"Jane Doe" - 13 yo - Detroit MI

A 19-year-old Detroit man is in Detroit Police custody for allegedly
having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on Facebook, police said
today.
The arrest came after the girl's mother opened her daughter’s
bedroom closet late Sunday night and found a surprised set of eyes
staring back: a 19-year-old man whom she had discouraged her daughter
from seeing.
“I said, ‘Who are you?!’ and he looked at her,”
the 32-year-old mother said today of her daughter, who was sitting on a
bed across the room.

Nineteen-year-old Donald Hunter was
being held at Wayne County Jail as prosecutors approved a warrant
charging him with two felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual
conduct, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, Detroit Police
spokesman John Roach said tonight.
Maria Miller, a
spokeswoman for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, said she could
not identify the suspect because she did not know if the warrant had
been signed by a magistrate. If so, the suspect could be arraigned as
early as today.
The girl told investigators they had sex in
the bedroom of her east side home, where she hid him Saturday night and
Sunday until her mother found Hunter and detained him until police
arrived.
The girl’s mother heatedly explained today that she
tried to stop the relationship after the pair met online last year and
she thought the boy was just 15. She canceled her daughter’s Internet
service, shut off the girl’s cell phone and pulled her out of one
school for another.
As her mother spoke, the girl softly called the man her first boyfriend.
“(I hope) I get blamed for it and he don’t go to jail,” the quiet teen said.
She said she believes her mother’s vow to send her to a convent. “I understand. She’s right.”
The
case has those who deal with troubled teens again waving warning flags
about children using the Internet and Web sites like Facebook and
MySpace.
“This case illustrates that we must be diligent
about monitoring what our children are doing on the Web,” Prosecutor
Kym Worthy said.
Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans said in a
statement that “an iron-clad condition” of a child being allowed to use
the Internet should be for the parent to know the passwords to their
child’s e-mail and social networking accounts.
Birmingham
psychologist Aldona M. Valivonis, who specializes in treating
adolescents, said Facebook gives users the ability to create the person
they want to be – accurate or not.
“That’s just the dangers
of the Internet,” Valivonis said. “I think Facebook really opens people
up to danger. You don’t know who’s e-mailing you or writing on your
wall. They just say ‘I want to be your friend.’ "
The social networking site can also create an illusion of friendship for teens – and adults – seeking companionship, she added.
“Facebook
itself is a way to feel you have a lot of friends, but they’re not
necessarily all your friends.” she said. “You meet friends through
work, or school or family. And it takes a long time to makes friends.