Mark Bedford
Don’t let the Justin Bieber haircut fool you, Mark Bedford is not the sort of person you want around your neighborhood. He’s not the sort of person you want in your town, state/province or country, and you definitely do not want to let this thing near a camera, a dog, children or a computer.
An Internet sex predator who is considered one of the most prolific ever caught in Canada was released from prison in March, 2011. Mark Bedford, 25, is a pedophile who not only refuses to voluntarily change his ways but seems to be unable to comprehend the error of his ways. He is an unrepentant, remorseless, unsalvageable pervert who served his entire prison sentence before he was released. No early release for Marky boy, and for good reason.
“With what he’s done in the past, there’s a high probability that he might reoffend,” Det. Staff Sgt. Frank Goldschmidt said of Mark Bedford.
And what had he done in the past? Let’s start with those crimes he pled guilty to: inciting a child to commit bestiality with a dog, extortion, possessing and distributing child porn, and luring over the Internet. His victims: girls aged 9 to 15 from 5 different countries. For a grand total of 10 charges Mark Bedford spent a total of 3 years in prison. Not nearly enough IMHO.
Although Mark Bedford pled guilty to a paltry 10 crimes in a plea bargain, it is likely he is guilty of hundreds more, all via the Internet.
Mark Bedford is a cunning, computer savvy pedophile. On social networks like Facebook he would hack into the friends lists of his prey: young girls. How did he do that? Mark Bedford took on the persona of Samantha, a 15-year-old girl who listed her interests as singing, dancing, my b/f and girly stuff like that. As Samantha he would chat with young girls and ask seemingly harmless questions like what was their favourite colour, what bands did they like, what pets do they have.
By eliciting answers to these questions, Mark Bedford was gathering clues to the girls’ passwords. He would then hijack the accounts, change the passwords and pose as the victims to their circle of friends. Once he gained the trust of these friends, he would begin conversing with them in an increasingly sexual manner. Ultimately he would convince the friends to expose their breasts using a webcam. Since the girls thought they were dealing with a known friend they felt safe enough to lift their shirts. They were far from safe.
Once Mark Bedford got the girls to expose themselves he had blackmail material which he then used to force the girls into performing more and more explicit sexual acts. He would keep taking more photos and gather even more blackmail material. The girls were terrified of what he would do with the photos — send them to all their friends, to their parents, or to other pedophiles. They were also terrified of his threats to kill them or their family members. It was an absolute nightmare for these young girls.
And so Mark Bedford managed to force a 12-year-old girl into simulated sex acts with her dog. He forced sisters aged 11 and 13 to perform oral sex on each other. He forced other girls to insert items such as combs and pencils into their vaginas. And Mark of course was recording it all via webcam. And jerking off to it too, as pedophiles are wont to do.
Mark Bedford victimized more than 40 girls in England alone. He also had victims in Canada, the U.S.A., Mexico and France. The true number of girls he traumatized may never be known. It is at least 63. And he did it all from his parents’ home in Kingston, Ontario. If only they’d known what Marky boy was up to on his computer. They might have wondered since he spent 7 to 9 hours a day on it.
Mark Bedford at 16 had begun looking at photographs of young girls on the Internet. He got photos from older online pornographers. At 19 he began his criminal career of forcing young girls to perform sex acts for him. He did it, he said, “for control” and “for my own excitement.”
Most of the crimes took place in the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006. At that time he was a computer sciences student at St. Lawrence College.
Mark Bedford’s crime spree was exposed when investigators from England, Ontario, Alberta and BC joined forces and shared information at the RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre. He was charged in July 2006 and kept under house arrest at his parents’ home until he was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
At Mark Bedford’s sentencing, he apologized, “I want to say I’m sorry to the victims and families and I hope they can move on now.” A lot of them, of course, cannot. One young woman attempted suicide several times and began mutilating herself after Bedford traumatized and victimized her.
“My life is filled with fear — I do not trust anyone,” this poor woman said.
Ontario investigators believe he is one of the most prolific online sex predators they’ve encountered so far. The National Parole Board had deemed him too dangerous to give him early release from prison. Experts who assessed and “treated” him in prison concluded he is a high risk to reoffend even after treatment. These experts testified at his parole hearing that he showed little understanding of his crimes and minimized the damage done to the girls. Mark Bedford was only sorry that his parents were put in the glare of public scrutiny after he was arrested.
