Alok Kumar

We now know the identity of the Johnson Controls executive who did a bad, bad thing. It's Alok Kumar.



Here's the criminal complaint.

Add it to the pile of creepy reports detailing creepy online dialogue between creeps and police officers posing as children.

The Gary Becker online chats were horrible.

The Alok Kumar (AKA "akbi40s") complaint is a new seedy chapter in the book of criminal Internet behavior.

Kumar was arrested when he showed up to meet the 14-year-old boy/ police detective he had been chatting with online.

According to the complaint:

Milwaukee Police Detective Sean Lips reported that starting on February 8, 2009 through March 21, 2009, from his location at the Milwaukee Police Department, 749 West State Street, City and County of Milwaukee, he has gone online on a computer using the internet, in an undercover capacity, representing that he is a 14 year old boy in 8th grade (hereinafter referred to as Detective Lips or “boy.” During the time period, he had internet conversations with a person who later admitted that he was the defendant, the defendant using the screen name "akbi40s.” Detective Lips stated that he had several online conversations with the defendant during the course of which the defendant stated that he wanted to meet up with the person who was representing himself to be a 14-year-old boy. In addition, the defendant talked about getting pizza and wine coolers for them and stated that he had the game Wii at his apartment that they could use. The defendant in these online conversations, as well as in phone conversations, stated that he would engage in sexual activity with the boy. In addition, the boy said he was interested in skateboarding and the defendant stated that he bought a skateboarding book online to give to him.

...Detective Lips reported that at approximately 2:25 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2009, the defendant drove his car into the parking lot of the agreed-upon CVS; he walked into the store and by the magazine section in the back; he also purchased wine coolers.

The defendant was then arrested outside CVS and he acknowledged that he had the screen name “akbi40s” and that he’d been conversing online with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy whom he had agreed to meet at the above CVS at the above time. He admitted that he was going to take the boy to his apartment and have sexual contact with him. He stated that they were going to play naked Wii, relax, drink wine coolers and that the most they would do is mutual masturbation. The defendant stated that he recently discovered that he is bisexual and that’s why he pursued this.

So Kumar did this because he recently discovered that he's bisexual. Is his sexual attraction to kids also a recent discovery?

This makes my skin crawl.
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Here's more, from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The Journal Sentinel has very little on this story. Plus, it took quite a while before Kumar's name showed up on the JS website.

I think that's a little weird. Have we become so desensitized to this sort of story that it doesn't warrant much attention in the media?

Maybe if the perpetrator were a priest instead of a Johnson Controls exec the Journal Sentinel would consider it big news.