Posted on 01/25/2008 9:44:20 AM PST by SmithL
Diamond, Mo. (AP) -- No one will ever confuse Jim Murray with a teenager. His tall frame, broad shoulders and clipped gray hair give him away for the grandfather he is.
But the 69-year-old retired police chief of this small Missouri town cuts a credible figure as a 13-year-old girl surfing the Web, looking for friends. He knows all the instant-messaging shorthand, the emoticons.
Murray's retirement job from a rural home office has netted 20 arrests since he started in 2002. His latest catch was the biggest: four felony enticement charges against a town mayor, who after his arrest called Murray up and begged him to make the case go away.
Nineteen other defendants have included a Missouri furniture company executive, an Arkansas professor and a Tulsa, Okla., school security guard. Ten of those men have been convicted and sent to prison. One was deported. The other cases are still pending.
The defendants ranged in age from 24 to 62, with an average age of 39.4 years, and mainly come from Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, Diamond police said.
Internet child safety experts say police officers like Murray are heroes who do good work at the cost of wading through the muck of online pedophile fantasies.
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Excellent work!
He is a brave man. I don’t think I could scrub my brains enough with alcohol or whatever to get that junk out of my head.
Good for him.
Law enforcement at its finest.
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The internet, where men are women, women are men, and 13 year old girls are FBI agents.
as a side note, i am a little surprised this article is from a san fran paper. (aren't friscoans into tolearance for deviant behavior and all that)
“cindyndiamond”?
Boy, if that doesn’t scream jailbait stripper, I don’t know what does.
Just ask Scott Ritter.
I’d forgotten about that piece of crap.
He contacted experts in the field of Internet sting operation and got training from the National White Collar Crime Center on basic computer data recovery.
Why do I get this sick feeling that the retired chief is getting his jollies under the cover of law???
Several years ago when I was an Internet newbie I got an AOL chat message which I assumed to be an attempted entrapment. I replied “No Thanks Officer,” and the poster promptly left the room.
We've adopted a policy at our house (and it happened very naturally) that our teenagers (boy or girl) don't go to any of these kinds of websites. No "My Space", no "Face Book", or any other of those kinds of sites. They are too busy with their own friends anyway to worry about these kinds of sites, and being homeschooled, they just don't relate to a lot of the unnecessary "teen angst" and other such b.s. The little they hear about that kind of stuff usually prompts them to ask, "Why don't they just get a life?", or, "They need to build a bridge and get over it." (an unofficial family motto).
Those are proud parental moments.
Boy, if that doesn’t scream jailbait stripper, I don’t know what does.
Or pornstar wanting you to go to their exculsive personal website.
—I, too sometimes wonder about the true orientation of those engaging in this sort of activity, undercover agents and vice-squad members—
Yeah, you’re probably in more danger from real 13 year old girls pretending to be 18 than the other way around. Adolescents round up instead of down; it’s not until they age that they start acting too young for their age.
Hmm entrapment yes. So if you ever get a message from a “13 year old girl” who says she wants to show you her... umm, whatever... run like heck!
I've had the same playing games on yahoo a few years ago , didn't take long to figure out the woman/girl was cop, getting his jollies. Words out of the 60's-70's don't fit the kids now-days.
You think like a sane person, these perverts actually believe 13 year old girls would want to offer them stuff online. Their perversion keeps them from seeing reality.
Read the comments on the paper’s site, most are upset with the officer (retired) doing what he is doing. It is as though they think having sex with a 13 yo is normal.
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