GnuGuy wrote:
> Groups trimmed again (I fail to understand why the groups
> keep getting added on. I did not cross post.)
>
> "bobandcarole" <bobandcarole111@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:1146301583.009535.7570@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:
>
> >
> > GnuGuy wrote:
> >> Groups trimmed. groups added
> >>
> >> "bobandcarole" <bobandcarole812@webtv.net> wrote in
> >> news:1146165826.209066.155700@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Predators Lurking Online -- Catching Them Before They Strike
> >> > 4/25/2006
> >> >
> >> > The danger on the internet is real for a generation of children
> >> > whose social lives can be just as active online as off. The
> >> > National Center for Missing and Exploited Children estimates that
> >> > in 2005 one out of five children was solicited online by an adult.
> >> >
> >> > The war against online predators has begun in many law enforcement
> >> > agencies around the country. Cops have set up stings to arrest
> >> > suspects trying to meet underage kids for sexual encounters. All
> >> > suspects will have their day in court -- and if convicted, become
> >> > registered sex offenders.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> It is quite peculiar that these men have been arrested for
> >> committing no crime.
> >>
> >> Did they solicit sex from a minor?
> >> Did they have sex with a minor?
> >> Did they engage in improper language or touching with
> >> a minor?
> >>
> >> No, it was an adult police officer pretending to be a minor.
> >
> > That's right...surprise surprise LOL
> >>
> >> They may have *thought* that's what they were doing, but
> >> thought is not a crime. Is it?
> >
> > Attempting to seduce a child via the internet is a Felony...
> > They play, they PAY....
>
> <snip>
>
> If a man grabs a "nerf bat" (an object made of very soft
> material) and strikes someone with it, does that constitute
> attempted homicide?
>
> It wouldn't even qualify as "assault with a deadly weapon."
>
>
> It is being assumed (perhaps correctly) that the people who
> show up for "sex" will actually engage in it. Consider the
> cases of "murder for hire" where the person hiring the
> killer changes their mind before they actually go through
> with it. It is no longer murder for hire since the act
> could not have been completed.
>
> Is it even "attempted murder for hire"? Not if the deal
> is cancelled before it is done. Murder for hire convictions
> rely on a "point of no return." When the deal has been
> made, and the people making the deal split with no means
> of contacting one another, then even if the person has
> "second thoughts" there is no way to undo it. It is
> a "done deal."
>
> By analogy, the "point of no return" in these cases involves
> showing up at the agreed upon place to engage in sex. We
> still cannot truly know if there may be a crisis of conscience
> that might prevent a sexual act from occurring. By ignoring
> this possibility, this is equivalent to equating "stalking"
> with "rape" or "murder." While there may be intent, means
> and opportunity, there is no specific action that constitutes
> either rape or murder.
>
> While there may be a definable crime, "attempted seduction
> of a child" is not it with no child to seduce and no
> interaction with any children on anyone's part.
>
> While I'm sure that they have done their best to recreate
> the circumstances that would be involved in "internet
> seduction", they can't exactly reproduce what a child
> would say. The entire conversation that leads to
> a "meeting" is then the result of a distortion of what
> a child *might* say, but possibly never would. Adults
> can be much more seductive and "agreeable" than a child,
irrelevant, they think they are seducing a child and they pay...period
> because they know they have nothing to lose and much
> to gain (such as a good arrest record, a feeling of
> satisfaction, etc.). This type of attitude will color
> the interaction between the pretend child and the adult
> they are trying to seduce (and who, exactly, is seducing
> who?).
>
> GnuGuy
Attempting to have sex with a child via the internet is a Class A
Felony.
Sending perverted self pics to a child via the internet is a Class A
Felony
You play, you PAY....
THAT'S the law.......
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