Mark Bedford admitted trying to trick sex offender experts who were assessing him. He didn’t want treatment when he was in prison and was twice warned he could be kicked out of the high intensity sex offender treatment program.
“I didn’t think I needed it,” Bedford admitted. “I didn’t think I was that damaged.” Oh, he’s damaged all right. And unhappily all those hundreds of girls he manipulated and terrorized are damaged too.
So now pedophile Mark Bedford is footloose and fancy free but he is on a leash. Bedford is barred from possessing or using “any computer system, digital storage media or any device with ability to access the Internet.” And the police can show up at any time, without any warning, and scrutinize any computers he is able to access.
Bedford is also barred from engaging in “any activity” that involves contact with anyone under age 16.
I have strong doubts that such an unrepentant online predator can stay offline. I rather hope he will get caught accessing the Internet and is hauled back to prison for a while longer.
Det. Sgt. Frank Goldschmidt, the provincial co-ordinator for strategy concerning illegal Internet activities, frequently talks to students about Internet safety.
“If there are things you would feel uncomfortable doing in your school hallway, why would you do it on the Internet?” he asks them. “Especially when you don’t know because you can’t normally see who you’re talking to.” Good question.
“It just totally amazes me when kids are on Facebook and those social gathering networks, how much personal information and photographs they post on these sites of themselves,” he said.
It amazes me too.
“I often ask kids, why do you do that? They say, ‘You know, it’s for my friends.’ My response is, ‘If they are your friends, they already know what you look like, they know where you live, they know how old you are.’
“You’re really just putting seeds out there for people who are preying to find you. As easy as you can put it out there, they can take it down and use it for purposes you wouldn’t want them to use it for.”
Det. Sgt. Frank Goldschmidt also warns parents not to use the computer as “an electronic babysitter” until they get home from work. He believes it’s unwise to allow teenagers to have computers in their bedroom.
“It amazes me how many people let kids have video cameras and phones and computers in their bedroom away from everybody else. How can you possibly see what they’re doing? People are leery about letting their kids go to the movie theatres. They need to be just as cautious with their kids going on the Internet.”
Amen to that, Det. Sgt. Frank Goldschmidt. I hope that parents out there will use the horrid example of hellbeast Mark Bedford to keep their children safe.
And Mark Bedford, rot you bastard. We know you for the pedophile you are. Own up, man up, and do the world a favour by departing as soon as possible.
The folks at cancrime has notes from his rejected release papers from March:
We here at pysih.com are a bit late to this game, contributor and one of the new editors here at pysih, Cleo had an article at Hellsbeasts and brought this thing to our attention. As we searched for corroborating evidence, cancrime’s detailed notes had to get an honorable mention from us as well.
But our glorious editor Max the Cat has taught us more than to simply pour over the past writings of excellent posts, he always sought long and hard to insure we had a few more bits and pieces to make absolutely certain we were pinning this on the right person.
Should Mark Bedford roast in hell?
- Yes, he deserves it totally and more! (91%, 475 Votes)
- No, we all misbehave on the Internet. (9%, 47 Votes)
Total Voters: 522
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What. An. Asshole.
Reading this made me wish Bubba the Bodacious Buttdrill would take mark bedford for a weenie-ride and teach him the full meaning of the words “rectal rupture”. And then deny him medical assistance, seeing as how he’s “not that damaged”.
Jesus fuck.
But on a lighter note, another good one, Cleo. You sure know how to raise my blood-pressure. ;-)
Bubba the Bodacious Buttdrill? I totally wish I had an excuse to use that one this festive season but alas, no available/appropriate targets. But thanks to you, Homer, I shall tuck that one in my back pocket for the future. You slay me!
I hope some little birdie drops the location of where this disgusting puke lives so some of these little girls’ daddies can get ahold of him and give him the beatdown he truly deserves.
Kill him
Burn him
This man must die, and die slowly.
Its discusting monsters like this that never really get the type of punishment that they deserve..Oh wait the article mentions Canada which is very soft and liberal when it comes to criminals no wonder..for a minute I thought he only got that until I realized it was Canada.
Agreed, just look at people like Karla Homolka! She got 12 yrs for raping & murdering her OWN LITTLE SISTER! Then raping & murder 3other lil girls I think 13-16yrs old & was just as into it as her sicko husband. 12 yrs! She should’ve got the death penalty…
I am all for meeting girls on line and I’ve sealed the deal with more then my fair share of them. The difference is that nothing about the idea of young girls and sex even remotely turns me on. I just don’t even get it and can only assume people llike this idiot mark Bedford are mutants, some sort of biological mistake. He shows no remorse
Ugh, I live in Kingston.
good god. Just seeing his picture he looks cute. reading all of that I feel sick. and my mother wonders why I am not rushing back into dating after ex left me & the kid.
