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Ill. Sex Offender Busted for Not Registering His MySpace Page

By Corey Rayburnyung

The State of Illinois requires sex offenders to register with law enforcement various online identifying information, including "all blogs and other Internet sites maintained by the sex offender or to which the sex offender has uploaded any content or posted any messages or information."  Unsurprisingly, this registration requirement has recently resulted in the arrest of one sex offender for having a MySpace page. From KMOV: Police busted a convicted sex offender for operating a Myspace web page.Gregory Kruckeberg, 27, was arrested thanks to a news law in Illinois.Captain Brad Wells of the Madison County sheriff's office said it doesn't appear Kruckeberg used the site for anything illegal."It's not illegal to have them but they have to let law enforcement know of those emails addresses or internet sites they maintain which would include Myspace or Facebook or any social networking sites," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).