MySpace is installing software that identifies adults pretending to be children through their grammar, usage and vocabulary. These programs are remarkably effective, detecting approximately 90% of adults pretending to be children.
If a software program can do it, can’t a person? Perhaps some of these guys discerned that the decoy really was not thirteen years old.
They are still idiots, I will grant you. They are still perverts, even. But are they criminals?
Yes they are criminals because they conspire to commit a crime. As we have seen from the show, they aren’t shy about committing the crime.
For every pervert, there is a victim. I KNOW some of the victims. 13 year-old girls who think it is cool to talk trash to men online. Even sexually explicit stuff. It really does happen. I expect adults to know better.
Note: I have a 13 year-old daughter and some of her friends got busted for it. Mostly Myspace and Facebook stuff.