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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lamb)
Mon Sep 20 01:30:24 1999
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:04:43 -0400
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Taken from Yahoo! News:
Yahoo! News Top Stories Headlines
Monday September 20 12:08 AM ET
Disney Exec Arrested In Underage Online Sex Sweep
By Eric Auchard
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The executive who oversees Walt Disney Co.'s Go
Network of Internet sites was arrested after soliciting sex online from an
FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl, a spokesman for federal prosecutors
said Sunday.
Patrick Naughton, 34, of Seattle, was arrested Thursday on the Santa Monica
Pier, an entertainment area near Los Angeles, after he met a female officer
who had arranged to meet him there, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the
U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.
He was charged with interstate travel with the intention of having sex with
a minor, the spokesman said. Naughton was arraigned Friday and released
after posting a $100,000 appearance bond.
``Naughton contacted a young-looking law-enforcement officer who he thought
to be a 13-year-old girl he had been talking to on the Internet,'' Mrozek
said.
On March 8, Naughton started posting lewd messages under the name
``HotSeattle'' in an Internet chat room to a male FBI agent posing as a
13-year-old-girl, the government spokesman said, citing court documents.
The criminal complaint naming Naughton lists at least six online exchanges
leading up to the planned meeting, with the last correspondence taking
place on Sept. 16, the day he was arrested. The online meetings took place
on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), a service that lets users join Internet chat
rooms and communicate via keyboard, often under assumed names.
Naughton, a Disney veteran formerly with its Starwave Web development
operations, now has the official title of executive vice president,
products, at Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq:SEEK - news) . Infoseek is the Internet
media site at the core of Disney's Go Network.
He could not be reached for comment at home in Seattle. Spokesmen for
Disney, Buena Vista Internet Group, Disney's online arm, and Infoseek, were
not immediately available to comment.
An Infoseek manager who declined to be named said the company had fired
Naughton in the wake of his arrest.
Disney is in the process of combining its diverse Internet holdings under a
single company known as Go.com, which would include its Disney Store,
ESPN.com and ABCNews.com with Infoseek's Web search engine and other
Internet functions.
Disney Online is the No. 1 most visited site among kids and their families
on the Internet, according to July statistics from Web market research firm
Media Metrix.
Mrozek said the Internet executive was swept up in an on-going
investigation by a Southern California multi-agency task force known as
Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE), which is conducting undercover
sting operations on the Internet.
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