Police hunt for 'suicide pact' children

[rainbow4321]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=610566

Police in North America were last night desperately hunting for two young children feared to be under threat after the exposure of an internet chat room set up to organise a mass suicide on Valentine's Day.

The pact, believed to involve more than two dozen people across Canada and the US, was exposed last week, after a Canadian woman told police she had seen a message in a Yahoo chat room with the words "suicide ideology" in the title.

The woman told detectives she had considered taking part, but had second thoughts when another correspondent talked about killing her two children before taking her own life.

Gerald Krein, a 26-year-old man from Klamath Falls, Oregon, was arrested on Wednesday, facing charges of solicitation to commit murder. Police are increasingly anxious to trace others connected with the pact, particularly the two children, before Valentine's Day tomorrow."Our primary goal is to try to locate where these endangered children might be," said Tim Evinger, the Klamath County Sheriff. "Hopefully we can intervene if anyone still has the notion to follow through with this"

[Warpy]

1. It doesn't sound like children

since at least one had children of her own.

But I guess it makes better press if they howl about "them pore BAY-BEES.

This guy is a sick fucker on a power trip, manipulating desperate people.

I sincerely hope everybody who was considering this finds a better way to spend Valentine's Day than by feeding this guy's massive ego by being manipulated into suicide.

[vpigrad]

2. So people don't have the right to do what they want?

I thought the party was about freedom. You sound like you're arguing against free choice.

[MisterP]

4. what, the suicide party?

[sffreeways]

5. Huh ?

:crazy:

[TheWraith]

7. One of the supposed participants talked about murdering her two kids

Before killing herself. I'd call that a reason for interest by the FBI.

[Coventina]

10. Um, nobody has the "freedom" to commit murder

Yikes! I can't even believe you posted that!

[thecai]

3. Jim Jones

Jr.:crazy:

[anarchy1999]

6. Major Distraction happening here. What is really happening?

n/t
I spend too much time designing and wearing "tin foil", for both myself and my dearest love. Happy Valentine's Day to all. Make sure everything delivered is in tin foil, screw the RFID's.

Just kidding, and sarcasm off now. Sorry.

[emad]

8. UK web address link to online suicide plot

Sunday Times
Tony Allen-Mills and Gareth Walsh



AN internet surfer accused of planning a bizarre Valentine’s Day mass suicide used a British chat room to recruit willing victims.

Gerald Krein, a jobless drifter from Oregon in America, used an online message with the heading “Suicide party you want to join it” to direct would-be suicides to a British web address. His plot was partially foiled last week when he was arrested after a tip-off from a Canadian woman who had been following his scheme on the web.

Oregon police are searching for at least 32 people across America — and possibly others in Britain — who may have been planning to kill themselves at a set time tomorrow.

In his original internet posting Krein, 26, invited members of a chat group devoted to suicide “to come to the party to die”. Signing himself Jerry, Krein said the party would be in Klamath Falls, the Oregon town where he lived with his parents in a mobile home.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1482136,00.html

[emad]

9. Previous DU on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1232336&mesg_id=1232336
Edit:
And:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3093340

[JohnOneillsMemory]

11. Isn't this what US military recruiters do in our public schools?..n/t

[tlcandie]

12. Good point that...n/t