Websleuths moderator is a convicted child molester

Sasha · February 26th, 2009, 09:25 PM

I don't know where else to put this! I'm sorry, but aside from disgust I have an overwheleming sense of schadenfreude. This is the toothless old bitch who sat around smoking and eating while Leonard Padilla conducted his media circus of a search for Caylee Anthony at Blanchard Park in Orlando.~

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NoticesDear Websleuths Members, It was with great shock and dismay that we learned today that our Moderator Windchime was convicted of child sexual abuse in 1992. I want to assure you that no one on our staff knew about this until today. Windchime has been removed from Websleuths. Please understand we work strictly on a volunteer basis. We choose our moderators and administrators based on their performance on Websleuths. I will be talking with our lawyers to see about the legal aspect of requiring all Websleuths volunteers to submit to a full criminal background check to make sure this does not happen again. We do our best at Websleuths to offer you a comfortable place to post and to become involved all free of charge. We are not perfect however but we will continue to do our best. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Tricia Griffith Owner/Websleuths.com

Trixie · February 26th, 2009, 09:55 PM

Wow...I read about this elsewhere earlier but wasn't sure if it was true.

A major blow to the mighty Websleuths empire..

schadenfreude

p.s. she was actually an admin I believe....

Sylkyn · February 26th, 2009, 10:19 PM

This shit has been been bellowing at me since I got home from work. MySpace, here, and a couple of other websites I frequent. WindChime? LOL The Paragon of Perfection? Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I love it.

SVZ · February 26th, 2009, 10:31 PM

What's this all about?!!? LOL

Lobelia · February 26th, 2009, 10:41 PM

Wow... I've been a little interested in that board's drama ever since some GR posters complained about the place in our Caylee Anthony thread. I went over & checked it out, and windchime was the one who seemed practically illiterate.

McJag · February 26th, 2009, 10:56 PM

Creepy

Kittylady · February 27th, 2009, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by SVZ

What's this all about?!!? LOL

Seconded! This sounds really juicy! Give those of us not in the know a run down!

Trixie · February 27th, 2009, 08:48 AM

Well, it's a long story, LOL. Websleuths is a pretty heavily-moderated crime board and had a shakeup last year when the owner banned tons of long-standing members. They went on to start their own boards and blogs and it's pretty much been board wars since then.

Among other things, Websleuths and its owner have been criticized for their behavior during a Caylee Anthony search, in part because they hawked t-shirts for their members to wear during the search. Many of them treated the search for remains of a dead child like it was a social gathering. The admin Windchime attended the search, but spent her time sitting at a picnic table smoking, eating and taking pictures. She also harassed the Anthony family. And appeared on the local news, where she revealed her real name.

From what I gather, someone from one of the feuding blogs decided to run background checks on some people and hit the jackpot with "Windchime" who was convicted of some pretty nasty acts involving her former stepchildren.

Nice, huh?

Of course, the Websleuths owner immediately banned this woman, who's been there since 2003, but won't allow any discussion of what happened.

eta: for the gory details including copies of the court documents, go to:

BEACONHELL.com

MrsMarsters · February 27th, 2009, 04:10 PM

Oh, I was already banned from there after a day because I suggested that a discussion about Caylee is not the right place to talk about whatever stupid thing they did that day. Just seemed sort of disrespectful? Like oh got my nails down how is your DD well my DD is fine got in a fight with my DH, and so on. Seems pretty stupid.

Kittylady · February 28th, 2009, 07:00 AM

Jeebus, I just had a look through the blog and to see that members of WS are not only DEFENDING this P.O.S but to read that they were saying the kids LIED??? FFS - there was photographic evidence!

Sickening, just sickening.

Butterfly · February 28th, 2009, 08:00 AM

I tried to join but they didn't like my email address. I wasn't about to give them my main one... I'm really glad now that I didn't.

sparkly · February 28th, 2009, 11:59 PM

^Huh? Who the hell are they to say they don't like your email addy, so you're not invited to post. WOW Just thank your lucky stars. I really hate messafe boards like that. Sort of like TWOP.

L1049 · March 1st, 2009, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by sparkly

^Huh? Who the hell are they to say they don't like your email addy, so you're not invited to post. WOW Just thank your lucky stars. I really hate messafe boards like that. Sort of like TWOP.

Twinkie (aka Tricia) wants an ISP email address since they generally contain your full name. Of course there was nothing/no info on WS about needing an ISP email address until a few months ago

Lobelia · March 1st, 2009, 12:08 AM

They won't take email address from hotmail or gmail, places like that. I had use an old address that's linked to a former ISP.

This situation has gotten me interested in that board's drama, and let me just tell you people that you can burn up some hours digging into this ugly mess. There are some very, very hard feelings out there in connection to that board. One google search leads to another, and... wow.

Folieadeux · March 1st, 2009, 12:10 AM

I hated WindChime anyway. Sanctimonious asshole.