Brit Perv Cyber-Stalks Kids

Adrian Ringland is a 36 year old father of two. He is too stupid to hold a job, so he spends his spare time stalking children on the Internet. He sends emails to his victims that contain a trojan horse program, like SubSeven, which allows him to take remote control of the victim’s PC. Once he is on the PC, he frightens his victim into sending him dirty pictures of themselves. Once he gets the pictures, he blackmails his victims into giving him dirtier pictures under threat of posting the photos on the Internet or giving them to their friends on the victim’s buddy list. Or if pictures won’t do, he will convince the young girls to have sex with him.

Now he is locked away. From the BBC here:

Adrian Ringland, 36, appeared at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday. He admitted two charges of indecency with a child, four of hacking, four of blackmail and 10 offences of making indecent photographs of a child.

The offences involved two girls in Britain and one in Canada. One of the girls said Ringland’s level of skill and the power he had over her PC reminded her of the science fiction film Matrix.

Another victim described her ordeal as “internet rape” and spoke of committing suicide, while a third told police she felt as if she was being “stalked”, and was so “terrified” that it almost seemed as if the man was in her house.

Ringland also admitted six charges of unlawful intercourse and one of internet grooming. Thirteen similar charges involving a number of 15-year-old girls were ordered to remain on file.

The court heard Ringland posed as a teenager in a chat room to gain the girls’ trust. Once he had their e-mails, he used a sophisticated software to hack into their systems, moving cursors and in one case opening and closing the CD Rom drawer.

The father-of-two then blackmailed them into sending revealing photographs of themselves. The court was told that once Ringland felt he had the youngsters under his control he forced them to send more explicit images. He warned that if they refused, he would send the pictures he already had to their friends, or wipe valuable information from their computers.

A 14-year-old victim in Manitoba, Canada, ignored the threats and told her parents, who alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. An extensive investigation then traced him back to his home 4,000 miles away.

Unemployed Ringland was arrested by local police and bailed. During a random police check Ringland was caught having sex with a 14-year-old girl he had groomed on the internet.