Info:: I'm a 37 year old woman who lives in a suburb of San Diego, CA. In August of 1997, I "cyber-met" a man on the Internet in a singles chat room on the Internet. We discovered that we only lived a few miles away from each other and we started emailing each other. We found that we had many things in common with each other and decided to meet in person after two months of emails back and forth. At first we just had a mini-meeting where I met him at his office for a five minute chat.
I discovered that Steve was a very successful business owner who had a myriad of interests very close to my own. He was handsome and had a wonderful personality.
We had dinner at a really wonderful restaurant the very next evening. I "fell in love". He was everything I ever wanted in a man. Within one month, at his insistence, I moved in with him.
Steve gave me everything I ever wanted. A large beautiful home with a pool, Jacuzzi, large backyard with several barbecues for parties and 1/2 an acre of fertile land where I could grow my own herbs, fruits and vegetables for cooking. The kitchen was a cook's dream and I even had my own housekeeper!
The first few months were wonderful. Steve really had a knack for living right. He had two freezers in his garage full of meat and fish for wonderful meals, an incredible wine collection and even satellite TV. I was in heaven.
Since I was not responsible for any of the living expenses, I worked only part time and threw myself into my hobbies full-time. I honed my cooking skills and created web pages for friends on the Internet. One day while working on the Internet, I entered Steve's email address into a search engine just for a laugh. However, I wasn't laughing when I read the results of the search.
Steve had been posting to some very strange newsgroups on the Usenet. I became physically sick upon reading some of the things Steve wrote.
Steve posted to alt.sex.fat in an attempt to get the women to post nude pictures of themselves on the Internet. He posted to alt.sex.menstruation with the same intent. The scariest postings of all, at this point, were the ones he wrote to alt.sex.gloryholes. Apparently Steve was searching San Diego North County for convenient locations of gloryholes. I had to research the concept of gloryholes since I was unsure as to what they really were. I was amazed to find out that men actually drill holes in the walls between the stalls in public restrooms in order to stick themselves thru and obtain oral sex from strangers on the other side of the wall. Sick stuff!
After a few days of stewing over this, I finally broached the subject with Steve. He was shocked that his emails were publicly available but he told me he was just messing around and he wouldn't do it any more. I gave it a week and then showed up at his office unexpectedly. He kept his computer at his office and that was where his Internet usage took place. I asked him if I could copy a few files onto the Zip Disk I had brought with me as my computer crashed and several necessary files became corrupted. He agreed and I proceeded to copy his entire Netscape folder onto the zip disk.
Upon returning home, I opened up his Netscape browser and found massive amounts of child pornography, posts to pedophile Usenet groups and multiple email missives to several online pedophiles who were self-professed card-carrying members of NAMBLA! I threw up instantly in the office trash can. Then I found the keys to Steve's truck and went out in search of boxes. By the time Steve returned home that evening I had packed up half of my belongings and told him that I would be out of the house very soon. It took over 2 weeks to find an apartment and that was the longest 2 weeks of my life!!!
After relocating I contacted the local authorities but they determined that Steve was small potatoes and they wouldn't take any action. Since Steve had a 15 year old daughter from a previous marriage and his daughter had full unsupervised access to his computer which housed all of this filth, I decided to take this information to his first ex-wife. Upon going thru all of the documentation I gave her to support my story, she contacted a lawyer and had his unsupervised visitation rights withdrawn immediately.
I also contacted his second ex-wife with whom Steve was still going thru the divorce action. I had dinner with her and her new boyfriend. I gave her a copy of all of the documentation and asked her if she had any knowledge of Steve's proclivity towards men and young boys. She was shocked and stated that the main reason she left Steve was because she knew he was cheating on her. She just didn't know that Steve was cheating on her with other men and young boys!!!
All in all, this was the most traumatic experience of my life!
Name: Kathy