"Why was this kid playing along with Foley?"
Good question. One possibility is that the kid is gay and likes old men.
More plausable to me is that the kid was just role playing, stringing him along to see how far Foley would go with it. As I mentioned earlier, I bet this kid told his friends about it and they all egged him on, It was the cruel joke of the year to play on someone.
I know kids that have several personalities on MySpace and use them just as someone with mulitple screen names on a message board would.
Yeah, it was totally cruel. I can't believe that some kid played along and responded to Foley's suggestive emails. That kid should have ended the text messages as soon as he realized that Foley was gay so that Foley wouldn't have been caught. That kid ruined Foley's career. I would expect more from a sixteen year-old than a fifty year-old member of Congress.
It looked like dialogue from a VH1 reality show.
An adult man who holds one of the most powerful posts in the country is allegedly preying on 16-year-old kids in his and his colleagues' emply, and you're criticizing the kid for playing a "cruel joke?"
Please, if the kid's evidence leads to prosecution of a child predator, the kid isn't cruel -- he's a hero. The left thinks Linda Tripp was cruel for leading on Monica, too, but we know better.