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Not everyone in the Internet chat room is a friendRandy Hanson, Hudson Star-Observer
It
took
Investigator
Timothy
Harris
five
minutes
to
learn
the
home
address
and
phone
number
of
a
Woodbury
High
School
cheerleader
who
posted
her
profile
on
www.myspace.com.
Using
clues
from
photographs
and
information
that
the
girl
shared
on
her
Web
page,
the
Washington
County,
Minn.,
Internet
crime
investigator
also
quickly
found
out
where
she
worked
and
volunteered,
and
the
time
and
place
of
an
upcoming
cheerleading
competition.
Harris
was
so
disturbed
by
the
amount
of
information
that
the
girl
had
revealed
that
he
contacted
her
to
warn
her
about
the
risk
she
was
putting
herself
in.
Myspace.com
also
is
a
favorite
Web
site
of
sexual
predators,
he
said.
“Creeps”
on
the
hunt
for
young
victims
prowl
its
pages
just
like
millions
of
teenagers
do.
Despite
the
warning,
the
girls’
profile
is
still
on
myspace.com
half
a
year
later
-–
with
even
more
worrisome
photos
and
clues
posted.
Harris
spoke
to
a
group
of
about
20
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