Florida’s 2nd DCA says Police Sting entrapped Defendant
Jason DeMare went on an ADULT website and initiated contact with AN ADULT. For days, they chatted and flirted while he believed the woman was 18, but on the fourth day she told him she was 14. She was neither 14 nor 18 and she was not a flirty female but an undercover officer. Each time DeMare tried to steer the conversation away from sex, the officer tried to steer it back. Each time he said he was not interested in a sexual relationship with a minor, the officer kept cajoling him and calling him chicken.
Sound familiar? It’s pretty much the playbook for these “stings”/”scams” run by Florida police departments. When I first heard some members tell me this story, I thought “yeah right”, but when I heard the same story over, and over, and over and read the transcripts in Trey Gennette’s case, I couldn’t believe law enforcement would get away with this and just how often they used these tactics to bait and switch someone into a manufactured felony.
When I asked why they took the plea? it was always because they were threatened with decades in prison if they didn’t.
There have been a few brave souls who put their foot down and took their chances in court. One such brave soul is DeMare. You can read his decision here:
If your situation is similar… maybe we should coordinate victims of these scams and expose the law enforcement “stings” that entrapped them?
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Is there any chance that FAC could help a subgroup on here that the sting victims could join to share info and their stories. I would love to investigate potetention class action against the state and police agencycies
Wow! Good for him!! That’s a great case.
What about this new registry for misconduct of officers that the Democrats passed as a result of the recent riots over police misconduct? “If” Trump doesn’t veto it, could we put cops who have proven to have legally entrapped people on The let so it could be used in future cases?
Mine was in lake city, it was with a 34 year old woman on Craig’s list intimate encounters.public defender without seeing my case told me he wasnt gonna help me cause he didnt like my case and cases like mine. He would tell my family to do things to clear my name to keep them busy and refuse to use it when they got the information he needed. He lied to them and told them my case wasnt until a certain time in court which was a couple hours after it so they couldnt talk to me and provide info to make me look worse with nobody there for me. Asked question while in court he told me to shut up and repeat everything he told me to say and kept telling me I’ll get 35 years if I dont agree. No nude images was sent,never asked for any,1 comment in general to the woman I was talking to. No other sex talk. Told detectives emails they showed me I didnt see before but they told me to sign each page anyways. It’s all a scam to make easy money. I guess building a new court house.maybe one day we the people will get fair treatment and the government will be held accountable for it’s illegal actions. And adult only sex site looking for older women.
Agree with the easy money thing – my husband is a seriously disabled person who has a lot of trouble walking fromm artery surgeries and congestive heart failure – when we learned of the requirement to register due to an old case it was news to us – will not go into details but a case where it was all about getting mitts on money – he had passed a lie detector test still found guilty did probation and thought that was the end of it all – its all disgusting the extrees people will go to for money. Since he has been required to register I hear the reports of how he is badgered with the same questions over and over again – he has over heard conversations where apparantly persons working for sex offender registry unit are getting bonuses if they find person not where they are supposed to be – I don’t go anymore because gave up car and have had a lot of trouble with theives trying to get into financial accounts where we are stuck living so one of us has to be home – nothig doe about the theives and actually one time I called police about wallet disappeared I got a copy of the police report and it was not accurate information recorded – since I got rid of the car he is badgered about that – I get constant phone calls re: insurance on my car and after the things I read considered that it might be the unit trying an entrapment – anyway, when my husband once asked them why they kept badgerig hi with same questions the response he got was that they wanted “them” all in jail. Pathetic with the stories I have heard from others about underage girls that became involved with older men and then when the men wanted to break up with them they cried wolf to make the man’s life miserable – know of another one in trouble with law because his co-habiter accused him of holding her prisoner but he worked regularly and she could have left anytime she wanted to when he was working – she didn’t have a problem taking trash to the dumpster – the real issue was that he had gotten a raise and he was trying to save money but she couldn’t get hi to give her what she wanted – Marion County is full of such people . On another note – since the same prison they stick arrested people in is the available emergency shelter for offenders for Hurricanes, etc. I had called to see what accommadations they would make for a man on a multitude of medications for the heart failure and diabetes and on restricted diet – told have to bring his own food – get that one – when my primary duty as wife has been to make sure he eats what he can – not easy stuck living in a motel – irony being as an older woman with my own disabilities physically with walking I have to constantly be worried about my safety with all the hyped up on drug types I am surrounded by – think the crainess all needs to be exposed
I mean, anyone can be a child predator. I expect most child predators probably like adults as well and would visit these chat rooms more than just an “average” person would.
But these stings, I don’t know what I think about them. If they are done legitimately, e.g. the law enforcement criminals (LECs) don’t entrap people, I don’t think I have much of a problem with them. Are these stings useful? Maybe. But surely very little. I fully expect that the most skilled child predators would never, ever, ever just start talking to a random person in a chat room. So the people that these LECs are catching are not actually any people we actually need to worry about. I expect of the people who are caught like this, that a good 99.999% of them are not dangerous at all to a good parent actually being a responsible parent and protecting their children.
But really, I doubt these stings have very much to do with preventing child abuse. I think, like a lot of things, they have a lot more to do with just making LECs feel a little bit better about themselves. I think most LECs need their egos stroked on a regular basis. I believe most of them have low self-esteem. Pretending to care about children and child abuse, more than just any normal person does, makes them feel better. It improves their fragile self-image. I really do think that is THE KEY motivation behind nearly all of these stings and “save children” organizations.
The other motivation is $$$, of course. LECs are constantly trying to drag new customers into their big government incarceration business. They love getting new customers in, that they can keep involved and coming back for decades. The Registry Hit Lists help them perfectly with that. The incarceration business is the real reason for stings and the Hit Lists.
Similar situation happened to me. Lawyers merely took my money. Even though I told my lawyers that the chats would show entrapment, not one of them were able to get the chat logs. I’m doing podcasts on issues like this if anyone is interested in getting their stories heard. Anonymously of course. Contact me at [email protected]