James Michael Willnecker Doesn’t Learn
February 20, 2008 by impqueen
 Baltimore, MD – A fourteen-year-old girl from Michigan avoided getting raped last week. She and her online boyfriend, Jimmy Williams, had been talking on the phone very early in the morning, making plans to meet for the first time – for her “first time”. Except that Jimmy Williams wasn’t a teenaged boy. He wasn’t even Jimmy Williams. His real name is James Michael Willnecker, he’s 34, and he’s a registered child sex offender in Maryland.
The girl’s mother was smart. She noticed that her daughter had started making phone calls very early in the morning, and she wanted to know to whom. So the mom checked the girl’s phone and found out the calls were going to Baltimore, and she called the police there to find out who owned the phone number. Somebody give this mom an award.
 The Baltimore police were a little concerned that the phone number belonged to the cell phone of a sex offender, so they did some more digging. Turns out that Willnecker had started seducing the girl online on Christmas Day under the name Jimmy Williams, had given her his two phone numbers and his address, and was planning to meet with the girl to have sex. Sounds like someone wasn’t ready to have his internet privileges returned.
Willnecker was convicted in 2000 a third-degree sex offense and got the ridiculous sentence of 10 years with all but three years suspended. He was still on probation in Maryland when he was arrested February 15. Now he’s being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $75,000 bond, which seems low to me. I guess if you don’t actually have the chance to rape the kid on the second offense, it costs less to get out and try again a third time.
1:49 pm on February 20th, 2008
It always floors me that parents don’t know what their kids are doing on the computers. Smarten up, people! I’m not a perfect parent, but I made sure my teenagers added me on their friend’s list on their myspace accounts, facebook, etc. and their computer monitors are always facing their bedroom doors. I’m not stupid, and not saying I know everything they do online, but THEY think I’m computer stupid and don’t know about pulling up their history. It’s a wonderful thing to act ignorant.
2:01 pm on February 20th, 2008
Happy ending. Hallelujiah (sp?)!
2:16 pm on February 20th, 2008
Thank goodness for one mom on top of her game.
Does anyone besides me think, myspace is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas, for teens or anyone for that matter, but especially kids? All that personal info just waiting to be picked over by the pedophiles and sicko psychos.
They say you have to be 14 – did a sicko set that limit so they could get a good look at the fresh meat. I mean, maybe the admin of myspace doesn’t quite like toddlers, but now when they start developing a little “their ripe” for the picking. I just think its crazy to allow any child to put all of that stuff out there for all the sickos to select from. To me myspace is somewhere sickos can shop for children like normal people shop e-bay.
3:51 pm on February 20th, 2008
Yes, the internet and sites such as myspace are big open windows in your home that says to the entire world, “Come on in! Meet my kids!”
4:18 pm on February 20th, 2008
Thepooh, I am starting to really agree with you. When I see all these 16 or 17 year olds with all these personal pics up there, personal info, etc., it just doesnt seem safe to me. On To Catch a Predator, that is one of the tools they use. They set a My Space account of a 14 year old girl, and they were getting FLOODED with messages from grown men.
4:47 pm on February 20th, 2008
I’m not downing anyone who has a myspace page or anyone who allows their child to have one. I’m just asking – isn’t that just like your kid or yourself being on display for any sicko psycho to mull over and think, ah, this is the one?
And even to the most involved parent, the problem lies in the fact, that you can’t positively identify anyone that may be talking to your child – or even to you. I guess, there should be some way to verify who is actually on the other end – but logically, that is also an impossibility, with all the technology.
That is why I don’t have a myspace page nor does my 16 year old son. There is just no way to be sure, you are not feeding an “undesirable” your personal information. Even, if I didn’t have a child, I don’t think I would have a page – just too risky for my own safety.
Let’s say I had a page but did not allow my child one – still our location and names would be out there for the “would-be shithead” – and that could still lead back to my child, if they found my home. I just can’t take the risk. I don’t think I could live if something happened to my son – even if it were some freak of nature accident. To know that I created a way for some would-be shithead to find out where me and my son lived and for something to happen, would be more than I could bare and I surely wouldn’t survive. It would be my fault, for opening the door so to speak, or at least, that is what would be in my head and heart for the rest of my life.
5:00 pm on February 20th, 2008
My neice when she was 15 had lost her school ID. about a week later she got a message on myspace from a guy who said he had found it and to meet him to get it back. well my smart girl told her parents and my BIL got on the puter and set up the meeting with this guy who was very good at the way the teenagers talk.
well when my BIL showed up insted of a cute little blond the guy was all freaked out. my BIL made it very clear that he was to never contact his child again.
it took that to make my “smart girl” get it that people lie on the computer and when you and all of your friends put up your entire lives on the computer its not just you and your friends looking.
5:18 pm on February 20th, 2008
Thank goodness she had the good sense to tell her parents. And I’m so glad your BIL handled it the way he did instead of just not having a meeting or telling your neice to just forget it and have a new id made.
It does beg one question, do you think she really did lose her id or perhaps the POS stole it? For example, did she “lose” her whole purse or bookbag – or did someone lift it from her? That takes a pretty big set to just take a chance on setting a meeting from just finding a “random id”. Had he been watching her? Was it really an accident he “found” her id.
