Professor David Javelosa's Underage MySpace Friends

So far, we've covered Santa Monica College professor David Javelosa's questionable use of the Academy of Entertainment and Technology (AET) server and his advertisements on MySpace in both Part 1 and Part 2 of our ongoing series entitled: Santa Monica College Sex Scandals Exposed. We revealed that Professor Javelosa ran a secret website on our public vocational school's server advocating teenage sex and even had an ultra secret section for his young son. He used MySpace as a way to promote and lure visitors to javelosa.com, which was little more than a redirect to the school's server at AET. Apparently, this went on for several years. Here's a screenshot from the AET server, where Javelosa hid the webpages in a subfolder called DJ under his ET13 video game course website and where he went by the alias "David Microwave":



Now keep in mind that Professor Javelosa is a 52 year-old male displaying youthful photos of himself, dating as far back as 1983. This in itself points a serious red flag considering his underage "private" friends on MySpace that he associates with and encourages to visit his javelosa.com site that really links to these secret school webpages. Keep in mind also that Javelosa is now in charge of all the video game courses at the Academy and that kids love video games. Let's see a screenshot of Javelosa's MySpace friends:



Three of Javelosa's "friends" stand out. The first is called "Julia Lolita." Here's a screenshot:



"Lolita" refers to the famous 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov made into a 1962 movie by Stanley Kubrick. The main character, Humbert Humbert, is a pedophile who becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl named Lolita.

David Javelosa, going under the MySpace name of David Microwave, curiously has two 14 year-old friends, a male minor by the MySpace name of Cheesehead and a female minor by the MySpace name of Lexington. Both users profiles are set to "private," meaning the minor must add someone on their "friends" list to view his or her profile. Why a 14 year-old minor would add a 52 year-old man to his or her profile is quite disturbing. Because the profiles are private, they are immune from public scrutiny, which means they are unmonitored from potential abuse. Here's the respective screenshots:





Both children have recently accessed MySpace as has Professor Javelosa. David Javelosa's last MySpace login is dated June 12, 2006. Since age 14 is the minimum age to join MySpace, many minors lie about their age to gain access to this popular social networking website. Since children under 16 can set their profiles to private, unless a parent has the login to their account or is added as a friend, even the parents can't see what their child is doing and who they are communicating with.

For the last several months, MySpace has been attacked in the media, by elected officials, and law enforcement agencies, all who claim that it is far too easy for sexual predators to hook up with underage naive victims. Not only can unscrupulous adults talk dirty with children, but some even go as far as to meet their victims for illicit sex. Some of these encounters are only discovered when the parents regrettably learn that their child has been murdered.

According to an online article by The Age, dated February 20, 2006, entitled "Dark Side of the Web," "Police in Middletown, Connecticut are investigating recent reports that as many as seven local girls were sexually assaulted by men in their 20s who contacted them through MySpace pretending to be teenagers." In January 2006, "14-year-old Judy Cajuste was found strangled and naked in a Newark, New Jersey, garbage bin. Police seized a computer from her bedroom after friends said she told them of a man in his 20s she met on MySpace." These are not isolated incidents.

UGN Safenet describes MySpace as a "Parent's Nightmare" and "Predator's Dream." According to Joe Showker, who runs seminars on Child Safety and Internet Safety:

I also found that the porn business is alive and well on MySpace.com with pages setup specifically to lure underage youth to amateur and commercial pornography pages. (There is no restriction and no filters of any kind at MySpace.com.) "Some of these pages actually load a video clip for the viewer.

According to Larry Magid of CBS News:

Predators looking for teenage girls or boys have a tool that makes it very easy for them to find and groom their victims and millions of teens are playing right into their hands. In the NBC sting operation News Correspondent Chris Hansen reports: "48-year-old Allen, screename 'trying-2b-normal,' promised to teach a girl who said she was 13 different sexual positions and show her what a man really likes."

Regardless of SMC Professor David Javelosa's reasons for maintaining private underage friends on MySpace, he should take heed with the recent criticisms of MySpace to avoid this kind of negative publicity against Santa Monica College. Since he linked his MySpace profile to his secret AET webpages with Teenage Sex, G-Spot, and Collateral Damage, among many, many others, he's raised a real red flag of his motives and purpose for maintaining such, given these webpages were hidden from the SMC community for the last several years. This raises potential liability for the college as a third party that should have, but did not, monitor such activity of one of its full time professors on its school servers. Thankfully, many schools are being socially responsible and limiting their MySpace activities on their campuses.

-- Des Manttari,
Editor-in-Chief,
Phoenix Genesis

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