Mt. Lebanon man caught in Internet
sex sting sentenced
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By The Tribune-Review
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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Lebanon Juvenile Charged for Sex Act
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posted 3:14 pm Fri June 20, 2008 - Lebanon, Pa.
reporter: Amy Kehm posted by: Bryan Peach
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Poll: Sex in Games Is Worse Than
Violence
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April 10, 2008 | 12:58:17 PMCategories: Culture
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A Mt. Lebanon man was sentenced
Tuesday to 1 1/2 to 3 years in prison for
sexually propositioning a police officer from
Fayette County who was posing as a
teenage girl on the Internet.
Yunkal Xia, 41, was sentenced by Common
Pleas Judge Conrad B. Capuzzi after
pleading guilty to charges of attempted
aggravated indecent assault, attempted
unlawful contact with a minor and attempted
corruption of minors. As part of the plea
bargain, prosecutors withdrew a number of
related charges.
South Connellsville police said Xia made
Internet contact with the officer posing as a
13-year-old girl. Police said Xia engaged in
sexually explicit conversation and indicated
he wanted to have sex and take
pornographic photos. He was arrested after
arranging a meeting at a restaurant in
September.
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Lebanon County authorities are
investigating a sex act case involving two
juveniles - one of whom faces criminal
charges.
The case involves a 13-year-old and
12-year-old. Both are young, but
investigators said that even if the act
seemed consensual, a 12-year-old cannot
legally consent regardless of the other
child's age.
On Wednesday, Lebanon County
detectives arrested the 13-year-old boy for
the March incident. They said that he
engaged in a sex act with the 12-year-old
girl at a Weidman Street playground.
The boy has been charged with involuntary
deviate sexual intercourse with a child,
indecent assault and sexual abuse.
According to investigators, other juveniles
watched the sex act. An 18-year-old male
recorded the act on a cell phone and
showed the video to others.
The Lebanon County District Attorney's
Office explained that, even though the
children were just one year apart in age,
the act is a crime.
"Any child who is 12 years of age or
younger is incapable of consenting under
Pennsylvania law," said Deputy District
Attorney Megan Ryland Tanner. "So it's not
one of those situations where you can say it
was consensual, because the victim in this
case was 12 years old."
The adult who is accused of recording the
incident has not been charged. The district
attorney's office said it is still investigating.
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This week's poll at What They Play shows
that although violence in games is what
tends to get all the negative attention, some
people, at least, find games' sexual content
to be far more offensive.
According to the poll, images of sex -- be
they of a heterosexual couple getting it on,
or of two men kissing -- are more offensive
than images of a severed human head.
Bad language seems to be no big deal at
all, lagging far behind at a tiny 10 percent.
This is, of course, an unscientific sampling
of a few hundred respondents, who may or
may not be answering truthfully. That said,
it's an interesting snapshot of our cultural
taboos.
This poll reminds me of an encounter I had
in a game store once. A woman was trying
to buy her 12-year old daughter some
games for Christmas, and overhearing me
talking about games, asked me for advice.
She picked up one of the Resident Evils
and asked me if it was any good. I told her
that it was an excellent game, but quite
violent and scary. "Oh, that's no problem,"
she replied. "But there's no, you know,
people having relations in it, is there?"
Image courtesy What They Play
Attitudes to sex and violence [John Davison]
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