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A man did something like this to me once on the internet. He told me his name was Melissa and he promised me he was a woman in real life. He engaged me in sexual conversations, and more. What is wrong with people like this?
I am sorry to hear tha you were a victim.
These people are not sick, they are evil.
Why?
Control.
They enjoy suffering, they enjoy the control they have to make ine suffer, one plead.
Essentially it’s an online rape.
Wow. If someone did that to my daughter they wouldn’t exist anymore.
The recurring themes in predatory personalities are always interesting to me. Predators are always about control. And they always seem endlessly enamored of their own cleverness. There seems to be a general sense that anyone stupid enough to trust them has it coming.
But in most cases there’s not even anything especially clever about what they do. They fool people because normal people think, who would be enough of a creep to do such a thing? And so they incorrectly rule out the possibility of what is actually going on because, you know, who would do that? Well, creeps like Mark would do that, that’s who.
Mark Bedford wasn’t as clever as he thought he was. My favorite example of this type is Philip Markoff, the Craigslist Killer. Philip beat up and killed women he recruited on the internet, but he also spent a lot of time trying to pick up T-girls. You have to think he was taking his hatred and fear of his own homosexuality out on innocent people.
Philip was a high-achieving medical student, and thought he was way too smart for anyone to catch him. But he left obvious internet footprints back to himself. And he hid the gun he used to kill his victims in a hollowed-out book, a standard hiding place every cop knows. But Philip thought the cops were too stupid to know that.
What a world, huh?
I think this is obvious, but this story makes me want to be extra careful. For anyone experiencing amorous feelings about me, I share my life with someone who is my lover and my best friend and I am completely unavailable to you beyond the boundaries of this website. I would think my lack of any invitation to extra-website activity would speak for itself, but, you know, it’s the internet. If anyone’s struggling with my unbelievable sexiness, let me know and we can talk about it.
My apologies for double-posting. But I walked away from my last post and it hit me… duh!!! I’m an internet crime victim!
So skip this post if you’re not interested. But I learned some pretty cool stuff, so if anyone cares let me share…
WHY MARK BEDFORD WAS REALLY, REALLY STUPID
In 2007 I had a run-in with some internet creeps, and all of a sudden a key-logger appeared on my computer and an especially hateful creep who went by the fake name of Annabelle wrote a thinly-veiled death threat to me. I didn’t want to bother the FBI at the time with what might have been a weird coincidence.
But a year later I had cause to contact a federal prosecutor. And my agent (I work in the entertainment industry) hooked me up with someone who turned out to be crazily overqualified, he’s one of the nation’s legal personal security experts and he knows everything about the internet and internet crime.
So while I had him, I asked him about the keylogger, and I asked him if it would be legal for me to pay him to give me a real-life address for this “Annabelle” person, since she had threatened me. He said it actually would not be legal, and he recommended against it. He said first of all, why do that, I’m not a criminal and neither are you. The smarter way to play it, he said, was keep a copy of the keylogger, give one to him, and he’d give it to the FBI.
And he told me (we’re getting to why this is relevant) you’re actually in a stronger position if you stay legal, as soon as you do anything criminal you greatly reduce your legal options in the future. And getting an ID on “Annabelle” right away is irrelevant, he said, because if anything real ever happened, and these are his words, “these people have left tracks on the internet they can never erase.”
So there you have it, from a guy who even turned out to have a personal relationship with the federal prosecutor I needed to contact. Guys like Mark Bedford are stupid on top of everything else. Internet crooks thrive by flying under the radar. Once you do something worthy of the FBI’s attention, once you give them due cause to find you, they’re going to get you.
So don’t write death threats and don’t invade people’s computers. They can find us all if they want to badly enough. And, before you freak out, think about it: it’s better that way, isn’t it?
The Internet is different from the Post Office.
