Sgt. Teri Schroeder, I-Safe: If you could actually look through cyber glasses and see whos peering in your window, whos in your daughters room, whos reading your daughters blog, whos cyber-stalking your son.it is reality and the fact is weve become very ignorant to those types of things because we cant see it.. By August of that year, only one segment had been shot, compared to seven the previous year. You never really know what goes on in someones bedroom. leejo1979, Yes, Matty Nash. This week, he pleaded not guilty like all the other Florida men who entered pleas so far. The decoy gives a series of verbal commands to Patterson to prove that he is unarmed, and he does so without suspecting a thing. 12:51, 28 FEB 2023. Schumacher: All I got to say is there aint not going on here dude. Is Your Anxiety Sabotaging YourRelationship? When he was 38 years old, Wehry began dating a 25-year-old woman inhis bible study group. One suspect dropped a bag of crack, Whorton said. He stated that he heard John Pederson was in the area and decided to pay him a visit. Jean Pierre Wehry: had previous convictions of assault with a firearm (as a youth), rape, and failure to register as a sex offender. Height I was getting suspicious of the guy and reverse searched his phone number. CBS News' Brian Montopoli accused the segment of being interested in nothing more than ratings, arguing it didn't operate with enough journalistic integrity, and made the news rather than reporting it. Eric Chase, a defense attorney specializing in sex crimes, said stings are the job of police, not TV crews. Miles from any major city, down long country roads, past corn fields and cow pastures, Dateline set up this house in Rural Ohio. He said you up for that? Bodnar was convicted of sodomy and later sentenced to 10 years in prison. Is that accurate?Lakhan: Yes. After his ouster, Hansen came up with a plan to bring back To Catch a Predator. Hes a man in a position of trust: 24- year-old Ryan Hogan, screenname ryan4686, a New York City firefighter. After chuckling at hearing some of his chat log lines, he is let go by Hansen, only to come face to face with a group of police officers (who are advised by their superiors to act more swiftly than usual due to the earlier suspicion of him being potentially armed). 20 years later or so I see him at a rink. My dad told me this story years later, right after another strange incident, when he and I were on a train and when we got off he had us duck around a lot of people and pillars. I was SHOCKED when I saw the episode. Its just their attitude is: doesnt happen in my house. He is the only tased predator to withstand the taser shot before being taken down. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin). Youre not.Hansen: So whats going to be happening if Im not here? 27 Jul 02:32 AM. Rutherford said that when he goes online he doesnt specifically look for underage teens but since our broadcast, we learned Rutherford was chatting with someone else in addition to Perverted-Justice. After spending hours engaged in a sexually explicit chat - sometimes from the firehouse, he makes a plan to come over to have sex with our fourteen year old. Seibert is the first double-predator in \"To Catch a Predator\" show history. BREAKING:Eli Lilly caps the cost of insulin at $35 a month. Yeah turns out he was molesting at least 2 girls from there (4 and 8) and hosting a child porn ring from the centers server. And please sit in that stool. My dad pulled my brother and I from a fancy expensive elementary school and put us in public school despite him really wanting us in a private school. And as youll see, some seem prepared to do things that Fort Myers, Florida Police Chief Hilton Daniels finds quite alarming. As for the rest of the cases, he said neither police nor NBC could guarantee the chat logs were authentic and complete. He showed how to performoral sex to a 12-year-old girl while detained with other minors. Some other suspects contacted Perverted Justice decoys online but never showed up at the house. There arent necessarily signs you would see that would tip you off that your co-worker or neighbor or acquaintance is interested in underage girls. Moonlightonthelake80. Across several countries, ever-growing societal alarm about the threat of online child sexual exploitation has provoked a controversial civic response: volunteer pedophile hunting teams that expose predators in livestreamed confrontations. Chris Hansen, Dateline correspondent: So merely by using the Internet to set up a sexual liaison with somebody whos underage, thats a felony?Lt. Divorced Weight Some of Dateline's advertisers expressed misgivings about continuing to support the segment, and as a result, NBC started scaling back production. This is a family community. Just really glad I never met up with him. Schroeder: I think parents have known that this has been around. He wound up driving away from the decoy house and was arrested nearby. "There isn't a bigger, more respected name in crime reporting than Chris Hansen. My friend dated someone who ended up disappearing, then we eventually found out he had been arrested for trying to sleep with an under age girl and having rope and guns in his trunk. Teens need to know that more than just their friends are reading what they post. Coincidentally, when he drives by, he sees a police car parked near the house and has a possible burst of conscience. I've Got A Surprise For You! To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series that features hidden camera investigations by the television news magazine program Dateline NBC. I felt really bad for her. wolfeybutt, Im pretty late to the game, but my husband worked with/good friends with one of the men on the first ever episode. Most headed for the door. Hes charged with attempting a lewd act with a child under 14. I dont want to get involved in the DAs business or the police business, he said. People were lured to meet with a decoy under the pretense of sexual contact and then . After seeing our story, the officer was able to identify him. Hansen: Why dont you have a seat right there, please.? Middle aged geeky dude, had 2 daughters (I was 18, my sibling 20 at the time of arrest), bit socially awkward but known as a really kind guy. [1], In November 2010, Wehry filed an appeal challenging two of his charges due to insufficient evidence. State investigators found pornography among Conradt's possessions some of it involving minors as well as "evidence of graphic online chats.". Just wait you gotta be a little patient.Hansen: Actually I want you to come here.Rutherford: Thats what I thought. When he was eleven years old, he was molested by a 15-year-old boy. The police contact the boys mother at work, tell her whats going on and she comes and gets him. No matter where we went we heard the same old story Chris Hansen, Dateline correspondent (hidden camera footage): What are you doing here?Kurt Lemke: Just hanging out.Hansen: Hanging out? I-Safe travels the country warning parents and teens