If they are chatting up cops pretending to be kids, they are searching out kids. If a perp solicits sex from someone he believes is a minor, he should go to the big house.
They do not arrest you for meeting someone. We had a local kid get “met” by an older guy from 100’s of miles away. He didn’t get arrested. You have to solicit sex. These are the easiest crimes to document because the pervs are verbose and likely to send a picture of their privates.
So ...no. You can’t defend it.
Bullshit you don’t get arrested for “meeting” someone and not soliciting sex.
Read some of the cases. It’s totally unconstitutional. They arrest you even if you don’t solicit sex.
And like I said, the cops usually are on ADULT websites posting as 18-20 YEAR OLD WOMEN. They aren’t posting as kids. You don’t go onto an ADULT website with “INTENT” to have sex with a CHILD. But here we are, the police going where men are vulnerable to getting stung, instead of going where the kids are vulnerable.
Yes, I can and WILL defend it. Because it’s unconstitutional police shenanigans, shoddy police work, and TAX-PAYER MONEY can be better spent to find people that ARE PIMPING MINORS, ACTUALLY HAVING SEX WITH MINORS, MOLESTING KIDS, or any other ACTUAL CRIME other than chatting with someone pretending to be 18-20 pretending to be 15-17, pretending to talk about sex when in most cases there isn’t even an actual victim involved.