Posted on 01/06/2025 12:09:29 PM PST by Round Earther
Five college students in Massachusetts are accused of luring a man to the Assumption University campus in a plot that the police said was inspired by the television show “To Catch a Predator” and a fad on TikTok.
The students were part of a larger group that chased the man from a campus building after he was invited there by a student on the dating app Tinder, expecting to meet an adult, according to a criminal complaint issued in Worcester District Court on Dec. 4.
The campus police at Assumption University, a small Catholic school in Worcester, said in the complaint that the group accused the man of being a sexual predator, stopped him from leaving a student lounge and recorded the episode as part of a “deliberately staged event.”
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tic tok has become the DIY headquarters for all kinds of things. now if only there was one for taking down the subway offenders that literally get away with murder.
These students keep playing this game, they’re going to meet someone armed and ready to protect himself.
This gives vigilante groups a bad name.
This is a Catholic school??
Am I confused here-aren’t most college students 18 years old? I know a lot of people think it’s unseemly for a man to date an 18-year-old woman, but it’s not against the laws last I checked. Am I missing something?
I don’t like it. It’s kind of creepy and weird. Of course, I don’t know the specifics of what was going on and what languages used, pictures shared, however they do it… But it seems too much like Orwell’s “spies” in his 1984 novel.
Another report indicates that the man was 22.
If that’s true, I don’t see anything creepy about that.
Apparently. Though I guess it’s just Catholic in name only.
Perhaps in name only. Some are run mostly by and for the PC belief systems of lay people.
Maybe these particular parents aren’t raising their kids right.
Much of the hierarchy seems pretty ‘PC’ these days, too.
The troublemakers may be Incels who cannot find and keep their own woman, so instead of looking into a mirror for someone to blame, they look online for the most easily accessible stranger.
Three paragraphs in and it doesn’t make sense you know it’s obfuscation.
Your right. There is nothing wrong with the age difference.
Am I confused here-aren’t most college students 18 years old? I know a lot of people think it’s unseemly for a man to date an 18-year-old woman, but it’s not against the laws last I checked. Am I missing something?
Maybe he refused to date a trans...
>> expecting to meet an adult
>> accused the man of being a sexual predator
defer to the authorities as they have the necessary indemnity should the sting operation be based on erroneous data
nonetheless, no quarter for predators
There’s that too.
And the courts have prevented colleges from acting in loco parentis for these young adults, mostly thanks to Leftist litigation.
I think the “refused to date a trans” might be it? Maybe Cold_Red_Steel is on to something there.
In any case, everyone involved should be charged with kidnapping if they refused to let him leave and physically prevented it.
I don’t either. This kind of thing sets off alarm bells for me though. I don’t like it. Something reminds me of East Germany with this.
I didn’t think of that, but I can see these same kinds of people setting someone up with that.
There are no bounds to their illness.
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