I’ll have ask my sister in law if there’s any updated research on sexual offenses. Being a Criminologist/Sociologist/Researcher/ and Professor I’m sure she can point me in the right direction.

rpsabq

Your story contains one flaw. AOL not only exists, I am using it right now. I have been an AOL member since 1985. Maybe you meant AOL chat or rooms don’t exist anymore. My Mom and Dad still have AOL accounts as well.
Verizon bought out AOL but kept the name. I log into my AOL every day and have it registered with the Gestapo as required by the registry.

The charge is called “Computer Pornography” which I’ve sense realized is totally on purpose. Always fair when the title of the crime under which i was convicted is actually worse than the crime itself.

Further my situation only became a crime due to a specific feature to AOL online chat system. I was in a room called WPBM4M (that’s men for men, btw). AOL of course doesn’t even exit today. When I was first arrested I truly felt that it would soon be realized this is all a big misunderstanding. WRONG! I was a pedophilic monster lurky the internet for kids and that was the end of it!!

22 years and it still feels like the Twilight Zone…..

Sidney

Thank you for your service to the community. I was in law enforcement for a while as well. If you are a decent person, you saw things that really bothered you. I could no longer take the abuse of people like homeless that got their teeth knocked out because they were sleeping on a park bench. One particular guy was a decorated Marine in Vietnam.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is, former cops who have a relative on the registry would make great speakers in front of the legislators concerning the pathetic retro actively punishment placed on ex offenders on the registry.

I cannot do it myself because an ex cop on the registry would fall on deaf ears. But someone who was in law enforcement and has a relative on the registry would make a great impact even if just one person “Got it”.

The emphasis on human trafficking is the current political bandwagon, which I fully support if the data are real. Do we actually know the extent of this problem, or is there manipulation of these data as well?

Veritas (if that is possible).

It is much easier to create a crime than it is to look for someone who actually broke the law. That is why they do it. Then they can ask the Justice Department for grants to fund the victimless crimes. The more arrest the more money. My son didn’t make a call to talk to the , so called, under age girl the male office called him. That should have thrown the case out but it was never brought up. I had been an officer in Jacksonville, Fl at one time and it took me three years before I understood how they trapped my son. By then it was too late. I have been saying if FAC and other groups would work together on the stings it would be like an house of cards. Showing how stings trap people would destroy all the other sex related issues like registry where you can live etc.

Actually, yes, there are a few. I met a woman about 3 or so yrs ago who was 23 at the time and told me she’d been on and off the adult dating apps since she was 15.
Although you have to be 18+ to use the apps, you don’t have to PROVE your age. You just simply tick a box that says you have read the TOS rules. Anyone can do that.

I’ve never in my entire teen to adult life agreed with cops posing as drug DEALERS to catch the BUYERS. The buyers have an addiction that needs treatment. That tactic was a waste of resources. I can, however, agree with posing as the BUYER to catch the DEALER in order to stop the flow of narcotics.

But what they’re doing online is not even to be compared to undercover drug stings. Online, they are using ADULT DATING APPS to entrap men whose INITIAL INTENTIONS were to seek out other ADULTS for dating or what have you.

Dr. phil is as useless as John Walsh, Nancy Grace, and Oprah are when it comes to solving crime. A bunch of hot air and that’s all.