Must Watch: Grady Judd Gets Called Out for His Phony Sex Offender Stings on John Oliver
For more than a dozen years, the Florida Action Committee has been sounding the alarm about the tactics used in certain sex offender sting operations. Now, that message is reaching a national audience. In a recent segment on Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver takes a closer look at the controversial practices of Grady Judd, Sheriff of Polk County, highlighting concerns that closely mirror what FAC has been reporting for years.
The segment raises serious questions about whether some of these operations cross the line into entrapment — situations where individuals may be baited, induced, or pressured into conduct they were not otherwise predisposed to commit. It’s a troubling thought, especially when considering the lifelong consequences that follow, including placement on the registry.
FAC has long questioned how many hundreds (if not thousands) of people have been caught up in these unethical tactics. Individuals who, but for the nature of these operations, would never have engaged in such behavior at all. Now that this issue is being examined on a national stage, the conversation is expanding. We encourage everyone to watch this segment and see for themselves. Send this link to your lawmakers. Send an email to the show’s press contact, [email protected] thanking them for exposing this injustice. And share this post with others. The more people who understand what is REALLY happening, the stronger the call for meaningful reform becomes.
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The sheriff clearly thinks he’s a comedian—what a joke.
As for Miss Stacey, my heart goes out to her for the trauma she endured for so many years. It’s a tragic reminder that the real threats often aren’t the names on a public registry, but the people closest to us.”
Way, WAYYYYYYYY back in 2010, Shady Grady arrested a man who wrote what he claimed was an alleged “how-to” book on committing abuse (that’s debatable). The man lived in Colorado & wrote a book that wasn’t selling until online vigilantes started a media frenzy over it.
https://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/20/florida.obscenity.arrest/
In 2011 Phillip Greaves pleaded no contest to selling his book titled “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct.” Did anyone here buy the book?
No.
I’ve never even seen a copy of the book and never knew it existed before all the hoopla. The internet blew it up.
If I recall, it sold only like three copies until the media frenzy hit, then it sold thousands of copies after it made rounds on the Internet. At first Amazon said it was free speech anfd they’d keep selling it but bowed out to public pressure.
I have no idea if it was really what the media claimed it is. I doubt Shady Grady read it; he probably just wanted to jump in on the 15 minutes of fame.
It is also easy to say Graves should’ve fought it but after being falsely accused of a Florida offense, I can tell you it is stressful to be kidnapped and trafficked across state lines to be held for ransom in such a terrible state.
Add this to the hundreds of instances of questionable if not downright malicious false arrests by Judd and branding an innocent person before they have even been convicted:
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/sheriffs-office-bragged-about-nurses-false-child-porn-arrest-publicly-broadcasted-name-and-address-lawsuit/
Grady Judd filed a motion to dismiss the case, and it was dismissed – judge ruled that it wasn’t false arrest and Edgardo Acevedo Cancela didn’t have a case. But keep on sending that headline around to make sex offenders feel the law does them wrong lol.