Suing because your family member, who was an child molester btw made suicide because he was caught, where is the logic in that? They just want the money, nothing else.....those money hungry idiots

UH, Do you realize that there is no proof that a molesting took place? They find them into chat rooms then pester them to come to the house. PESTER! The guy was just talking then the adult acting like a kid pesters him into coming to the trap. serious problems here

1 Why would a 13 year old go to a PEDO CHAT AND NOT LEAVE IMEDITLY?

2 No genital to genital took place. Talking is not a crime.

3 I would much rather these people stay on the net and RP with retarded 13 or other actors than go out and do it.

4 Once Dateline has you they won't let you leave. THATS FALSE IMPRISONMENT

They should be kicked off the air. No questions

How does Perverted Justice get these guys in the first place? The decoys are ALWAYS over 18. Does perverted justice send a picture of the decoy during the chats? Do they send a picture prior to initiating sexual conversation? If so, then the guy chatting is looking at an 18 year old who they are attracted to. If not, then they're attracted primarily to the fact that they're supposed so young, which is a little weird. But even assuming the picture is someone younger... 16 for example, does that make it wrong?

I read an excellent article on slate a couple months back about the whole 18-year-old cutoff and how it really is a dirty trick on human impulses. Most girls (women?) start to mature around 14-16. So let's say you have a 16 year old with a fully developed, woman's body. Is it really that wrong to be attracted to her, even though she's technically underage?

But that's just taking into account physical maturity. What about mental maturity? Well, if you look how long it takes for someone to reach mental maturity, although it's not an exact science, most experts agree that most people start really becoming "mature" in their mid-to-late 20's. So should we make the age of consent 25? On a biological timeline, 18 years old is an arbitrary figure as it gets.

We're not talking about guys who are trying to have sex with 8 year olds here. I doubt anyone would argue that that's not sick. But Dateline quite intentionally operates in a biological grey area where our heads haven't quite caught up to our bodies.