If it was real they would have had the girl say she’d meet him but instead have the police meet him there with handcuffs.
In this day and age that is the level of evidence that should be necessary to prove this kind of claim. And maybe law enforcement people can say better, but I think that’s the usual protocol for catching true predators who target girls online. If it isn’t, it should be.
Actually, that has turned into a sport for small town police departments all over the US. They found out that with the Internet, they could lure predators to Podunk, so a town of 1500 might get three or four major felony busts, and their police chief would get reelected forever.
I’ve long thought they could use this technique to nail violent jihadis. Just let it be known on the Internet that Salman Rushdie, Benjamin Netanyahu and George W. Bush are meeting in an isolated cabin near Podunk. Then when a carload full of explosives and dumbasses show up, the local cops with deer rifles dispatch them, and drop them and their car down an abandoned mineshaft.