Statistik
Jun 10 2006, 10:08 PM
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DETROIT - A 16-year-old honor student from Michigan tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew off to the Mideast to be with a West Bank man she met on MySpace.com, authorities say.
U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded her to turn around and go home before she reached the West Bank. She returned home Friday.
Katherine R. Lester is a straight-A student and student council member, her father
said. “She’s a good girl. Never had a problem with her,” Terry Lester said.
Claimed to be going to Canada
Katherine disappeared Monday after talking her family into getting her a passport by saying she was going to Canada with friends, sheriff’s officials said. She apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, Undersheriff James Jashinske said.
The FBI traced the teenager to a Wednesday flight from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel. At a scheduled stop in Amman, Jordan, U.S. officials persuaded her to return home, FBI agent Robert Beeckman said.
Television news footage showed Katherine waving as she walked across a tarmac at Bishop International Airport in Flint late Friday. She was taken to a private area to be reunited with her family.
Katherine apparently contacted the man from Jericho about three months ago, Jashinske said. Jericho, a city of 17,000, is a relatively calm area of the volatile West Bank.
MySpace forbids youngsters 13 and under from joining and provides special protections for those 14 and 15 — only people on their list of friends can view their profiles. Older users also have the option of restricting certain personal data so it can be seen only by people they have identified as friends.
Unclear if any law violated
Shawn Lester told The Saginaw News that her daughter has “never given me a day’s trouble. ... I just don’t understand with all these new laws protecting America how a 16-year-old kid could get out of the country.” She said her daughter never had a boyfriend and seemed to be content with that.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said he could say little about the girl because of privacy rules.
Katherine and her mother live in Gilford, a village about 80 miles north of Detroit in Michigan’s agricultural Thumb region. Her father lives in Grand Blanc Township.
The age of consent in Michigan is 16; Katherine turns 17 on June 21.
“I’ll be honest with you, we don’t know if a crime’s been committed,” Jashinske said Friday.
magicfann
Jun 10 2006, 10:12 PM
god that girl is such a noob
AngelicEyz00
Jun 10 2006, 10:22 PM
What a stupid ass girl.
Skyline Drive
Jun 10 2006, 10:41 PM
Psshh. Honor student... not according to her actions
EddieV
Jun 10 2006, 11:22 PM
Sometimes the smartest people are soo stupid. and the stupidest people are soo smart....
JlIaTMK
Jun 10 2006, 11:36 PM
Entertaining to say the least.
Surprised I haven't heard anything of it around here...
Maybe I will soon.
tootsie_kiddo
Jun 11 2006, 10:14 AM
Wow, are you serious? That's an unbelievable story...
Smoogrish
Jun 11 2006, 10:22 AM
That's pretty stupid. Flying to the Mideast alone to meet this guy from Myspace?!
Jeez.
My Cinderella.
Jun 11 2006, 10:26 AM
That's a pretty stupid move.
sw33t_rouge
Jun 11 2006, 10:30 AM
stupid girly she coudve been raped.
radhikaeatsraman
Jun 11 2006, 12:16 PM
Forget being a rapist, this dude could've been a suicide bomber.
SarahxJoy
Jun 11 2006, 12:17 PM
..wow, the world never ceases to amazes me in showcasing its stupidity.
Interesting.
marzipan
Jun 11 2006, 12:34 PM
what a retard.
Programmer
Jun 11 2006, 12:40 PM
what an idiot...
melface
Jun 11 2006, 12:42 PM
if she's that stupid to do that shit... she deserves to be killed...
but that's just my opinion.
stephinika
Jun 11 2006, 01:05 PM
Thats just ridiculous...its people like her that make parents freak out about myspace and all those sites...
demolished
Jun 11 2006, 01:52 PM
i'm going to laugh.
mona lisa
Jun 11 2006, 03:12 PM
Hahaha; how dumb. I wouldn't have expected a straight-A student to be that irrational.
NoSex
Jun 11 2006, 06:17 PM
QUOTE(mona lisa @ Jun 11 2006, 3:12 PM)
Hahaha; how dumb. I wouldn't have expected a straight-A student to be that irrational.
You must not know many straight-A students.
xmkaex
Jun 11 2006, 06:29 PM
she musta been very desperate.
technicolour
Jun 11 2006, 06:31 PM
Some straight A honor student.
yoursweetsmile
Jun 11 2006, 06:36 PM
omg guys can i come visit you? where do you live? i already have a passport! i just have to tell my parents i'm going on a trip with my friends.
omgomgomgomgomg im sooo excited. whats ur myspace?!
JUST KIDDING! ;p
sadolakced acid
Jun 11 2006, 06:48 PM
i wonder what country he said he was the prince of...
because damn, if the princess of some european country told me on myspace to come visit her, i'm there in a heartbeat.
agiri
Jun 11 2006, 06:49 PM
wow. what a f.cking idiot ...
Mike
Jun 11 2006, 07:01 PM
That girl should be married with Bush. She's stupid.
mona lisa
Jun 11 2006, 09:08 PM
QUOTE(Acid Bath Slayer @ Jun 11 2006, 7:17 PM)
You must not know many straight-A students.
