Sure, that catch line sends any pedophile into sweaty shakes and most law-abiding citizens into rapt attention. Dateline's To Catch a Predator series has been on for a couple years, striking fear into the hearts of pervs and serving as the ultimate Punked for the rest of society.
The legality of the show has been questioned constantly, but the underlying theme remains: Don't solicit sex from kiddies on the internet*. It's not harmless. It's real and you will get caught.
A couple months ago the show caught a Texas assistant county prosecutor having sexually explicit conversations with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old boy. He didn't show up to the home Dateline set up so police and Dateline cameras went to his home to make an arrest. Realizing he had been caught, the guy shot himself.
I assume this man was guilty. A reaction like that warrants that kind of speculation. But now his sister is suing Dateline for $105 million, claiming that Dateline took over the role of police and didn't protect her brother.
"She said her brother was unable to defend himself when police, NBC employees and associates swarmed his yard, creating a relationship between NBC and her brother similar to the relationship a prison guard has with an inmate," the AP reported.
What a load of crap. This man was a public servant and he realized he'd been caught. This life-ruining crime was too much for this man to fess up to and he took the easiest way out.
Simple as that. Hopefully the jury will see this as another pointless lawsuit. After all $105 million will not bring this lady's brother back and it won't make him less of a perv.
* A note to readers: Soliciting sex from kiddies everywhere is wrong, not just on the internets.
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DEATH TO ALL SEXUAL PREDATORS. Except for my yearly fantasy football team, the Athens Sexual Predators. Or the ever-popular A-Town Battle Toads.
I read about that story too! I agree with you; the sister is out of line. Stupid lawsuit!
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