Thanks to “A” from The Dead Kids of Myspace for helping get this project going –and for regularly scouting out these offending profiles. Social networking sites contain countless profiles belonging to sex offenders. Sites like MySpace and Facebook “purge” their rosters in cooperation with law enforcement. Still, many profiles slip through. Some are cleverly disguised. Some are blatant attempts by the offender to pretend nothing ever happened. Some are just abandoned –but the potential for illicit contact or grooming behavior remains until the profiles have been shut down entirely.

In 2003, Jarrod Michael Moran was convicted of two counts of sexual battery and one count of public indecency/indecent exposure in Noble County. Moran is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Marcus Reed of Baltimore, Maryland has two MySpace pages and a Facebook page.

One page is entitled “Men of Distinction.” It contains the following text:

In February of 2009, Ladaryus Montrale Bass of Jackson, Mississippi was convicted of sexual battery. Only months later, in June, Bass signed up for MySpace. He’s also on Facebook.

In 2003, Joshua Stephen Duehr sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl on multiple occasions between May and December of 2003. These crimes occurred in Dubuque County, Iowa, where he was charged with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. Duehr received a suspended 2-year prison sentence and is registered as a Tier 3 sex offender.