Infoseek Executive Accused of Soliciting Sex With a Minor
Sunnyvale, California, Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Infoseek Corp. Executive Vice President Patrick Naughton, who oversees the Walt Disney Co.'s Web sites, has been charged with using the Internet to solicit sex with a minor, the Los Angeles Times reported. Naughton, 34, was arrested Thursday on the Santa Monica Pier in California, where he had been lured by electronic messages from a male FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl; a Disney spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter. Naughton has overall responsibility for the Go Network, the Internet portal for Disney's online businesses, though earlier he helped create the Internet programming language Java as an employee of Sun Microsystems Inc., the paper said.
Burbank, California-based Disney said in July it will buy the remaining stake of Sunnyvale, California-based Infoseek, the fourth-largest Internet search service, that it doesn't already own.
(LAT 9/18 www.latimes.com)
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