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In another example of no parental observation of their children on the internet, I found this story in our local 12th Street Rag*.

Text message saves 17-year-old

Teen held against will after meeting man via Internet Associated Press

HOGANSVILLE, Ga.A man was arrested after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met on MySpace.com sent a text message to his family claiming he was being held against his will on the man’s west Georgia sheep farm, police said.

Ted Roy Williams, 58, was arrested Thursday and being held on charges of aggravated sodomy and false imprisonment, Troup County Sheriff’s Lt. Rick Massie said. A judge set his bond Friday at $1 million.

Williams met the boy on the online networking site two weeks ago and after the two conversed on the site Williams eventually convinced the teen to visit him in Georgia, Massie said. He bought a plane ticket for the boy and picked him up at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Thursday morning, and then took the teen to his rural home and immediately began sexually abusing him, Massie said.

“The mood changed and the kid said he was sodomized and made to stay at the home,” Massie said.

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Williams lives in a secluded area in Hogansville, a town of about 2,800 about 55 miles southwest of Atlanta. His farm sits at the end of a dirt road, where a sign advertises that it sells brown eggs and vegetables. About a dozen sheep grazed in a pen in front of the tidy, two-story home, and an American flag was waving near the front door. The mailbox advertised “fresh eggs” and a rusted pontoon boat was docked near the front lawn.

On the Internet, Williams was listed as a member and director of a state sheep breeder’s association.

*No link directly to the story - the Ledger buries stories after 7 days and then you have to pay for it.