Article: Text message helps rescue Mass. boy

HOGANSVILLE, Ga. - A man was arrested after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met on MySpace.com sent a text message to his family claiming he was being held against his will on the man's west Georgia sheep farm, police said.

Ted Roy Williams, 58, was arrested Thursday and being held on charges of aggravated sodomy and false imprisonment, Troup County Sheriff's Lt. Rick Massie said. A judge set his bond Friday at $1 million.

Williams met the boy on the online networking site two weeks ago and after the two conversed on the site Williams eventually convinced the teen to visit him in Georgia, Massie said. He bought a plane

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