You keep asserting that this family took the law into their own hands as if they had another course of action. Tell me what that course of action would be? Call the police to tell them that their 14 year old daughter was going to the park to meet a man that promised her $200 to be in his movie and wait for the police to handle it?
Really?!
If you found out that your daughter was doing the same, would you not consider her to be in imminent bodily harm? Would you call the police and stay away from the park while there was a chance that you may never see your precious baby girl again? If so, you're a terrible parent. If not, then what's your beef with this family for doing everything they could to protect their daughter from becoming another missing or murdered child?
Once they saw their daughter wasn't in his car, they had no business touching him. They went to far. There was no reason that they had to detain the person. He was no longer an immediate threat, or perceived threat to their daughter.
Why is that so hard for you to understand?
And how DARE you call me a terrible parent. I'm just not a STUPID parent is all.
In fact, this girls parents are the terrible parents. The fact that they didn't know until it was almost too late what their daughter was doing, and didn't know how long and how many other times she has met with guys from the internet to go make porn movies for money, essentially prostituting herself, isn't exactly what I would call good parenting. Letting a 14 year old chat it up with guys on dating sites at all isn't good parenting.
Once they saw their child was not it this guys car, it was STUPID of them to confront him further. He may have had a gun for all they know, and because they didn't know under what circumstances this guy thought he was meeting this girl, whether he assumed she was older, of legal age, he could have SHOT one of them, or their other kid, and done so LEGALLY because from his perpsective, he was being attacked by raving lunatics.
Obviously they never thought everything through. They put their children in danger for no good reason. And had something terrible happened, the father end up dead, damage their daughters mental well being for life.
MY daughters would never be in that kind of situation. I ALWAYS knew where they were who they were with, and what they did on the computer. EVERY KEYSTROKE. They were not allowed to take a computer into their room. They were not allowed to chat on date sites. No facebook, myspace nothing. They were not even allowed to date until they were 18. And as long as they lived under my roof and I was paying their way through collage, they had to abide by MY rules. After 18, if they didn't like it, they knew where the door was.
Now they are fine young professional ladies with good careers in their chosen fields, and are very glad that they didn't turn out like some of their friends.