FANTASY foiled When Mark Swaby logged on to the Internet on 20 February, 2008, and started chatting to a 14-year-old girl he thought it was his lucky day.
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EDITORIAL JANAE HOUGHTON
Lisa: hi its me Lisa 14 from broady here Mike: mike from Williamstown here Lisa: hi mike Mike: hi Lisa, school boring you ic Lisa: yeah its easy as Mike: you wanna take a day off and have some fun. his conversation sounds innocent enough. Just two people getting to know each other on MSN. However, ‘Mike’ is actually Mark Swaby, a 55-year-old man who believes he is gaining the trust of 14-year-old Melbourne school girl ‘Lisa’. ‘Lisa’ was fictional, the creation of a detective from the Internet Child Exploitation Team, sitting at a computer proactively trying to catch older men grooming young girls via the Internet.
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