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Entrapment is illegal, and for good reason.
Entrapment is illegal, and for good reason.
Entrapment is illegal, and for good reason.
Entrapment is illegal, and for good reason.
From NBC News
He lures alleged child predators and shames them on Facebook. Now one of his targets is dead.
On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20, walked into a vacant two-story colonial house in Bristol, Connecticut. Two members of a local internet vigilante group — who regularly try to expose and shame alleged child predators they entice online — were waiting for him.
Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican immigrants, he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream. In high school, Malcolm was vice president of the Future Business Leaders of America club, assistant captain of the tennis and swim teams and a member of the student council and Model United Nations. He started a social marketing business at 15.
After graduating in 2016, Malcolm filled his Instagram and Facebook feeds with photos of New York high-rises, bathroom selfies in three-piece suits and links to news articles in which he was featured. He went to community college while working as a junior buyer for a local circuit-board manufacturer and was the subject of a Connecticut Public Television series that profiled recent high school graduates.
Earlier this year, he was named one of Litchfield County’s 40 Leaders Under 40.
COMMENT:-
Can we TRY to keep the discussion focused on THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR TACTICS?
I think that we can take it as a given that "child predators" are not the type of people we want to admire.
OK?
Analogies to lynchings are just BARELY within the scope of the discussion I would prefer to see.
If your target is 15 year old boy, can you really be considered a predator tho? I mean, I once had a fish jump in the boat when I wasn't even fishing. That's about how hard it is to convince a 15 year old male to have sex. You could literally just say the word sex, and give a 15 yo a boner.
To me a predator is someone who uses false pretenses to trick and coerce. IE I have candy little kid come with me. Or, if you want to be popular you will do this, or just a friend who waits til your guard is down or your drunk and has their way by force.
Asking someone, you wanna have sex, and them saying heck yeah. Isn't predatory, even when the kid's 15. Illegal? Yes. But not predatory. Especially when it comes to males. Teenage males are pretty much all one hormone burst away from the sex offenders list.
Interesting thoughts.
How much below 15 would you think it would have to be before it constituted "enticement"?
14?
13?
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1?
He went to have sex with a 14 year old, not knowing it was an anti-pedophile catfishing group. When informed what he had attempted to do online so others including his family would know, he later committed suicide.
So the purpose of this thread is that not only should pedophiles not be prosecuted, they should not even be publicly exposed because then they might hurt themselves?
Is that the point? How to protect pedophiles from being embarrassed over criminally sexually assaulting children?
From NBC News
He lures alleged child predators and shames them on Facebook. Now one of his targets is dead.
On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20, walked into a vacant two-story colonial house in Bristol, Connecticut. Two members of a local internet vigilante group — who regularly try to expose and shame alleged child predators they entice online — were waiting for him.
Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican immigrants, he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream. In high school, Malcolm was vice president of the Future Business Leaders of America club, assistant captain of the tennis and swim teams and a member of the student council and Model United Nations. He started a social marketing business at 15.
After graduating in 2016, Malcolm filled his Instagram and Facebook feeds with photos of New York high-rises, bathroom selfies in three-piece suits and links to news articles in which he was featured. He went to community college while working as a junior buyer for a local circuit-board manufacturer and was the subject of a Connecticut Public Television series that profiled recent high school graduates.
Earlier this year, he was named one of Litchfield County’s 40 Leaders Under 40.
COMMENT:-
Can we TRY to keep the discussion focused on THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR TACTICS?
I think that we can take it as a given that "child predators" are not the type of people we want to admire.
OK?
Analogies to lynchings are just BARELY within the scope of the discussion I would prefer to see.
Entrapment is illegal, and for good reason.
Let's see my grandmother was married off when she was 13 to 27 year old man, so let's go with 13. Because Christians swear up and down, they don't believe in child marriage. Yet the law that let my grandmother get married off that requires the approval of a judge, and a pastor, is still in effect in my home state.
So... Is that sufficient?
And my father was 15 when I was conceived, while my mom was 18. I was born when he was 16. And no one gave her **** for that...
Was he married to the 14 year old? Any reason you believe that he was?
I wonder how many of the child victims have committed suicide as results of the assaults they have suffered?
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