From: tymedwn1st@aol.com (TyMeDwn1st)
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Subject: NEWS UPDATE:  No Bond for Author of 'Net Rape Story
Date: 10 Feb 1995 17:46:47 -0500
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Transmitted by Reuter's 2/10/95


No Bond For Author of Internet Rape Tale   

    DETROIT (Reuter) - A U.S. judge ordered a University of Michigan
sophomore held without bond Friday for writing a fictional story about
rape and torture and sending it over the Internet. 

    Jake Baker, 20, is charged with interstate transmission of a threat, a
federal crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. 

    Baker was arrested at his laywer's office in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
Thursday by FBI agents after campus police discovered the text in an
Internet file labeled ``alternate sex stories.'' 

    During a bond hearing Friday, U.S. Magistrate Thomas Carlson called
Baker ``disturbed,'' ``dangerous'' and a ``ticking time bomb waiting to go
off.'' 

    The University of Michigan student published three stories in December
on the Internet, a worldwide computer network. In one of the stories,
Baker described breaking into a female classmate's apartment. He described
the woman as ``shaking with terror'' while men beat, torture and sexually
abuse her. 

    Federal officials said the story became a threat when he identified
the classmate by name. The woman was not identified in the complaint, but
officials said both students were in the same Japanese language class last
fall. 

    Baker also exchanged messages with a man in Ontario, Canada in which
he said: ``Just thinking about it doesn't do the trick, I need to do it,''
according to a transcript of the messages read by Carlson Friday. 

    However, Baker's lawyer David Cahill said the story was fictional and
never meant as a threat. 

    ``Jake is obviously sorry he did this,'' Cahill said. ``He had no idea
she would ever find out about this.''