You posted: Things really started heating up when NBC hounded a man to the point of suicide.
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Perhaps this man committed suicide because he was caught attempting to have sex with a minor. I don’t care that much for the technique NBC used in its show but these guys are perverts seeking sex from teenaged girls
I find it hard to muster much sympathy for them even as opposed to NBC
I don't believe that's what actually happened.
The shows emanate from selected states---states that HAVE LAWS ALREADY ON THE BOOKS regarding child sex and transmitting explicit images and sex talk.
The perverts initiate the sex talk---that's when the decoy (acting like a younsgter) takes over the chat.
Some of these disgusting men transmit pictures of their genitals and videos of themselves masturbating to kids they think are as young as 12.
Some of the perverts are calculating and make dates to meet the decoys in other locales.
Appears that's what happened in the suicide case. The guy probably tried to lure the decoy to his home---and freaked when NBC showed up.
The To Catch a Predator shows are not about NBC entrapping perverts---it's about perverts entrapping children into sex.
Perhaps this man committed suicide because he knew that his face was going to be all over NBC, and he was going to be accused of attempting to have sex with a minor, but in fact he was not doing so.
There are a lot of alternate scenarios. Perhaps he was trying to help somebody he thought was a minor caught up in a tragic situation. Perhaps the thought it was all an adult role-playing game, and he was attempting to have sex with an adult.
We don't know. Now we will never know. We should demand a higher standard than "perhaps".