Posted on 08/22/2020 1:23:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I’m not a lawyer. If this predator makes an appointment with someone they think is underage, and it’s an adult, did they still commit a crime, and they can be convicted from that?
If an adult thinks he’s sending a picture of his privates to an underage person, I think he’s in a lot of trouble.
If he talks explicitly about what they are going to do together, he’s probably in trouble.
But he’s not coordinating with police so nothing will happen to them
I think it’s a little weird to do this on your own.
Yes, thats how the old Dateline specials with Chris Hansen worked. In some states it was just a misdemeanor and showing up was the felony. In others it was a felony outright to make the plan. The problem as you go further into the amateur spectrum is you pretty much take the word of the vigilante that they’re on the level when at best they may not be dotting all their is and ts and at worse they’re up to funny business with entrapment or simply outright making a false accusation, you can visit Divorce Court to see how easily some people throw around life ending accusations of pedophilia. Dateline had some screwups where they had to let the guys go and Unemployed Vigilante Man is an even more guerilla operation.
I saw a special on a guy that was doing it on his own.
He had a record too.
I think they think their crimes were “better” than the ones these other guys are trying to commit.
And yeah child molesting is really at the bottom rung and disgusting and sick and since it’s kids we feel 10x more awful hearing about it.
But beating someone with a pipe or even your fists doesn’t make you a good guy.
He seemed like an attention whore more than anything.
15 is legal in about 90% of the world. Sex with a 15 year old does not constitute pedophilia. It is a legal violation but not a psychiatric one.
How specific does the plans they’re making have to be? if some 30-year-old man was taking a 15-year-old to Comic-Con to see some kind of sci-fi panel is that a crime?
child molesters are bad. But I kind of think it’s the police’s job to catch them. Of course if you see evidence of some kind of thing like that then you go to the police and tell them.
Of course I think I posted an article here earlier this year about some guy who has a website that’s something like for contract killers and he gets tons of people emailing him for contract killings and he just sends it to the police. And some of these people have ended up being convicted of cuz the police send some kind of undercover person out to meet them.
That’s a little weird to me too but I guess he’s gotten actual criminals off the streets.
Depending on the laws of the specific state or country? Probably.
Can they be convicted from that? That depends on the evidence available against them. When it’s the police/FBI/other law enforcement conducting the investigation, there are a lot of rules and procedures they follow to make sure they have a solid case to present to prosecutors. They’re establishing clear intent, chain of custody on all evidence collected, positive identification of the suspect, and so on.
Some guy just doing stings on his own? Probably isn’t putting together any sort of case that any prosecutor can realistically use. If anything, people like this are probably helping these perverts avoid future stings. Once they’ve realized the level of risk, they’ll put in a lot more effort to ensure future activities are more clandestine, leave less evidence, and make it harder to put a case together against them. I seriously doubt that most law enforcement officers working these types of cases appreciate amateurs like this running their own little sting operations. It makes the job of those law enforcement officers that much harder and probably makes the world a little more dangerous for those most vulnerable to exploitation.
The age of consent needs to drop to 14 or 15.
It used to be that age in some states. I believe Georgia had an age of consent of 14 until they changed it before the 1996 Olympics.
“I think it’s a little weird to do this on your own.”
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The desire for publicity and to be hailed as a great person can be a strong drive. Also, there’s easy money to be made in all the the misc. online “influencer” rackets.
“The age of consent needs to drop to 14 or 15.”
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Why doesn’t it “need” to be dropped?
“The age of consent needs to drop to 14 or 15.”
Why? Because you can’t control yourself?
Im sure the Muslims will have a problem with this, RACIST!
Well, I;ve always said that is why it isn’t a crime until the person goes through with it. One the Internet she seems to be Britney Spears at 15. In person, not so much. So, when a policeman plays a 15 year old you are getting the fantasy version. Not the little girl version. Hence the mismatched attraction.
No because that makes the most sense.
Devils advocate here.
Why?
Seems that youthful vigor is what we are programmed to be attracted to.
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