[89558] in Cypherpunks
Re: [news] TV station sets cybersex sting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Nov 6 03:49:56 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:30:05 -0500
From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
>*** TV station sets cybersex sting
>With cyperporn and cybersex ranking as sensational news items on
>local TV stations, Fox's Los Angeles outlet has taken the trend a
>step further by ensnaring adult sexual predators. KTTV's Fox 11 News
>at 10 worked with a 21-year-old woman posing as a 14-year-old to
>conduct cybersting operations that led to the arrests of five men.
>KTTV used the unnamed woman as bait, having her enter online chat
>rooms where she was immediately targeted. The station filmed the
>online seductions as well as the arrests of the men, who included an
>attorney, a doctor, a retired Army officer and an investigator for
>the Dept. of Labor. See story at
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5777644-464
And then they tricked a real 14 year old girl into meeting with them and
having sex so that maybe, if they really, really tried very hard, they
could argue that a real crime had been committed, right?
Didn't think so.
