Press Release

Yahoo! Porn Clubs Involved In 2nd Teen Kidnap And Torture

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Contact: Patrick Trueman
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, Mississippi 38803
Phone 662/844-5036
Fax 662/842-7798
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For immediate release: January 7, 2002

TUPELO, MS - News reports indicate that once again, a Yahoo! pornography club has been implicated in a teen kidnap/torture incident. The latest incident involves a 13-year-old girl from Pennsylvania who was lured, via a Yahoo! pornography club, to the Herndon, Virginia home of a 38-year-old man, Scott Tyree, who billed himself on Yahoo! pornography clubs as a “slave master for teen girls.” “This man is every parent’s greatest fear and Yahoo! provided him all the tools he needed to find child victims,” said Trueman, AFA director of governmental affairs. “Yahoo! is not a safe place for families.”

The company refuses to eliminate its pornography clubs from its site and has even defended them. Over the past ten months, AFA has repeatedly urged the company to eliminate Yahoo! pornography clubs noting that many are directed to those interested in child pornography, rape, and torture. According to news reports, one of the pornography clubs Tryee frequented is the Yahoo! “Young Virgin Slave Market.” Photos posted on this club show women naked, bound and tortured outdoors in the snow. On this club today a man is offering his 13-year-old stepdaughter for sex. He provides a description of the girl, the kind of sex she will perform, indicates that he will deliver her to a home or hotel, and urges those interested to e-mail him at his Yahoo! e-mail address to discuss price. “This is the kind of facilitation Yahoo! offers to child molesters,” Trueman said. “The American public needs to wake up and boycott Yahoo! This latest kidnap is the wakeup call!”

In August of this year, following the kidnap and rape of a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl by a man who subsequently advertised the girl for rent on a Yahoo! club, AFA made a special plea to Yahoo! asking that it close all its kidnap, rape, torture and pornography clubs. AFA also said that the Justice Department should prosecute Yahoo! if it refuses. Neither Yahoo! nor the Justice Department has responded. AFA’ renews its call to both Yahoo! and the Justice Department. AFA also urges that in addition to boycotting Yahoo! people should join AFA’s petition drive demanding that Yahoo! eliminate all pornography clubs. The petition is at AFA's Website.

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