing himself to and propositioning who he believed was a 13-year-old girl. WFTV immediately notified police. The man was suspended and later resigned, though prosecutors declined to press charges.
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New Yorkers resist sex schemes of horny downtown webmeisters
Andy Fair and Josh Harris both set up internet porn sites designed to show live feeds of sex without being staged. They both planned to put webcams in a house, find beautiful people to live there, and then broadcast it on the web for a profit. Unfortunately for them, though, sex didn't happen.