Once again we see another child predator using the Upoc service to locate, groom and eventually assault a young teen. This case in point happened in Connecticut. It's a graphic demonstration of the dangers present in the mobile web for kids.

 UPDATE: This perv was sentenced in March to 32 months in state prison, but not without deniers, enablers and excuse-makers, blame shifters... having their say.

Click >here< to read the story online and comment there, and we've also copied it below:

Man, 31, Sentenced For Sexual Assault

By ALAINE GRIFFIN

Hartford Courant

March 30, 2007

Christy Mineau's tears hushed a busy Middletown courtroom Friday, where the devoted wife implored a judge not to send her husband, Paul, to prison for too long for having sex with a 14-year-old Portland girl he met through a cellphone chat service.

'He's had to deal with repercussions, as well,' Mineau said quietly, hinting at the damage her husband's guilty plea to a sexual assault charge has caused her family. 'If he was to spend more time in jail, it would not make things better.'

But the case before Judge Frank A. Iannotti on Friday was about more than the Mineaus, who, in an unusual scene that sparked wide-eyed looks from spectators, were allowed to kiss and embrace in the courtroom during the hearing.

Iannotti reminded Paul Mineau that he climbed through the teen's bedroom window to have sex with her while her parents were home. He told Mineau the acts stole the girl's youth and innocence and left her in 'disrepair.' Mineau's acts, Iannotti said, destroyed two families.

'There's no other way to describe it,' a stern Iannotti said as he sentenced a sobbing Mineau to 32 months in prison, four months short of the sentence prosecutors requested for the 31-year-old father of two. 'It's despicable behavior.'

In a written, signed statement to police, Mineau, of Groton, said he and the girl began communicating in June 2006 over Upoc, a chat service that users can download onto their cellphones.

After text messaging for a couple of weeks, 'messages from Paul became more intimate,' the girl told police, according to the arrest warrant. 'He said he wanted to meet me in person. I was a little uncomfortable in meeting him, but he was pushy and kept asking me.'

They met at the quarries in Portland and at the movies in Middletown. They twice had late-night sex in July 2006 in the girl's bedroom, while her parents were home, according to the warrant.

Timothy O'Keefe, an attorney for the victim's family, read a letter to the judge from the girl's psychiatrists and counselors that described their patient as depressed, confused, withdrawn and sometimes suicidal since the end of her relationship with Mineau.

The girl told police she was sexually abused by a relative a few years ago, according to court records. O'Keefe said the girl was 'saddened' by the end of her relationship with Mineau.

'He made her feel loved ... but utterly confused when she found out it was not an appropriate relationship,' O'Keefe said.

Mineau apologized to the family members of the victim who were seated in the courtroom and admitted he threw 'everything away with this stupid mistake.'

James S. McKay, Mineau's public defender, argued for a two-year prison sentence for Mineau so that the family would not be separated for too long. Mineau became a father at 15. He quit school and began painting houses to support his son, a job he's kept for more than 10 years.

'We want to try and retain some bonds this man has with the outside world,' McKay told Iannotti. 'As each day goes by, these bonds are strained to the point where they could break.'

McKay said Mineau, who had no troubles with the law prior to the Portland arrest, could 'not find a more catastrophic way to destroy a law-abiding life.'

O'Keefe told Iannotti a civil lawsuit may be filed in connection to the case. Through O'Keefe, the victim's family said Mineau's sentence - eight years suspended after 32 months served and 10 years' probation - was fair. 'The victim's family is satisfied that Judge Iannotti took into account the predatory nature of the defendant's criminal actions as well as the significant impact that his actions have had, and will have, on the victim's life,' O'Keefe said.

Relatives and friends defend these pedophiles, for some strange reason. All this does is further enable the behavior and almost assure a repeat.

Here's a copy of the as-published original arrest story, also from the Hartford Courant :

Sexual Assault Charges Filed
By JOSH KOVNER
Courant Staff Writer

September 6 2006

PORTLAND -- A 30-year-old father of two has confessed to town police that he twice had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl he met through a cellphone chat service, in which users post personal profiles and communicate through text messages, court records state.

Paul Mineau, of Groton, was charged on a warrant with two counts of second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, both felonies. The girl and her parents live in Portland.

Mineau turned himself in at Portland police headquarters Tuesday morning and was arraigned later in the day in Superior Court in Middletown. He was jailed, with bail set at $25,000. He is due back in court Sept. 14.

Portland police Sgt. James Kelly obtained the arrest warrant after a two-month investigation. The parents of the girl contacted police after confronting their daughter about a high cellphone bill.

In a written, signed statement to Kelly, Mineau, the married father of a son and a daughter, said he and the girl began communicating over Upoc, a worldwide chat service that users can download onto their cellphones.

"You set up profiles, you can have pictures transmitted and send text messages. It's like a cellphone version of MySpace.com," said Lt. Ronald Milardo.

Mineau's profile said he was into "playin' guitar, music, mountain biking, and lots of healthy sex, LOL [laugh out loud]." Hers said she liked "guys, sports, having fun and singing." Each profile included a first name, home state and date of birth.

After text-messaging for a couple of weeks, "messages from Paul became more intimate," the girl told Kelly, according to the warrant. "He said he wanted to meet me in person. I was a little uncomfortable in meeting him, but he was pushy and kept asking me."

They met at the quarries in Portland and at the movies in Middletown. They twice had late-night sex in July in the girl's bedroom, while her parents were home, according to Kelly's warrant affidavit.

"We believe the parents were asleep," Milardo said.

The girl's account confirmed Mineau's version, the affidavit states. The girl told Kelly that she lives with her father and stepmother, and had moved to Portland a few years ago after being sexually assaulted by her stepfather.

In her statement to Kelly, she said: "Based on these incidents with my stepfather, I view men as a means of sex only, and need to and want to hear that I am loved and cared for by them," the warrant states.

Kelly obtained printouts of the text messages between Mineau and the girl and traced him through his cellphone number. With the assistance of Mineau's wife, Kelly found him at a job site in Ledyard, and took a statement from him at Groton police headquarters in late July.
 

And here's a link to a  WCBS radio account from the AP, also quoted below: >CLICK HERE<

 Man Arrested for Arranging Sexual Encounters with Minor

PORTLAND, CT (AP)  -- Police have arrested a 31-year-old Groton man, accusing him of setting up sexual encounters with a 14-year-old girl over the cell phone.

Paul Mineau drove to Portland twice to have sex with the girl in her bedroom while her parents were asleep in another part of the house, according to Lt. Ronald Milardo.

The arrest follows a two-month investigation that began when the girl's parents noticed ``an extremely high cellular phone bill'' and confronted the girl, Milardo said.

Investigators determined the girl had set up a profile on an online service similar to MySpace.com and was contacted by Mineau, police said.

The two continued to ``talk'' to one another via a new service called U-POC, which Milardo said allows a customer to download the service onto his or her cell phone and then text message someone using the phone.

Mineau, who was arrested Tuesday, was charged with second-degree sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury to a minor and was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bond. 

The attempt by family members of Mineau to shift blame by claiming the victim in this case "asked for it" is truly sickening. Rapists try to blame the victim as well, and we suggest these people try to get a grip.

They're actually somehow trying to justify a 30 year old man having sex with a 13 year old girl. Sheesh.

Mineau used the mobile web and the Upoc service to troll up and groom a little girl for a sexual assault encounter, and was caught. He also confessed. That means, he admits it. He did it. It was him.

Is that not enough?