CREEPER ALERT! Attention Female Self Defense Instructors!

In 2008 and just this week a number of our “Female Instructors” have been receiving e-mails from a man claiming that his wife or girlfriend was involved in an incident that required her to use force against the male aggressor. He claims she then went on to stomp him in the face while he was down causing significant damage to his face (OVERKILL) or a scenario of a similar nature. The creeper then asks the female instructor if she would be willing to speak, via e-mail, with his wife or girlfriend. The girlfriend (really the creeper) then tells the story. When the female instructor mentions that she spoke with me about the situation, the creeper states “Here is my story, please don't share this with your instructor as I need the opinion of another woman”. The e-mails are violent, sexually explicit and graphic. The “wife/girlfriend” speaks using language that a man would use. After speaking with my partner, Brad Parker, we learned that the same exact e-mail had been copied and pasted to our instructor’s across the country and that we were not the only organization he was targeting.

In 2008 I wrote him and informed him, among other things, that I was in law enforcement and he disappeared. He resurfaced this week sending the same e-mail to several of our new instructors. I sent him an e-mail on Tuesday advising him that I would be more than willing to speak with him and offer my input. I requested his contact information. He has not responded. Please inform your instructors. He only targets female instructors.

He has used a Yahoo account and has used the name Jim and Steve. His female name is Becky

Six Sexual Assaults occured in Daytona Beach the first week of Spring Break!

Every year I speak to hundreds and sometimes thousands of young High School and College women but the crime of sexual assault and drug facilitated sexual assault continue to raise at an alarming rate.

There have been six reported rapes in Daytona Beach during spring break, all of which occurred in one week.

Daytona Beach police said the reported rapes happened the first week of spring break. One person has been arrested in connection with a rape, while authorities search for the other suspects.

One attack happened at a resort and spa. Another four occurred behind a popular beachfront restaurant and one on the mainland.

In the most recent attack, which occurred on Sunday, a 37-year-old woman was pulled into the men's bathroom at the Ocean Center and assaulted during an electronics trade show.

Police said reported rapes usually increase in March because of vacationers on spring break.

Last year, there were 41 sexual assaults in Daytona Beach, police said.

Hustler Magazine's VILE request!

Gary Michael Hilton, 61, pled guilty January 31 to killing Meredith Emerson, 24, after he met her hiking in the North Georgia mountains. Authorities believe Hilton killed Emerson on January 4, three days after she disappeared while on a hike with her dog.

Hilton directed authorities to Emerson's body on January 7. An autopsy found she died from blunt-force trauma to the head and was decapitated after she died. Hustler magazine has filed a Open Records Act application in an attempt to obtain the pictures for publication in their magazine.

While there are legitimate reasons for a news agency to request crime scene photos for news stories, I cannot fathom why HUSTLER would or could justify doing a story on a poor woman that was kidnapped on a hiking trail, raped, tortured and partially decapitated. Is Hustler catering to sexual deviates? I have investigated homicides where a person has been nearly decapitated and I can say first hand that these are some of the most gruesome scenes that a member of Law Enforcement will encounter. The thought that Hustler wants to print these photos in a porn magazine is deeply disturbing and it appears that the magazine is acknowledging the fact that some people may get aroused by the gruesome violence and forceable rape these photos depict.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation refused to release the photographs to Hustler even though the Open Records Act provides for their release.

At the same time, the Georgia State Legislature moved closer to enacting a law that will change the state's Open Records Act. The law would prevent anyone from obtaining gruesome crime scene photographs.

Full story here at http://www.11alive.com/

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=141649&catid=3

January is national "STALKING AWARENESS" month!

Largest-ever National Study on Stalking a Wake-up Call

A major national study on stalking, released on January 13, 2009, by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), serves as a wake-up call about a serious and often misunderstood crime, says the
National Center for Victims of Crime, the nation’s leading resource and advocacy organization for crime
victims and founder of the Stalking Resource Center. Stalking Victimization in the United States, the largest
collection of data on stalking prevalence and behavior to date, found that 3.4 million persons identified
themselves as victims of stalking in a 12-month period. This figure, which represents an increase of 2 million
victims per year over the findings of a key 1998 study,1 suggests the urgent need for a more comprehensive
response to the crime.

“This groundbreaking report shows the vast scope of stalking and the devastating impact of the crime,” said
Mary Lou Leary, executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime. “It also sheds light on some
previously unexplored aspects of stalking, such as the use of technology to stalk.” More than one in four
victims reported that stalkers had used technology, such as e-mail or instant messaging, to follow and harass
them, and one in 13 said stalkers had used electronic devices to intrude on their lives. One in seven victims
reported having moved to protect themselves. About 130,000 victims reported having been fired or asked to
leave their job because of the stalking, and about 1 in 8 lost time from work because they feared for their safety or were taking step (such as seeking a protection order) to protect themselves.

Raed the full article at http://www.ncvc.org/src/AGP.Net/Components/DocumentViewer/Download.aspxnz?DocumentID=45874

The WAR on Women!

Jane Velez-Mitchell host of CNN HLN's  "ISSUES" refers to the many horrible crime committed against women in America as the "WAR on women!" Here are some of the many cases she covered in 2009. Thanks for your work Jane!