Got this from a lawyer site so it seems that it is illegal to have sexually explicit conversions with a minor. I doubt there is much of a punishment for it, and I assume the attempt to lure these guys to the house is to get them up on much greater charges.
What if the guy that tracked down was just acting out a fantasy? I came across this:
http://www.netaddiction.com/articles/eia_pedophilia_profile.htm
Down the page it talks about people who are just enacting a fantasy. Sure society isn't going to approve of people fantasing about minors, but is it worth the same punishment as actually turning up to have sex with one? Furthermore, how would he even know that the person is actually a minor? It's not unreasonable to assume that it may just be someone else fantasising about being a kid and having an adult take advantage of them.
I haven't seen the chats and I don't approve of what the guy likely did in the first place, but these people are clowns.
“In a quasi-related case during the serving of search and arrest warrants on those who did not arrive, Assistant District Attorney Louis W. Conradt Jr., of Rockwall County, Texas. was one of the individuals during the sting that solicited one of our decoys sexually,” the web site stated. “While he did not come to the sting house, his home along with others was served by search and arrest warrants...It is unfortunate that he chose this end rather than to have his day in court.”
Police forced their way into Conradt’s Terrell home after hearing a gunshot when he refused to answer the door, a police spokesman said. The officers found Conradt with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He later died at a hospital in Dallas, about 30 miles west of Terrell.
Police in the town of Murphy in nearby Collin County said Conradt had solicited sex from a decoy posing online as a 13-year-old. Murphy police were attempting to serve an arrest warrant and a search warrant for Conradt’s computer when he shot himself, Murphy Police spokesman Sgt. Snow Robertson said.
http://www.rockwallheraldbanner.com/local/local_story_312153636.html
Police forced their way into Conradt’s Terrell home after hearing a gunshot when he refused to answer the door, a police spokesman said. The officers found Conradt with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He later died at a hospital in Dallas, about 30 miles west of Terrell.
Police in the town of Murphy in nearby Collin County said Conradt had solicited sex from a decoy posing online as a 13-year-old. Murphy police were attempting to serve an arrest warrant and a search warrant for Conradt’s computer when he shot himself, Murphy Police spokesman Sgt. Snow Robertson said.
http://www.rockwallheraldbanner.com/local/local_story_312153636.html
Have you seen some of these turds online? They believe they are talking with a minor. They believe the person is 13, 14, or whatever. They have the intent to commit a crime when they knowingly talk about having sex with them or sending obscene pictures of themselves to them. It's not imaginary to them.
This is not some sexual fantasy site where you log in with other adults and pretend you're a minor, a nurse, whatever. These people are purposely looking for underage kids to have sex with, that's the difference.
They may well be looking for minors, but in truth they've (in these cases at least) only found another adult.
I guess I'm glad I don't have such imaginary fantasies, because it would suck to be imprisoned solely for the thoughts in my mind when no real human being of any age has been harmed.
I guess I'm glad I don't have such imaginary fantasies, because it would suck to be imprisoned solely for the thoughts in my mind when no real human being of any age has been harmed.
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