If this account as you presented it tells the truth of what happened to your friend, then I think he was unfairly prosecuted. That being said, these types of accounts are the exception to the rule. Most of the men that get busted in these sting operations have only one thing on their mind; They want to have sex with a young teenage girl.
Drew, I agree with you. Her 19 year old friend was arrested , but what if he had meet with what he thought was a friendly scene, and instead of an Undercover cop, he meet the man with the gun and a rope.
I believe that what I wrote is the truth. It's filtered through the mother so has a bias. But I have no reason not to believe it, especially when she says her son did participate in an immoral and sexually explicit conversation online. Yes, I believe it was a bad prosecution. It went to trial the week that the Duke Soccer team case was coming to the public eye and although that was an entirely different type of story, it was still college men "preying" on women. The other men who showed up were older geezers looking for sex with young girls. Our friend was one of the teen-agers who got caught up in it. A few months earlier and he would still have been 17.