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Friday, 30 December 2016
quote [ A Seattle man has been charged with setting up a fake agency to trick women into posing nude and having sex with him. ]
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Kat said @ 5:43pm GMT on 30th December
The story was originally reported on by the Seattle-based paper, The Stranger, last June. It's a fascinating read and is all the more disturbing because the guy had done work for The Stranger in the past:
Six Women Say This Seattle Man Posed as a Female Porn Recruiter in Order to Lure Them to His Apartment
Kat said @ 5:53pm GMT on 30th December
The story was originally reported on by the Seattle-based paper, The Stranger, last June. It's a fascinating read and is all the more disturbing because the guy had done work for The Stranger in the past:
Six Women Say This Seattle Man Posed as a Female Porn Recruiter in Order to Lure Them to His Apartment
They continued to investigate, and things got worse:
Fifteen years ago, Haley Byrd considered Matt Hickey her friend. Long before Hickey, a Seattle-based tech journalist, would be accused of using an elaborate, fake "porn audition" scam to coerce multiple women into sleeping with him, she and Hickey ran in the same Olympia social circles. He and Byrd frequented the same all-ages music shows. Two of Byrd's high-school best friends eventually became Hickey's housemates. To Byrd, Hickey was friendly; he was cool. And at...
...and then there was the person whose photos he used to rope women in:
Lauren McGrath, the D.C. woman whose Facebook photos were allegedly used to lure women to a Seattle man's apartment for a sex-based porn "audition," went on her local CBS affiliate last night to talk about the story. (Video after the jump.)
I'm glad that this is getting attention, but it reminds me of the Cosby situation. It feels like the problem was going on for some time and that it took on outside force to get these women the help they deserved.
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Kat said @ 5:43pm GMT on 30th December [Score:1 Informative]
The story was originally reported on by the Seattle-based paper, The Stranger, last June. It's a fascinating read and is all the more disturbing because the guy had done work for The Stranger in the past:
Six Women Say This Seattle Man Posed as a Female Porn Recruiter in Order to Lure Them to His Apartment
They continued to investigate, and things got worse:
Fifteen years ago, Haley Byrd considered Matt Hickey her friend. Long before Hickey, a Seattle-based tech journalist, would be accused of using an elaborate, fake "porn audition" scam to coerce multiple women into sleeping with him, she and Hickey ran in the same Olympia social circles. He and Byrd frequented the same all-ages music shows. Two of Byrd's high-school best friends eventually became Hickey's housemates. To Byrd, Hickey was friendly; he was cool. And at...
...and then there was the person whose photos he used to rope women in:
Lauren McGrath, the D.C. woman whose Facebook photos were allegedly used to lure women to a Seattle man's apartment for a sex-based porn "audition," went on her local CBS affiliate last night to talk about the story. (Video after the jump.)
I'm glad that this is getting attention, but it reminds me of the Cosby situation. It feels like the problem was going on for some time and that it took on outside force to get these women the help they deserved.
