Another Teen Steps Forward - Foley Sent 17 Year Old Illicit IM's

[ruggerson]

Just to set the record straight - Matt Drudge is lying and trying to confuse people into thinking there was only one page and he was 18. There are at least 4 or 5 separate cases of emails and IM's and, more than likely, more to come. They were all with children under 18, and one young man turned 18 DURING the relationship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061005/ap_on_go_co/foley_georgia

ATLANTA - An Atlanta man told a local television station and newspaper that former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) sent him sexually suggestive messages after he served as a congressional page 10 years ago.

Tyson Vivyan, 26, of Buckhead told WAGA-TV in a Wednesday interview that Foley began sending him instant messages about a month or two after his nine-month stint as a page ended in June 1997

Vivyan told the station that when he was a congressional page in 1996 and 1997 he barely spoke to Foley. But after he left the program — when he was 17 years old — Vivian says they had contact via e-mail about things he says where inappropriate.

"He somehow got ahold of my online identity on AOL and began sending me sexually illicit ims," Vivyan said in the TV interview

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[kurth]

1. "He somehow got ahold of my online identity"

There can be no doubt Foley is a predator and a stalker.

[xultar]

2. Drudge? He still has a site?

[napi21]

3. Oh, I bet there's going to be a lot of them before this is over!

We appear to be talking abouta 10 year time span, and this email trick of Foley's is just the kind of thing that falls into the "If it works once, it will work again" catagory!

Usually, as time goes on, the incidents occur more often. If this wasn't like that, I then will be shocked!!!

[shadow 99]

4. Why didn't he put him on his ignore list? NT

[Spazito]

5. Hmmm, that almost sounds like "blame the victim" which I am

sure you don't mean to infer, right? A better question might be how did foley get the victim's user name, etc?