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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:07 PM
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Sex predators need to call this number:

1-800-Sex-Line
"Sex Predator Hotline Goes To Sex Line"


MINEOLA, N.Y., Apr. 18, 2007
(AP) Talk about your wrong number. An effort to provide constituents with a hotline number that helps track the location of sexual predators backfired for a group of Long Island politicians when they mistakenly listed a telephone number that connects callers to a sex chat line.

"Hey there, sexy guy," a sultry recorded female voice is heard telling callers to the wrong number. "Welcome to an exciting new way to go live, one on one, with hot horny girls waiting right now to talk to you."

That's not what Nassau County Legislator Peter J. Schmitt and seven colleagues intended when they sent out postcards to constituents announcing an initiative with the Long Island-based Parents for Megan's Law, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of sex abuse.


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