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OCNewbie said:
I didn't know it was against the law to "plan" to murder someone. What is the charge? I know it's against the law to solicit another person to commit murder though, which of course would be a murder planned but not yet carried out.
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Hey Perry Mason, it's called "conspiracy" to commit a crime..
 
I'm pretty sure they let the first season go without arrests and after that they arrested and prosecuted them. I'm also pretty sure the decoys were in fact underage. The ones hat led them into the room.
 
randomrogue said:
I'm pretty sure they let the first season go without arrests and after that they arrested and prosecuted them. I'm also pretty sure the decoys were in fact underage. The ones hat led them into the room.
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not all. in fact many were still from Perverted Justice. one showed the girl and she was 20+ and just sounded young.

ever notice that they walk in, the the girl is in another room and she would tell the guy to sit in the kitchen because she just got of the shower or whatever.
 
There was a write up of the ones that got prosecuted and the ones that didn't and I can't find it. IIRC the first season didn't even have the cops involved. After that they prosecuted them. I think there was a whole season though that they all got acquitted. They did this in different parts of the country and there are different laws. There used to be a pretty well organized write up about all this.
 
I want to see an episode involving a 16 year old boy chatting to have aex with a 16 year old girl.

It's not illegal, but would show the kid squirming as every sordid thing he said he wanted to read the girl was read. 'What would your mother say if she heard this?'

Then I'd like to see an episode of a gay adult interested in a gay adult, just to make the point that the sex 'sounds' disgusting to some viewers - helping illustrate bigotry.
 
purbeast0 said:
additionally, the decoys don't initiate the sexual conversations. <--- seen every episode about 10x
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False...

"Although Perverted-Justice volunteers wait for the suspect to initiate contact, former Dateline anchor Stone Phillips concedes that "... in many cases, the decoy is the first to bring up the subject of sex." Phillips defends this, saying that "... once the hook is baited, the fish jump and run with it like you wouldn't believe." -- To Catch a Predator

If you think they are showing you everything that goes on behind the scenes, you're really naive. I actually remember one episode where the decoy initiated the subject of sex, saying something like "So...do you like sex?" or "Are you experienced?" or something to that effect.
 
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tcsenter said:
False...

"Although Perverted-Justice volunteers wait for the suspect to initiate contact, former Dateline anchor Stone Phillips concedes that "... in many cases, the decoy is the first to bring up the subject of sex." Phillips defends this, saying that "... once the hook is baited, the fish jump and run with it like you wouldn't believe." -- To Catch a Predator

If you think they are showing you everything that goes on behind the scenes, you're really naive. I actually remember one episode where the decoy initiated the subject of sex, saying something like "So...do you like sex?" or "Are you experienced?" or something to that effect.
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I really don't care. Fish out people with judgement that poor. They always tell them they are the age of someone who clearly they should not be going to meet with.
 
Still they are ugly lonely dudes. And this chick is basically like 'hey come bang me, I totally want to get banged!". Totally willingly. A lot of girls are having sex by that age.

Not that I'm saying it's ok for them to show up. It's pretty screwed up. But man to have to register for a sex offender, go to jail, be humiliated on TV and your life ruined forever. For some chick asking for it. That's rough. A normal real girl would have just clicked off the window or stopped looking at him before he even jacked off and it would have been done and over. Not be like 'hey hot come bang me!'. It's not like they stalked, coerced, and lied for months. Then raped them or something.

Not that I agree with what they did. Just saying.
 
tcsenter said:
False...

"Although Perverted-Justice volunteers wait for the suspect to initiate contact, former Dateline anchor Stone Phillips concedes that "... in many cases, the decoy is the first to bring up the subject of sex." Phillips defends this, saying that "... once the hook is baited, the fish jump and run with it like you wouldn't believe." -- To Catch a Predator

If you think they are showing you everything that goes on behind the scenes, you're really naive. I actually remember one episode where the decoy initiated the subject of sex, saying something like "So...do you like sex?" or "Are you experienced?" or something to that effect.
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well if you read the rest of what you quoted, you will see that perverted justice claims that the decoy never does initiate it. so who really knows, it is one word against another, and all i know is that from what i've seen on the show they claim to never initiate the sex talk.

regardless, acting on it is 100% on the people who get busted and drive miles to meet the underage chick.
 
randomrogue said:
Thinking gay sex is disgusting is not bigotry.
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I'm not saying that's bigotry itself, I'm saying it will help show people how they bigotry can be increased by the double standards of how they feel about hearing a man's sex chat read when his talking about acts is for a woman versus a man. Some disgust is a normal reaction - but that leads many people then to feel it's ok to deny them equal rights for it.
 
sixone said:
Entrapment is when the cop offers to help the suspect commit a crime.

It's not entrapment when the predator is the one to suggest meeting.
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Not a cop but if a civilian or'private party bait you by committing a crime to match you committing a crime. Eg a reporter setting one up to traffic drugs
 
T9D said:
Still they are ugly lonely dudes. And this chick is basically like 'hey come bang me, I totally want to get banged!". Totally willingly. A lot of girls are having sex by that age.

Not that I'm saying it's ok for them to show up. It's pretty screwed up. But man to have to register for a sex offender, go to jail, be humiliated on TV and your life ruined forever. For some chick asking for it. That's rough. A normal real girl would have just clicked off the window or stopped looking at him before he even jacked off and it would have been done and over. Not be like 'hey hot come bang me!'. It's not like they stalked, coerced, and lied for months. Then raped them or something.

Not that I agree with what they did. Just saying.
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IIRC it was the perps who did the asking, all the setup had to do was to agree, she was a little hottie, they were probably drooling when they saw her (she's a VERY young looking 19) then they get Chris Hansen, oh FUCK NO!, one drove over 5 hours to get there...
 
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