It’s less than a month since the update on our last Computer Predator investigation aired, and here we are in another upper middle class home, in another state… starting yet another investigation. I’ve just landed in Southern California and driven to the home where we’ll be working for the next three days. In less than 24 hours, a parade of men will be arriving here to meet a 12 or 13-year old-boy or girl after having a sexually charged conversation online. The scene is chaotic.
Mitch Wagenberg and his team are still hooking up the more than a dozen hidden cameras we’ll need for the shoot. There are enough cables and wires running through the house to power a 737 jetliner.
A virtual TV control room is taking shape in the master bedroom.
Volunteers from the computer watchdog group Perverted Justice are in another bedroom posing as kids online. The PJ folks like the room to be dark. The computer screens glow and the keys click rapid-fire. They are chatting with dozens of men who are already eager to pay us a visit.
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My understanding is that the PJ people simply chat with the men in question, and let them control the conversation. They don't make the first move, the suspects have to.
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It's not entrapment if a law enforcement officer does not solicit or coerce someone to do something illegal. These sick fucks are so gung-ho about screwing children that most of the time, they'll be the ones to suggest "meeting". Once that happens, they simply arrest the fuckers.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
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I saw the first one on MSNBC. The prosecutors in Virginia said they couldn't nail these fucks because the people at Perverted Justice were adults, so technically the child molesters weren't actually arranging meetings with minors (at least not as far as they could prove).
I'm glad they show these scumbags on TV so their families, friends, co-workers and neighbors have a chance to see them for what they are.
Elfdart wrote:I saw the first one on MSNBC. The prosecutors in Virginia said they couldn't nail these fucks because the people at Perverted Justice were adults, so technically the child molesters weren't actually arranging meetings with minors (at least not as far as they could prove).
I'm glad they show these scumbags on TV so their families, friends, co-workers and neighbors have a chance to see them for what they are.
What? That's the most absurd thing I've heard in a long time. Many law enforcement agencies do the exact same thing, but it's police officers posing as children. Still not entrapment, just FEI.
Kamakazie Sith wrote:What? That's the most absurd thing I've heard in a long time. Many law enforcement agencies do the exact same thing, but it's police officers posing as children. Still not entrapment, just FEI.
Actually, what happens in a lot of cases is that these sick fucks will start sending the officers child pornography. That's when they arrange the meeting and book the bastard on trafficking kiddie porn. It sometimes takes a while though. These guys sometimes start off by sending their targets adult porn and then ween them onto kiddie porn to make them think sexual relationships with adults are okay.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