I do but trust me, in my school, it's very difficult.
Ruler Face
Jun 11 2006, 09:21 PM
What idiot.. besides this girl
would go off with a man
she met on the internet?!?
O________O
What is this world coming to?
Smoogrish
Jun 11 2006, 09:25 PM
^ Idiocy.
sprezzatura
Jun 11 2006, 09:25 PM
What the...
I doubt her honors status...could this act drop her out of honors?
sadolakced acid
Jun 11 2006, 11:09 PM
hey i have an idea!
let's all make fun of this girl and call her a stupid idiot so we can feel better about our own pathetic lives!
how many of you would have the guts to do something like that?
plus, i doubt that's the whole story.
but you know, it does make me feel better.
we need more of these things. my life is too pathetic. give me more relief.
jooleeah
Jun 12 2006, 12:04 AM
Haha, well, at least this time they didn't blame myspace for what happened.
MrElsewhere
Jun 12 2006, 12:05 AM
before myspace, they freaked out about chat rooms, now they have a specific target, instead of a general one.
Ajmalhuuss
Jun 12 2006, 07:35 AM
QUOTE(Mikestah @ Jun 11 2006, 8:01 PM)
That girl should be married with Bush. She's stupid.
Haha Agreed.
Retardo! I just don't get it.
StanleyThePanda
Jun 12 2006, 10:39 AM
wow... thats so stupid.
mipadi
Jun 19 2006, 10:47 AM
Newsvine has an
interesting article that humanizes the Palestinian man involved in this case.
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The Palestinian man who befriended a 16-year-old Michigan girl through the MySpace.com Web site and invited her to join him in Jericho said he is heartbroken by U.S. authorities' decision to send her back home.
Abdullah Jimzawi, 20, told The Associated Press that his love for Katherine Lester, of Gilford, Mich., was pure and they planned to marry. The music buff, who spends at least 10 hours a day on the Internet, decried attempts to portray him as an Internet predator.
"We love the same things, the same songs and we have similar dreams. I fell in love with her because she is innocent and goodhearted. We found ourselves as soul mates," he told the AP on Sunday at his family's comfortable house.
Read more…Clearly it brings up issues as to whether you can love someone—enough to marry her—that you don't know in real life, but at any rate, the article does put another slant on the story.
AngelicEyz00
Jun 19 2006, 12:35 PM
^ Aw, that one's kinda sad.
yourresidentpsychopath
Jun 19 2006, 02:12 PM
See? Its people like her that ruin a good thing like Myspace for people like us. Gah.
Crich323
Jun 19 2006, 03:32 PM
You would think if she wanted to meet somebody she would at least stay in the country!
And the thing about "protecting" 14 and 15 year olds is that they can lie about their age. duh
and never underestimate the straight A students!
n00b
Jun 19 2006, 03:39 PM
I saw that in the paper
agiri
Jun 19 2006, 04:03 PM
QUOTE(mipadi @ Jun 19 2006, 8:47 AM)
Newsvine has an
interesting article that humanizes the Palestinian man involved in this case.
Clearly it brings up issues as to whether you can love someone—enough to marry her—that you don't know in real life, but at any rate, the article does put another slant on the story.
i still think its a crock of shiet. -_-'' i hope this girl got the ass whoopin of her life.
Did anyone see that one news story where some dumbshit kid traveled to Iraq because he apparently had a project on the war on Iraq and wanted to gauge the situation in IRL. F.cking dumbass. He used his college money to pay for the ticket and got his ass dragged back by the US embassy. DUMBASS. I think those two should get married.
Retrogressive
Jun 19 2006, 04:06 PM
she fails.
Mr. Slowjamz
Jun 19 2006, 04:10 PM
i dont care ...i have a damn splinter from swimming today and i need to get it out
.....
QUOTE(mipadi @ Jun 19 2006, 11:47 AM)
Newsvine has an
interesting article that humanizes the Palestinian man involved in this case.
Clearly it brings up issues as to whether you can love someone—enough to marry her—that you don't know in real life, but at any rate, the article does put another slant on the story.
and she just had to wait 2 more years till shes full grown and do w/e she wants .
synkro
Jun 19 2006, 05:32 PM
i blame the parents.
how did they not expect their kid to pull off something like that? there must've been some underlying problem for her to even think about doing that. she could've been one of those "straight a students" who was tired of living up to her parents' high expectations.
Looow
Jun 19 2006, 05:39 PM
ahaha. wow .. she's a fcuking idiot.
ArjunaCapulong
Jun 19 2006, 05:48 PM
MySpacers these days...
sadolakced acid
Jun 19 2006, 08:49 PM
well, most of us are certainly doing a good job at making ourselves feel bettter.
but not all. shame shame.
doork
Jun 19 2006, 09:16 PM
stupid girl.
sadolakced acid
Jun 20 2006, 01:34 AM
delicious!
Janette
Jun 20 2006, 01:36 AM
i hate how myspace is everywhere nowadays. also how when it`s in the news its always something BAD.
ECD & C0
Jun 25 2006, 12:01 PM
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Psshh. Honor student... not according to her actions
haha thats just what i was thinking
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