I’m not saying your neice did one thing wrong. I just wonder if your neice hadn’t been in his sights already and he made his opportunity by taking her id.
I’m so glad your BIL confronted the POS face to face. I understand why he couldn’t really do that much to him – what proof did he have to show this guy was going to do anything other than return her id. We all know better, but still he would have had a hell of a hard time proving this guys intent, had he kicked his sorry ass.
6:36 pm on February 20th, 2008
Thank God they got this bastarad in time, this time. But yeah what about next time? I’m a lot like this mom, call me a snoop if you want. But I do check the History after my kids have been on the computer. I know everywhere they go and everything they do. As far as their Myspace pages go. They are set to private, and anyone trying to add them must know several things to do so. You can never be to safe when it comes to your teenagers and the internet!
And my children know that the person they are talking to on the other end of the net, may not be who they say they are. I did a little test on my kids, just to see what they would do. I posed as a teenage girl chatting, and convinced one of them to meet me at the park by our house. Sat on the couch and watched my son go out the door telling me “I’m going to go ride my bike” knowing damn well where he thought he was going.
Needless to say he was surprised to meet Mom at that big tree at the park by the swimming pool. Yeah I don’t think he will do that again, just in fear that it might be me again. LOL
Hey whatever works….right?
6:44 pm on February 20th, 2008
it was just her ID in the little holder that they wear around the neck, its funny on the back of it it says if lost please drop in the mail and it has the schools address. but he chose to look her up on myspace.
the whole thing scares the shit out of me.
6:51 pm on February 20th, 2008
that’s why my kids don’t have myspaces. my elder kidlet has a Facebook, but that’s more secure AND i’m on her friends list. Child The Younger has no unsupervised internet access. I have watched more Potter Puppet Pals and Naruto Abridged than any thirtyhmph mom has a right to, but dammit, i know what he’s looking at and who he might be talking to.
And also, i know who Sasuke is and that Sakura is useless. So it’s win-win. sort of.
6:52 pm on February 20th, 2008
i should add, though, that i actually do have a myspace. because i’m a grownup and i can, that’s why. heh.
8:48 pm on February 20th, 2008
Now I remember very well that I do not have kids, so it’s easy for me to say what I would do if I did — no reality test! But if I had kids and saw one of them do that quick screen-change thing, where they hid what they are doing with a different image, they would lose their internet access forever. Once you see that, you know they are lying to you about something they know you don’t want them to do.
Imp — I LOVE the Harry Potter Puppets. But then, I truly love TeleTubbies, too.
8:55 pm on February 20th, 2008
Splash. That is tremendous. I have the UTMOST respect for you. What a lesson!
8:23 am on February 21st, 2008
we have smart limits on my daughter’s phone. see a new number… I call it and ask who they are and if I dont recognize the name, I tell them I am looking for her and ask if they know her and then start a conversation to find out how old they are… Over 16 and they are told to NOT contact her again. One was 18, now the PD in his hometown is on his butt and have called me three times to inform of actions being taken against him. He is blocked from her phone. And now since she cant seem to use common sense on her phone… It is only usable from before 10p and after 4p…
5:29 pm on February 21st, 2008
I wasn’t downing anyone or saying anyone shouldn’t. I was just stating why I didn’t have one and asking what others think about possibly “opening the door”.
Of course you can – but just know, I don’t want anything to happen to the infamous IMP, either. I was only asking, does anyone else feel like you, as an adult, could be mulled over by the undesirables and possibly some shit follow you home? That is my fear.
Hell, I don’t even list my phone number. Maybe I’m just paranoid for my own life, as well as my child’s. After all, this site proves, human lives mean nothing – not even childrens. So, I guess, I really believe that no one other than my family or friends gives 2 shits about anything that would happen to me.
When I joined here, I only put the bare minimum necessary to be a member. To be on a web site and post and to have an e-mail account, is about as daring as I can be in the cyber world. I know, I know – what a chicken shit baby I am.
I have found that shit just falls out of the sky, sometimes. Even if, you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing and being as careful as possible – there’s still some POS that can cause all kinds of havoc in your life, if they choose. I guess my thinking on this is “out of sight out of mind”. The old “one covets what one sees everyday” line stayed with me.
6:00 pm on February 21st, 2008
I have to agree- I am overly cautious when it comes to giving out any info online- or in person. And you can bet your ass my kids won’t have any access to myspace any time soon….. maybe ever!
3:03 am on February 22nd, 2008
I take a lot of heat about this…but, all of my children have a Myspace. They have for 2 years now. The difference is this…I have my computer FULL of parental monitors. Screenshots, keyloggers, you name it…I got it. I know EVERYTHING that they do on my computer. Their Myspaces don’t reveal where they live. As a matter of fact, I think my 17 year old says she lives in Zimbabwe. I have inserted a tracker onto their Myspace pages. I’d say about 95% of the visitors to their page are tracked by their IP address. Yes, that leaves 5% that don’t get tracked. But, I have also educated my children on the slimier side of humanity. We all watch ‘To Catch A Predator’ together. They have access to sites such as this one. I didn’t bring them up on fairy tales…I am bringing them up in reality. They know that not everything is as it seems. I have to give my kids tons of credit for being smart…not only book smart but street smart as well.
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