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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The sister of a former U.S. state prosecutor who killed himself after he was targeted by a television show as a suspected pedophile is suing NBC Universal for $105 million. Louis William Conradt, 56, shot himself in November 2006 after he was confronted at his Terrell, Texas, home by police, whom the lawsuit said were carrying television cameras for a "To Catch a Predator" segment of NBC's Dateline program. NBC has said Conradt had contacted a decoy posing as a 13-year-old boy. But Conradt did not visit the "sting house" the show set up in Murphy,...

In the "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" show, men accused of having explicit online chats with people they think are underage children go to a house to meet them, where TV cameras, host Chris Hansen and police await. Louis William Conradt Jr., of Terrell, Texas, a Dallas suburb, was suspected of being one of those men, except he didn't show up at the house. That didn't stop the TV producers and police from showing up at his, though, and as officers knocked on his door and a camera crew waited in the street, Conradt shot and killed himself. His...

Mom-based Internet sites that usually focus on tame topics like finding an affordable nanny or buying ballet shoes have latched on to a more serious issue: Getting rid of an admitted pedophile who recently moved to the Los Angeles area. Users of Web sites including Peachhead, Moms Club and Booby Brigade are using a high-tech form of vigilante justice to try to exile a man named Jack McClellan, a self-proclaimed pedophile with a Web site of his own. "I can't think of a topic that has been as heated as this," said Linda Perry, who launched www.peachheadfamilies.com in 1997. "There...

A Maryland rabbi caught in a television sting operation was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison yesterday for trying to solicit sex from a 13-year-old boy over the Internet. David A. Kaye, 56, told the judge that he traveled to Herndon for what he thought would be sex with a boy "as a cry out for help to fight my personal demons." Sobbing as he acknowledged his father, who sat in the courtroom in a wheelchair, Kaye said his conviction had made him face "the reality of who I am. . . . I know I need help. I...

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