VIRGINIA — Last month, police arrested 42-year-old James A. Dollins for soliciting sex and nude photos from young teenage boys on Facebook. The boys thought Dollins was a 19-year-old female.

Dollins was tricking boys with a phony profile that he created on Facebook. Using the name “Kelly Redkin,” he posted some photos of a cute girl and claimed that “she” went to the University of Virginia.

The investigation against Dollins began in May when a mother complained to police about her 13-year-old son receiving inappropriate texts from a 19-year-old college girl. Everyone knows that college girls have absolutely NO interest in 13-year-old boys — well, everyone except 13-year-old boys apparently.

In June, a search warrant was executed at Dollins’s home. Information was found connecting him to “Kelly Redkin,” so he was arrested and charged with two counts of soliciting child pornography.

Since then, investigators have found other boys that Dollins has contacted — as many as nine others. His charges were increased to ten counts of electronically soliciting minors for sex and five counts of soliciting minors for child pornography. Aside from these charges, he has no prior criminal history.

Police suspect that Dollins has been prowling for minors on Facebook since at least October 2010.

Last January, Dollins — posing as “Kelly Redkin” — invited two boys to the mall to meet “her.” The boys showed up, but Dollins didn’t. When they returned to the parking lot, there was a note on their car from Dollins apologizing for missing them. He was probably masturbating in the car next to them.

Dollins is currently being held without bond, and I’m deleting Kelly Redkin from my Facebook friends list.

Perverted men have been pretending to be girls online since 1995 when AOL introduced chat rooms, but back then, it was a big hassle to take a nude photo of yourself because cell phones didn’t have cameras. Nobody wanted to drive to Wal-Mart and have them develop dozens of embarrassing photos, then go back home and scan the best one — besides, Wal-Mart won’t even develop nude photos.

It’s much harder to spot a pedophile on Facebook because their profiles can be super convincing, especially if they have dozens of photo albums and hourly posts about fake school drama. We need to get serious and instill some fear and paranoia in our children. Show them what happens when they send nude photos to strangers — they end up getting whacked off to by creeps like James Dollins.

Tell your sons: “No respectable woman will ever ask for a photo of your penis.” Don’t even both telling your daughters not to send nudes though because they will anyway, and I’ll eventually see them.

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