1. A letter I send via snail mail stays closed
2. The original is always passed along, the paper I wrote on goes to my intended receiver (most of the time)
The internet
1. “Opens” an email
2. Sends copies of the message
3. Keeps copies of the message to verify that the receiver got the senders message
Steps 2 & 3 happen repeatedly…
So remember – the Internet Instant and permanent!
what the fuck is this site…?? who the fuck makes you decide who goes to hell and who doesnt you stupid cunts….not being bad that one goes to hell you ingornat blind cunts
You mean that when I click that little button I’m not automatically sending someone down to the pit to meet Satan? I am disappoint.\
Seriously, could someone send us an intelligent troll? Please!
Uhh yeah thats what I come for lol! :D
WOW – Wireless internet under bridges!
The site speaks for itself, but we’ll come back to that.
If you’re speaking from a religious standpoint, then God actually gives us the right. The right to choose. To judge and be judged. But, it’s all good pun for me, because I know it’s just a matter of social opinion. I’ll leave the actual judging of the souls to God.
You’re last statement/sentence/wtf ever you call that, makes no sense, but I will attempt to make some kind of reasoning with it.
Ignorant: a : destitute of knowledge or education ; also : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified
Common Synonym of Ignorant: Rude AKA Uncultivated
Blind- 2. unwilling or unable to perceive or understand
You make a strong case against YOURSELF.
Seeing as you have represented yourself as lacking enough education to properly type a simple sentence, lacking comprehension of details clearly provided, rude, and unwilling or unable to perceive or understand simple subject matter, your ‘insult(s)’ are of no importance to me. The same goes for just about anyone here, for that matter.
In my opinion, you are a troll.
Go do something more suited to your intellectual level, such as fornicating with an electric pencil sharpener.
*Your* Oops.
Could you please not refer to the girls who were victimized as “damaged”? They are not damaged goods. I was abused as a child, and I am not damaged goods. Thank you.
The term “damaged” does not just refer to damaged goods. In this case, it refers more to damage of the spirit, of one’s sense of safety and self-worth, and mental and emotional wounding that may be difficult or even impossible to completely recover from.
Nobody has said these girls are “goods” in any way. They were not damaged in the sense that a car gets damaged, for example. They’ve been deeply hurt, and have suffered damage to the soul and the psyche. I suffered emotional abuse for much of my life, the effects of which haunt me to this day, and while I don’t consider myself to be permanently ruined or anything like that, damage HAS been done.
We are not the ones that are sending anyone to hell, they are sending themselves to BURN IN HELL! I also believe in Karma on Earth!! The sorry Son of bitches that prey on children and teenagers and any one for that matter, are Satan’s Devil! They will rot in Hell, but if their sorry ass is ever known in public I would personally do to them what they did to those innocent victims! Send them to rot in prison, and let them be somebodies little BITCH! See how they like it! Disgusting scum of the Earth just like the people that come on this thread and defend them!! Enough said for the moment!
This guy is way too good at being bad. I wish he hadn’t been released, but I’m glad he’s at least being watched! So many times in the past, a budding serial killer has done some already-awful things, served a little jailtime, then just fell off the radar until bodies started showing up everywhere. Hopefully vigilence will either send this freak back to prison or at least help prevent him from geining new victims.
Wack his pee pee!
This POS sounds like he may have been the type of kid that the parents were glad to have out of their hair…… They were just glad that he found something to do that kept him out of their faces….
He is an internet rapist…
Just that simple
Just because he was 100′s and 1000′s of miles / kilometers away does not make his shit smell any better than the guy waiting to jump someone in an alley….
Sounds’ like Ricky Smyrnes and Pervert Nita the Drunk!
Nine percent of voters thought this guy doesn’t deserve hell? What, did a bunch of pedophiles comes here and vote, or what?
What a sad, sick, twisted individual.
A person like that with disturbing fantasies, desperately need psycho therapy.
A very long sentence in prison for him with solitaire confinement.
I don’t like to condemn anyone, ever. Mark Bedford earned the punishment of hell.
Could you please not refer to the girls who were victimized as “damaged”? I was abused as a child, and I am not “damaged goods”. These girls were hurt, but do not give him the power of saying that they are permanently “damaged goods”.
Shoot him
He definitely deserves hell. However, what kind of imbeciles are these girls to do something that someone (ANYONE) on a computer screen tells them? He FORCED them? That made me laugh. And she lifted her shirt because she thought it was her girlfriend?
I don’t feel bad for teenagers that act like that. HELLO, turn off the computer.
I’m glad my daughter (22 years old) has lots of morals. In fact, she was away at college and decided that she’d rather be home because of how her roommates acted.
