Do you know how you get those e-mails or messages that say don’t join a certain Facebook group because it’s run by pedophiles and it turns out to be a hoax? It seems that for at least one Facebook group it wasn’t a hoax at all.

While he didn’t try to convince parents to join his Facebook group federal investigators say 38-year-old James Paul Byrd of Lincolnton, North Carolina ran a Facebook group in order to trade child porn with other pedophiles.

Byrd’s group was called  “little girls love to play to :)” and he belonged to another called “girls girls girls.” Byrd allegedly used the alias of  Stephanie Stewart. Also busted by the feds in the same operation were Michael Engelking, David Large, Brian Slott, Daniel Slott, and Henry Wright. Investigators say that all six men used female aliases on Facebook while exchanging child porn with each other.

Did they really think by using female aliases that they would somehow evade the authorities? They would have had a better chance if they dressed in drag at the time of their arrests. Now they’re going to be somebody’s girlfriend soon.