To Catch A Predator

[Ladyzekke]

Has anyone seen this show on Dateline NBC? They catch pedophiles who go on the internet prowling for kids. Dateline have people who pretend to be children online who eventually invite these pedophiles to "their house" which is really rigged with cameramen and police. Dateline uses this woman who is 20 but looks 12! that answers the door when they show up. She excuses herself pretty quickly though and the Host of the show comes in, and he's got all the internet transcripts of their chats he reads outloud. Eventually all the cameramen come out of their niches and surround the creep. It's really amazing how many pedophiles they have gotten this way, there are so many out there I guess.

The show is fun to watch though because the looks on their faces when they get busted on national tv (the cops arrest them when they leave the house) is really satisfying. Oh, and one sicko showed up to the house naked!

Anyway, they have a new one on tonight (8:00pm)!

[Albromor]

What is really frightening is how prevelent pedos are.

[Ladyzekke]

Man, last night's show had a few guys who almost touched the decoy they were so eager.

Here's a link with a lot of videos of the show if anyone's interested:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912603/

[Mack_Attack]

I have seen this also. Seems a little shocking. But there is so many sickos out there.

[Mack_Attack]

I was looking through the guide for tonight looks like it is on tonight on dateline at 9. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Ladyzekke]

Yes I watched it tonight Mack. They briefly touched on the district attorney in Texas that committed suicide because he got caught chatting online with one of the decoys. Thing is, the way he apparently encrypted everything on his PC, he was obviously hiding something else, so will be interesting to find out what that is in the future if they are able to get that info. It DOES seem odd to me he'd kill himself over it all, when they show predators coming back AGAIN and getting caught on the show, like there is no real consequences to it all. That says to me they aren't keeping these predators they bust in jail for long. Yeah we get to see em thrown down on the ground by cops and tossed in a police car, but it must not be that bad if some of them keep repeating.

It's disturbing how some of them can be caught on camera and just casually hang out, drink the beverages available, eat some of the snacks about, like they are at a party and not on camera being busted for being a frikken pedophile!

[Mack_Attack]

I agree that computer holds alot of things. Iam sure that we will be shocked when exposed. If it gets exposed.

Man there was wack jobs on there tonight.