Thankfully he’s back in jail as he was just arrested again! Unfortunately this sick f*** is my child’s uncle! (on her dads side) he hid the crimes his brother committed from people till I spoke up to protect MY daughter and all the other kids his brother has made!
“However, what kind of imbeciles are these girls to do something that someone (ANYONE) on a computer screen tells them? He FORCED them? That made me laugh. And she lifted her shirt because she thought it was her girlfriend?
I don’t feel bad for teenagers that act like that. HELLO, turn off the computer”…..My sentiments exactly!!!….There’s images of women(and girls) happily exposing themselves all over the internet; They Are Not forced to do it, they do it for the attention/because they see other girls doing it, etc. If your teenage girl has internet access and is up late online taking their clothes off, I’m sorry, but that’s a parenting problem, Evil Bieber just had the evil ingenuity to exploit it.
Seriously!! The young girls he victimized don’t think like an adult, because they are not an adult! I am glad that you have “GOOD” kids Quote. You would be shocked what YOUR good kids do behind closed doors. But the message I got from you idiots is that you acted like they deserved it!!!!!! REALLY!!!! NO ONE DESERVES THIS!! Parents cannot be with their kids 24/7! Most households have both parents working to survive! They do their best to raise good kids! On that note though, I will say that there are sorry ass parents that are idiots and crackheads and don’t give a crap. But I think it would be wonderful if there was a mandated class starting in elementary school, junior high and high school about abuse, mental, physical, verbal, etc. Yes it is a parents responsibility to teach their kids about this. But children spend more time in school then at home. They are taught about drugs in school and to SAY NO. But abuse from boyfriends, adults, other children, even parents sexually abusing these kids should be discussed to children from 1st grade to 12th grade. Of course age appropriate info. at certain ages of the children. I personally have threatened to hurt very badly, a man that moved in down the street from my 4 year old grandson. He has been trying to talk to him. He does have 2 boys. They are age 10 and 12. But I have a grandmothers intuition about this guy! Something is not right! He wants my 4 year old to come to his house to PLAY???? HELL NO!! My daughter has got an ASS chewing as well, she is gullible. She is young and thinks everybody are good! I told him I will randomly be watching his house and the going ons. I have already alerted police. Can’t do anything until a crime is committed. !!!!REALLY!! Oh Hell NO! I will take things into my own hands if need be! I told the cops that! These people need to be stopped!!!!
I’m gonna go way out on a limb here, not only because I can’t stand all the predictable, socially-conditioned responses, but because as sick as it is, the kid was a f***ing genius….Never read of a chicken-hawk more ingenious, again, twisted little f**k, but dangerously smart for his age. And although his online abilities have been blocked, I almost wonder if someone like this could evolve into a much more dangerous predator if he is DENIED the ability to ‘get off’ online!
This psychopath ruined the lives of 5 young girls, one of which attempted suicide and began self-mutilating, entire families have been effected and will be for life. Do you find it all an affront to Morality, or absent your morality then whatever cold logic you abide, in your labelling this sick fuck a “genius” for no other conceivable reason but the modus operandi by which he committed such heinous crimes?
“Predictable, socially-conditioned”?
Well yeah, we’re all socially-conditioned aren’t we? Ever employed the use of language to communicate to other people via the internet? You can thank social-conditioning for that, and most everything else that constitutes who you are. Although don’t thank it all that greatly, as it has patently failed to facilitate in you a sense of empathy or moral compass. Why come off as boring, predictable and socially-conditioned by, yanno, having a heart and expressing completely justified outrage for disturbed psychopathic criminals, when you can just come off like psychopathic apologist yourself by concession of glorifying their crimes for their apparent “ingenuity” in a vain bid to appear special on teh interwebz?
Kids and their role models these days. Used to be that upstanding savants like Charles Darwin, Paul Dirac and Nikola Tesla were hailed as Geniuses for their contributions to society. Nowadays though, we positively swoon before the saddest, most callous, and emotionally shallow dregs of society, and in all our myopia somehow come to equate their deranged machinations with something of a virtue to be admired.
For a screen name like “Diamond”, you hardly seem to possess much in the way of value.
There’s nothing genius about it. He was twisted, and he used the twisted individual’s go-to tactic- blackmail. Its manipulation through fear, its more common than you think, and its certainly not sophisticated. Children are naive, and especially vulnerable to intimidation, hence why its up to the better of us to protect them, teach them about these things. On that note- where the FUCK were the parents?