Up to 1000 children using Facebook and Bebo may be unknown victims of the advances of a sexual predator in the south west of the United Kingdom, according to police reports.
Michael Williams, a 28-year-old postal worker, used his routes as a postman to meet children and engage in innocent conversation, whereby he would learn their names. Later at home, he would search them out online using one of several fake identities.
His two most popular aliases were that of a teenage girl, Gorgeous Charlie, and a teenage boy called James. Using these fake identities he would befriend youngsters online and either attempt to induce them to perform sexual acts in front of a webcam or arrange to meet with them.