I've come to write this post as a way to open a discussion, you see... I really can't talk about this openly with my co-workers, so what better place than here to open the flood gates on a topic I certainly never thought about before. Sexual predation has become so common place in our society that it essentially is a punch line, an afterthought, another sad symptom of our decaying society. But when this subject rears its ugly head into the workplace, it really makes you think about it in ways that Dateline's hilarious "To Catch a Predator" series doesn't.
So if you haven't figured it out by now, basically someone I know of was recently arrested on possesion of child pornography. Pretty serious stuff, and as I write this I know the sensitivity and seriousness of the matter, so please do not mistake this for a "work gossip" type of post, in all actuality there are a few quite interesting twists to this story that merit discussion.
One fact that makes this case especially disturbing is that the accused is a teacher. It is absolutely stunning the amount of teachers that are arrested on these type of cases, especially here where I live in Florida. These people obviously seek professions with easy access to their prey, there ought to be a better process to prevent these people from getting into our schools, churches, athletics, and ...Xbox Live?
The accused, who from now on we'll refer to as FROMHELL34677 is an avid gamer and this name also happens to be his gamertag. I've done some research, aside from restricting communications and parental locking accounts, there really isn't anything stopping the thousands of FROMHELL34677s outhere from signing on to XBL and play anonimously... Should there be one?
I'm sort of conflicted, in one hand I definitely would like my online gaming to be predator free, but on the other I do not want XBL to become a gestapo state.
For now all I can do is inform you, the gaming public, and also provide you with a link to this story for dramatic effect. I would also like to encourage all of you to file an XBL complaint under Profile, there is no way to avoid the player unless you've already played with him, but we can atleast get XBL to take a look at his profile.
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