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> So just to be clear, is it your belief that Craigslist personal ads are mostly written by children? The ad the convicted sex offender replied to was explicit

> So just to be clear, is it your belief that Craigslist personal ads are mostly written by children? The ad the convicted sex offender replied to was explicitly written by children, a fact that he was repeatedly made well aware and acknowledged during his arrest. > A person who says they met up with some girls from Craigslist before should be presumed to be voluntarily confessing that they have been meeting children? He replies to an ad posted by a 13 year old girl, and he was quite aware the underage girl he was trying to have sex with was indeed 13 years old.

shajznnckfke 6y ago
There was no age mentioned in the ad.
- rumanator 6y ago
  > There was no age mentioned in the ad. The underage girl featured in the ad repeatedly stated her age. When he replied to the ad, the convicted sex offender prompted her about her age and she made it quite clear to him that she was indeed a 13 year old girl. That fact didn't discouraged him from trying to have sex with the underage girl, and he proceeded to try to meet the underage girl with the express goal of having sex with her in mind, which ultimately led to his arrest.
saagarjha 6y ago
> The ad the convicted sex offender replied to was explicitly written by children No, it wasn’t, it was written by a police officer. > He replies to an ad posted by a 13 year old girl, and he was quite aware the underage girl he was trying to have sex with was indeed 13 years old. Did he not repeatedly explain why he thought the person he was talking to was not 13?
- rumanator 6y ago
  > No, it wasn’t, it was written by a police officer. The ad was posted by a police unit conducting a sting operations designed to catch child predators, and not only did the underage girl depicted in the ad stated repeatedly she was 13 years old but she also sounded like "an immature teenager". > Did he not repeatedly explain why he thought the person he was talking to was not 13? The convicted sex offender acknowledged he was fully aware the girl he tried to meet for sex was 13 years old.
  - fuzxi 6y ago
    >The convicted sex offender acknowledged he was fully aware the girl he tried to meet for sex was 13 years old. Did we read the same article? >>They pressed him on why he wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old. He answered, repeatedly, that he didn’t believe she was 13: Her picture didn’t look like she was 13; he thought she might be a grown woman engaging in role play; people online lie all the time, so he went to see for himself; when a woman who appeared to be in her 20s opened the door, he followed her inside for sex. >>“I do not believe that you came here to verify if this girl was 21,” the detective said. “You couldn’t help yourself.” >>“If she was 13, I was going to turn around and walk away,” Hambrick said.
    - Natsu 6y ago
      That's silly, though. If you meet someone claiming to be 13, you shouldn't meet up with them for sex whether or not they're lying. This is just an attempt to shut down the operations that catch pedos as a step towards normalizing it. Nobody is being fooled here.
      - commoner 6y ago
        > This is just an attempt to shut down the operations that catch pedos as a step towards normalizing it. No, this article exposes Net Nanny as an entrapment scheme that imprisoned a 20-year-old man for meeting a 24-year-old police officer. The ethics of Net Nanny are as questionable as the ethics of privately owned prisons, since Net Nanny focuses on maximizing convictions from situations it haphazardly creates, rather than solving real child sexual abuse cases.
        Natsu 6y ago
        That's not "entrapment" under the legal definition. This is like saying that bait cars don't help with car theft because nobody would've stolen the car if they knew it was a bait car.
        6y ago

shajznnckfke 6y ago

There was no age mentioned in the ad.

rumanator 6y ago
> There was no age mentioned in the ad. The underage girl featured in the ad repeatedly stated her age. When he replied to the ad, the convicted sex offender prompted her about her age and she made it quite clear to him that she was indeed a 13 year old girl. That fact didn't discouraged him from trying to have sex with the underage girl, and he proceeded to try to meet the underage girl with the express goal of having sex with her in mind, which ultimately led to his arrest.

saagarjha 6y ago

> The ad the convicted sex offender replied to was explicitly written by children No, it wasn’t, it was written by a police officer. > He replies to an ad posted by a 13 year old girl, and he was quite aware the underage girl he was trying to have sex with was indeed 13 years old. Did he not repeatedly explain why he thought the person he was talking to was not 13?

rumanator 6y ago
> No, it wasn’t, it was written by a police officer. The ad was posted by a police unit conducting a sting operations designed to catch child predators, and not only did the underage girl depicted in the ad stated repeatedly she was 13 years old but she also sounded like "an immature teenager". > Did he not repeatedly explain why he thought the person he was talking to was not 13? The convicted sex offender acknowledged he was fully aware the girl he tried to meet for sex was 13 years old.
- fuzxi 6y ago
  >The convicted sex offender acknowledged he was fully aware the girl he tried to meet for sex was 13 years old. Did we read the same article? >>They pressed him on why he wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old. He answered, repeatedly, that he didn’t believe she was 13: Her picture didn’t look like she was 13; he thought she might be a grown woman engaging in role play; people online lie all the time, so he went to see for himself; when a woman who appeared to be in her 20s opened the door, he followed her inside for sex. >>“I do not believe that you came here to verify if this girl was 21,” the detective said. “You couldn’t help yourself.” >>“If she was 13, I was going to turn around and walk away,” Hambrick said.
  - Natsu 6y ago
    That's silly, though. If you meet someone claiming to be 13, you shouldn't meet up with them for sex whether or not they're lying. This is just an attempt to shut down the operations that catch pedos as a step towards normalizing it. Nobody is being fooled here.
    - commoner 6y ago
      > This is just an attempt to shut down the operations that catch pedos as a step towards normalizing it. No, this article exposes Net Nanny as an entrapment scheme that imprisoned a 20-year-old man for meeting a 24-year-old police officer. The ethics of Net Nanny are as questionable as the ethics of privately owned prisons, since Net Nanny focuses on maximizing convictions from situations it haphazardly creates, rather than solving real child sexual abuse cases.
      - Natsu 6y ago
        That's not "entrapment" under the legal definition. This is like saying that bait cars don't help with car theft because nobody would've stolen the car if they knew it was a bait car.
        6y ago