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TBA

(825 posts)
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 02:35 PM Nov 2017

Re: Roy Moore - Remember that show "To Catch a Predator" ?

Basically, they set up online stings where investigators posed as underage girls and the set up an arrangement to meet with the predators for various sexual reasons. They worked with local law enforcement and the predators were arrested.

I remember an interview with Chris Hansen the host and he said when they did the show they figured after a few times the offenders would catch on and quit falling for the trap and the show would fizzle. But no... they went to city after city after city and the supply of men willing to have sex with underage girls was endless. Men of all types, all professions, it went on and on.

It is no surprise that Moore's victims have more than one perp in their life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Predator

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Re: Roy Moore - Remember that show "To Catch a Predator" ? (Original Post) TBA Nov 2017 OP
Yeah it was very creepy. nycbos Nov 2017 #1
They also ran into a few repeat offenders after they had been doing it for a few years. rogue emissary Nov 2017 #2
I used to watch the show with a rather horrified... 3catwoman3 Nov 2017 #3
Sometimes more pervs showed up than they could handle JaneQPublic Nov 2017 #4
We need to use the term serial sexual predator, when discussing one of them. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2017 #5

3catwoman3

(24,133 posts)
3. I used to watch the show with a rather horrified...
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 02:50 PM
Nov 2017

...fascination. Creepy to the max.

And, if I may say so, besides being perverted pedophiles, what a bunch of complete LOSERS those guys were from an apearance point of view - beer bellies, bad teeth, poor grooming, and dressed like slobs in the standard wrinkled T-shirt or "wife-beater", over-long baggy shorts, white athletic socks, and sneakers.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
4. Sometimes more pervs showed up than they could handle
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 02:58 PM
Nov 2017

They were worried they'd run into each other and get wise. Plus, the cops waiting to arrest had to call for backup just to process all of them.

Very sad and very frightening.

Perhaps they should resurrect the show, with two locations: Hollywood and DC.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
5. We need to use the term serial sexual predator, when discussing one of them.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:13 PM
Nov 2017

Talk right over their avoidance language.

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