A website catering to prisoners seeking pen pals has pulled the ad posted by a man convicted of killing a 13-year-old girl he had met online last year for sex.
 Christina Long strangled by man she met online (CBS) |
Inmate.com yanked the personal for Saul Dos Reis, a 25-year-old Brazilian citizen convicted in the strangling death of 6th-grader Christina Long of Danbury, Conn.
The action comes just days after a report in the Greenwich Time exposed the ad from the “very outgoing heterosexual male.”
“I am very good at telling stories which can and will have you shiver,” Dos Reis wrote in his e-personal. “I have many qualities which make me unique. I’m romantic, always funny, I always have a positive attitude and have many hidden things as well.”
“I enjoy writing and being silly and funny,” he added. “I also always carry on interesting things to talk about. I’m not just another boring pen pal. …”
In describing his ideal female, he sought:
“A woman with a good heart that loves to write and that is not afraid of being herself. … I also look for a person who knows what she wants out of life.”
The advertisement shocked members of Long’s family.
“I can’t believe he has a website,” Shelly Riling, Christina’s aunt and guardian, told the Time upon learning of the ad. “It shows that he has a disease and is incurable. He hasn’t learned anything.”
“Having this website, he can have young girls write to him and screw them up psychologically,” Riling said. “How will they prevent young girls from writing to him?”
Prisoners at Donald W. Wyatt Correctional Center in Rhode Island don’t have access to Internet or e-mail, but inmate.com routinely sends correspondence to prisoners via regular mail.
That won’t happen now that the ad has been pulled, and prison officials were made aware of the page’s existence.
 Saul Dos Reis sought online pen pal after killing teen he met on Net (CBS) |
Dos Reis was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree sexual assault. His ad only mentioned a second-degree assault and indicated he was still awaiting sentencing, when in fact he had already been sentenced to 30 years for the manslaughter. He still faces sentencing July 29 for traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor.
“Anyone trying to deceive the public will be removed from our website,” says the inmate pen pal service, according to the Time. Terms of service for the site reveal that the page can cancel an account with or without a stated reason.
Last fall, long before news of the online personal ad, CBS News featured the case of Dos Reis in a national segment about Internet crime on “60 Minutes II.”
The program related how Christina had been living a secret sex life apart from her life as an honor student and altar girl at St. Peter’s Catholic School in Danbury.
During the broadcast, Dos Reis denied being a sexual predator.
“That’s how people portray me in the media, but that’s not who I am,” he told CBS.
He says the teen contacted him first with an instant message on America Online, and the two ended up having sexual relations that turned fatal.
Prosecutors gaining access to computer correspondence said Dos Reis lured Christina by telling her she was “attractive and sexy” as well as promising to give her a present.
After their first sexual encounter, Dos Reis reportedly asked for suggestive photos of Christina to thrill his friends.
“We definitely got to show them something wild right,” one of his e-mails stated.
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