Police are cautioning the public against conducting private “stings” after a group of people posing as minors online allegedly tried to arrange an in-person meeting with a man in Teaneck.
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Kriegel used the case to caution the public against conducting private “stings,” saying they can interfere with active investigations, compromise evidence and create legal complications that jeopardize prosecutions. The stings can also put suspects and bystanders at risk, the police chief said.
Anyone who suspects a child is being targeted for exploitation should contact law enforcement directly rather than attempting a confrontation, he added.
If someone was soliciting and talking sexual to your kid wouldn’t you either tell the person to leave your kid alone or turn in the conversations to the cops. People believe that they have a Doctorate in Keyboard Warrior with opinions making the Mississippi look straight doesn’t mean they should set up their own stings for views. All of this would have been avoided if the government didn’t have laws based on fear from horrific rare cases with the help of frightening and high from the Supreme Court. Congrats morons you have failed and all this sh*t lies at your feet. Chief Justice Roberts you are the biggest loser and your membership of that club is frightening and high.
Translation: “Please don’t upstage us, we want to take ALL the credit for this.”
Today, everything is so fake and for show, I wouldn’t be surprised if the ones running this channel are the predators. Youtube creates a strong financial incentive to maximize watch time, so the more lurid and despicable the villain, the better.
Take, for example, the chat sequence. Those were fake chat transcripts (to keep the video script flowing) so who knows what was really said. You just don’t know.
Then with the actual encounter, we have no video of the man actually saying anything incriminating before they swoop in, so we have no real confession from the person on video and no confirmation that the man really knew he was dealing with an underage person.
Lastly, what app or website was the guy on? A meetup site for adults only? We aren’t given that information. More likely it was than it wasn’t. I don’t condone casual sex, and here is one more reason why, but why troll for predators on adult hookup sites? What problem is that trying to solve? Roblox has BIG, REAL issues, so why aren’t these guys out there posing as kids? Probably because they would get into legal trouble themselves.
This whole thing stinks and doesn’t serve the cause of justice one bit. It’s all just a sick, twisted form of entertainment for sick, twisted minds.
One of these days, someone looking for someone to cross the line is going to get met with more than they can handle when one group meets another and it will be a gangland style beat down if they are not careful. People will be tired of people portraying minors and want to lay down a message.
They met on the Badoo app. 18+ It’s in the video. See pic.
Also, they broke the terms of the app… impersonating a person…