how not to become a victim of computer predators. He said secrecy was necessary for the sting to be effective. Aliases Police officer: You brought Viagra, you brought lubricants? Schroeder: It informs them, gives them tips that they could actually, you know, be thinking about themselves and then actually helps them in terms of how they would apply this in terms of their own real life or even within their own house. NBC Universal, Inc. is liable for violating the "Journalistic Code of Ethics.". Always wanted to buy booze for us or roll up a joint and smoke us out in his van. He was sexually molested and abused by his stepfather when he was a young child. What do you do for a living?Kaye: Im a rabbi. Decoy: Hey come on in! Both at the job and with the women. When we told them. I was on a dating website and was talking to a guy that claimed to be a doctor. He said that in 16 of the cases, he had no jurisdiction, since neither the suspects nor the decoys were in the county during the online chats. In 2002, he led police on a high speed chase in a stolen car. Hes a special education teacher looking to meet a 13-year-old boy. Wehry claimed that there was insufficient evidence of his intent to commit more than one count attempted lewd act on a child, and that his conviction on two counts ofattempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of ageviolated his Fifth Amendment rightunder the United States Constitution. What are you doing here?David Kaye: Not something good. Thats why we started Creepy Catalog in 2015 as a place for creepy content and creepy people to congregate. I built a google sheet in the birthdays thread. He left and started working as a prostitute after being accused of stealing. Anyway, we go our separate ways but do exchange phone numbers. FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. -- Todd Spikes, a 44-year-old former Florala, Ala., police officer arrested in 2006 during a "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" sting in Flagler Beach was sentenced Tuesday. So, I didnt know him on a personal level, but I did talk to him on a regular basis. Holding his sons hand, the 40-year-old walks into the house. Unbeknownst to the teacher, he was on line with a Carmel, Indiana police officer posing as a 13-year-old. He resigned his post with that Jewish organization the day before our story aired. Unbelievably, we learn even more about Westerbecks criminal past: rape of a little girlpart of his extended family. Yet it happened again and again. The mans name is John Kennelly hes 43 and his father says unemployed. State law claims for intentional disclosure of private facts, intrusion on the right to be left alone, harassment/intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence. I said cool. Hes charged with attempted lewd and lascivious battery, using the computer to solicit sex with a minor, and transmitting material harmful to a minor. And this was not his only encounter with the law. The rest of his conviction was affirmed. There was nothing that stood out to me as creepy or off. Dateline touched a major nerveexposing an epidemic of sexual predators in our country. On April 15, 2015, he launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a web series called Hansen vs. Bianco, with the Riverside County Sheriffs Department and a Perverted-Justice volunteer screenname Frag devised a plan. Paroled Sept. 23, 2010. From forgotten stories surrounding the production to all the ups and downs experienced by Hansen and his signature series in more recent years, this is the untold truth of To Catch a Predator. We were starting first and third grade (had done kindergarten and second grade there) and then switched to a new school. http://www.nbc-2.com/story/10690344/notorious-predator-gets-stiff-sentence Last year, he pleaded guilty to using the internet to transmit obscene material to a person under 16. All pleaded not guilty, except Alonzo Wade, who plead no contest. Michael Joseph Patterson, otherwise known as jon_raven2000 was a predator caught in the Bowling Green, Kentucky installment of To Catch a Predator. Parents, children, and members of society in general need to be aware of the red flags that are depicted here. This isnt good.Hansen: Not good? The most famous man to be featured on To Catch a Predator was Lorne Armstrong, who became the subject of The Church of Cawd. Wehry then changed his story again, claiming that he saw construction while walking to his house. Sgt. Thats kind of an understatement, isnt it? Not all the perps collared by To Catch a Predator have been given the punishment they might seem to deserve. As the investigation progressed, volunteers from Perverted-Justice, the group dedicated to catching Internet predators were busy as ever chatting online with men like va_male692005., Hes 28, talking to our decoy Erin, who says shes a 14-year-old. When I told him I didnt think that was a good idea because I had a 10 year old kid at the time he said I should bring my kid. Have a cookie, I made them because theyll go with the cool-whip. The next day hes brought before a judge and bail is set. Unlike our previous hidden camera operationswhere after leaving the house some men were able to make a run for itthis time at our home in Southern California,things would be different. I made the judgment call to correct that mistake.Hansen: Is there anything else you want to say about thisHogan: Yeah, I think ah, people ought to use their heads, people should know better, um, I made a mistake. On June 11, 2008, Patterson was convicted of Traveling In Interstate Commerce For The Purpose Of Engaging In A Sexual Act With A Minor. In Virginia, as in many other states, its generally a crime to send children sexually explicit material - even if it turns out the recipient is an adult posing as a child. His online chat is not as sexually explicit as the others. But we never thought hed really do it, but he did that and even more. By 2008, the lawsuit was "amicably resolved" in a confidential settlement. Its not going to happen to my son or daughter.. NBC Universal, Inc.'s "libel, slander and defamatory statements" have caused him mental and emotional stress and ruined his reputation. He never makes it. From what I can remember of him was that he was quiet and kept to himself. He is notorious for frequently licking his lips and having an adamant dedication to the lie he was feeding Chris Hansen. Robb said he showed up to let the 13 year old girl know he wasnt going to be able to hang out after making the 2 hour drive there. And we certainly never expected to see naked guys, which we did not once, but twice. There were zero signs he would do something like that. He wasnt. Anyone in the business of rooting out illegal behavior runs the risk of occasionally being accused of entrapment, and To Catch a Predator is no different. Did you bring condoms?Bailon: Yes, sir.Hansen: You did? In 1999, he was convicted of oral copulation with a person under the age of 16. 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