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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 06:05 PM Sep 2016

Fla. child sex sting nets 22 suspects, including Methodist pastor who volunteered in schools

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The men come from any number of backgrounds and range from young to old. In the end, Pensacola police said, they were united by a common goal: having sex with minors.

During a five-day stretch that ended Sunday, all 22 of the men — including a pastor from a Florida church — were dragged down by “Operation Undertow,” an Internet sting in which undercover agents lured suspected child predators via computer to an undisclosed Florida location, police said.

The men were snagged after they responded to ads for sex with teenage males and females created by agents on “various websites,” police said. Once the men initiated conversations with investigators, police said, warrants were issued for their arrest.

When the suspects showed up at the designated location, they were taken into custody and charged with traveling to meet after using a computer to lure a child. Police called the effort “the largest multi-jurisdictional Internet sting” since the department arrested 25 men during a one-week-long sting in 2011.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/09/16/fla-child-sex-sting-nets-22-men-including-youth-pastor-who-volunteered-in-schools/

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Fla. child sex sting nets 22 suspects, including Methodist pastor who volunteered in schools (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
I just don't get it... why? Agschmid Sep 2016 #1
Man I know you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover Egnever Sep 2016 #2
One of them has the textbook example of a pedostache. nt Codeine Sep 2016 #4
Burn the witch!!! Glassunion Sep 2016 #3
Would you mind elaborating? nt Codeine Sep 2016 #5
WHY do so many men want to fuck children Skittles Sep 2016 #6

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
1. I just don't get it... why?
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 06:10 PM
Sep 2016

What the hell are people thinking, how do they not know this isn't okay?

ETA: Be interesting to know how many of them were abused...

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
2. Man I know you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 07:35 PM
Sep 2016

But I would have pegged nearly every one of those folks as some sort of pervert.

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