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A Massachusetts man remains jailed today on charges he allegedly came to the city three times last year to have sex with a 13-year-old Detroit girl he wed in an online video game.
John W. Phillips, 54, of Fitchburg, Mass., is charged with 11 felonies including sexual assault, using a computer to communicate with another person to commit a crime, accosting a child for immoral purposes and child sexually abusive activity. The maximum sentences for the charges range from four to 20 years in prison.
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon said Phillips met the girl while playing RuneScape online and that they chatted online through the game in 2010. He said Phillips unsuccessfully attempted mailing the girl a cellular telephone.
So Phillips brought her the phone in person in February 2010 and had sex with the girl at an Eastpointe motel, Napoleon said. Phillips also is accused of having sex with the girl in his van and at her home.
Napoleon said Phillips and the girl wed in the role-playing game, which allows players to assume identities and interact with other players, some of whom live in other countries.
"They got married in the game," sheriff's corporal Ray Johnson said. "Maybe he thought that was legitimate in real life. It's not."
An investigation was launched into the man after the girl's mother discovered her exchanging texts with someone using a cellular phone, Napoleon said. The girl wasn't supposed to have a phone.
Phillips eluded capture while visiting with his father in upstate New York, Napoleon said. He also dyed his hair, grew out his beard or cut it to alter his appearance and keep police off guard, Napoleon said.
"He didn't want to come back to Michigan and face charges," Napoleon said.
Phillips was arrested in New York and fought extradition to Michigan. It took several law enforcement agencies working together to make the case he needed to face charges here, officials said.
He was arraigned Jan. 13 and faces a pretrial hearing on Thursday in 36th District Court.
The Wayne County Sheriff Office's Internet Crimes Unit sought out Phillips but it took help from the Michigan State Police, Wayne County prosecutors, U.S. Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors and police in Massachusetts and New York to nab Phillips, officials said.
Phillips doesn't have a criminal record, and it appears his only source of income comes from selling "Magic: The Gathering" game cards.
Johnson said the girl's mother worked two or three jobs and wasn't home for extended periods of time.
Michigan State Police Lt. Tom Kish said predators are starting to move from chat rooms to video games that allow players to interact over the Internet and through text messaging.
"It is easy for children to be contacted in nontraditional ways," Kish said. "Internet use has to be monitored."
The alleged victim is undergoing counseling, Napoleon said.
"This has been traumatic for her," he said.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110208/METRO01/102080398/Man-accused-of-having-sex-with-Detroit-girl-he-wed-in-video-game#ixzz1DQTBe5zwA Massachusetts man remains jailed today on charges he allegedly came to the city... more
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A Dutch court confirms the obvious: virtual goods, such as Facebook gifts or World of Warcraft gold, are real goods. And if you steal them, it's theft.
The novel legal finding comes after two punk kids in the town of Leeuwarden attacked a 13-year-old boy, beat him up, and forced him at knifepoint to log in to the online game RuneScape and transfer an amulet, a mask, and his game credits to their account. (Now that's engagement.)
The judge ruled "goods don't have to be material for the law to consider them stolen." Sentence: 160 hours community service.
It's noteworthy than a judge (at least in the Netherlands) said that virtual goods, which naysayers will contend are nothing but ones and zeros with no intrinsic value, are real goods that can be stolen. Thirty years ago software in general had to make the same struggle for recognition as an actual product. But one question we have for any Dutch legal scholars in the audience: Why did the judge focus so closely on the theft of virtual goods and not the assault of threatening someone with a knife?A Dutch court confirms the obvious: virtual goods, such as Facebook gifts or World of... more
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Barbara Case, 36-years-old married mother-of three who flew 9,600 miles to seduce an Australian boy of 15 she met on gaming site Runescape was freed to return to her family in the US as soon as possible.
She admitted having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 16 and was sentenced to 16 months in jail, suspended for two years on condition she does not commit a similar offence.
Case now faces possible FBI charges when she returns home.
She flew to Melbourne and spent 10 days in n a holiday park cabin with the boy performing sex acts on him. The pair had intercourse on eight occasions and engaged in oral sex three times according to court documents.Barbara Case, 36-years-old married mother-of three who flew 9,600 miles to seduce an... more
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Java-based massive multiplayer online game RuneScape on Monday is increasing its detail level for all users. It's the second major graphical overhaul the service has undergone since launching in 2001 and is noticeably better than previous iterations.
Part of that change is the further utilization of the player hardware, which has made considerable improvements over the years due to GPU-intensive operating systems like Windows Vista and OS X Leopard. Runescape HD doesn't need a $400 graphics card, though it'll play on any machine with a 64MB 3D Graphics card or an equivalent thereof. Players also need a 1.5GHZ or faster processor with 256MB of RAM. Basically, if you can run iTunes, you'll be able to play this.
Geoff Iddison, CEO of parent company Jagex, tells me that one other benefit of the graphical jump is that players are now able to play the game in full screen. Previously, they had to view it in a window within their Web browser, which he says killed some of the immersion. Users who are feeling nostalgic can still jump back to the old version at any time, a feature the company is planning to keep around until higher-end hardware has become ubiquitous.
The service pulls in about 6 million unique active users a month with more than a million of those users buying into the $5 monthly subscription service. Iddison says that the percentage of paying members has made the experience possible for the free users, who see on-screen ads to supplement their time. Paying users also get access to approximately 60 percent of the content that free users do not.
I've embedded a comparison video of old and new below, although it's in YouTube, which kills some of the graphical differences. Java-based massive multiplayer online game RuneScape on Monday is increasing its... more
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