Thank goodness for Grady Judd!
Sheriff Judd arrested 17 people in “Operation Child Protector” which ran from July 27 through Aug. 1. The sting created a revenue stream for central Florida by generating a purported 49 felonies and two misdemeanours, including “travelling to meet a minor for sex, attempted lewd battery, use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of material harmful to a child.” (1)
There was, not surprisingly, a press conference where Judd eloquently described those arrested as “incredible deviants,” “dangerous,” and “nasty, nasty, nasty people.”(3) In the article the fact that these stings use online dating sites to entice men to show up was downplayed, but surprisingly acknowledged. Mugshots and personal information was flaunted in Judd’s media postings, even though these men have yet to be convicted of any crime. A vision of the old time pillory, used to shame and punish, whirls through my head, complete with the angry mob throwing rotten vegetables at the accused, for sport
and entertainment. Have we really come very far from sixteenth century England?
“We threw the bait out in the water … and you bit the bait. What we didn’t do is take this big net … grab you and then stick the bait in your mouth.” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, on child sex stings (2)
Sheriff Grady believes posting innocuous ad’s on adult dating sites doesn’t constitute a ‘big net’. Knowing that people searching for legal, adult interaction are the number one users of ADULT dating sites, I’m not sure how else to describe that net other than BIG and WIDE.
The articles bombarding the internet concerning this particular sting also tout that purportedly 3 of those arrested worked at Disney – an obvious attempt to scare the public into thinking people bent on child sexual abuse have a devious master plan. While true that there are unsavory persons, both actively seeking, and situationally not adverse to a sexual encounter with a child, implying those people are rampant among Disney employees is entirely unfounded.
A quick review of Walt Disney Company’s hiring practices through the job search website “Indeed” verifies that Disney background checks it’s employees. (4)
In fact, Disney has one of the strictest policies on hiring, for obvious reasons. Following a 2014 investigation of Disney employees, Disney posted the following statement:
“Providing a safe environment for children and families is a responsibility we take very seriously,” a Disney spokeswoman said in a statement to CNN. “We have extensive measures in place, including pre-employment and ongoing criminal background checks and computer monitoring and firewalls. The numbers reported by CNN represent one one-hundredth of one percent of the 300,000 people we have employed during this time period. We continue to work closely with law enforcement and organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as we constantly strengthen our efforts.”(5)
Unfortunately, as is so often the case, that article also points out that Universal Studios fired an employee, caught in a sting, as proof that they too take public safety seriously. It does not mention if that person was tried and convicted of the crime.
The Epoch Times article stated that “nine of them have criminal histories” yet you can be sure none of them had previous sex offenses. That would have been the headline. So again, we are talking about arresting and prosecuting 27 persons, with no history of child sexual exploitation, caught potentially on adult dating sites.
The article states law enforcement officers posed as children, yet it does not say that the ads responded to specifically mentioned children. As we know, often police post normal looking ads, change the age(s) after contact is made, and then claim the arrestees were ‘looking for children’. Articles like these remind me that the spin from police is intentional, to steer public opinion in a self serving direction. Public shaming skirts the truth, in this case specifically pointing out that one arrestee has herpes, and that some sent pornography. Notice that nothing to do with children is used here as evidence of intent or wrong doing.
Judd Grady wants us all to applaud “Operation Child protector”. Yet the real crime here is that law enforcement purposely try to spin the truth to public shaming so that their unethical tactics stay unscrutinized.
What child was protected in this sting? Certainly not the children of these 27 persons who will be prosecuted regardless of intent or design to harm a child.
Written by Lady Justice Myth
- https://news.yahoo.com/three-employees-walt-disney-world
- https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/14/us/theme-park-employees-child-sex-stings/
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/17-arrested-in-undercover-child-predator- operation-including-3-disney-employees
- https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Walt-Disney-Parks-and-Resorts/faq/background-check
- https://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/2014/07/17/disney-stresses-background-checks-after-investigation/
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Breaking news!
If you have any apple device, you better read this. Apple is now cooperating with law enforcement around the U.S by scanning your phones and devices automatically for porn, text messages and more.
Looks like no warrant needed but watch and listen to video yourself
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-to-scan-us-iphones-for-child-abuse-images/vi-AAN1QWq?ocid=msedgntp
CherokeeJack and All Other Interest People…
This info is from one of my GEEK-A-ZOID friends; he actually sold his company to SunMicro for $1.2 Billion; so I think he Knows something:
“It is called hashing….Hashing is a wonderful technology for numerical and alphanumerical sequences, BUT FOR PICTURES AND IMAGES AND THE LIKE, IT IS NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE AS IT USES AN ALGORITHM TO ASSIGN NUMERICAL VALUES; SO AN ALGORITHM DOES NOT MATCH APPLES TO APPLES….THAT IS THE PROBLEM…”
You all should see the comments on the YouTube video of his press conference. People are literally ignoring the fact that these men were on a dating site for ADULTS and initially assumed they were chatting with adults. My goodness!! People are truly brainwashed with fear mongering.
They are all so stuck on this whacky idea that someone would go on a site like Match to look for minors. Just because these men stupidly kept chatting with the undercover officers AFTER being told they are a 15 yr old girl is quite frankly irrelevant. The relevance here is that criminality was CREATED where criminal activity was NOT the initial intention of these men. And these idiots in the comments section better realize it could happen to someone THEY know and love.
This is enough to make the hair on your head hurt to see such blatant one sided stupidity. Well, I once heard someone say the internet is an “idiot box that brings out the stupid in people”. He was right.
Look at the comments section;
https://youtu.be/jI1xyhaWJrk
Maestro
There was a case many years ago where an undercover would walk up to people and ask “Hey man, you lookin to score”? If they took the offer to buy the drugs, they got arrested. Most of them took a plea. But one guy who had enough money hired a high profile attorney.
The lawyer properly argued that the citizen was minding his own damn business when the undercover came over and planted the idea into his clients mind that he should buy some drugs. Otherwise he would have been on his merry way.
The courts agreed that the operation was entrapment because the arrestee did not initiate the conversation but was “lured” into a trap. Could he have said no and walked away? For sure. But did he go looking for trouble? We will never know but he both won and lost. He won his case and all charges were dropped. But he spent untold thousands on a great defense, so lost a lot of money.
That was one case a long time ago back when I was in College earning a degree in CJT Or Criminal Justice Technology. I brought this case up because, other one being about drugs and the other sex, the same situation applies.
If these men were truly on an adult site looking for adults to date, and some undercover posing as a 15 year old got them to take the bait, it should be entrapment. Like someone else on here said, if the cops want to catch predators, have them go on kids sites and look for the bad guys/gals whose intentions really are to look for kids.
I guess they cannot do that though because most kids sites do not allow anyone over 18 anymore. I have seen a lot of people with their kids on their videos having the comments automatically block to protect their kids. A friend of mine had his account frozen because he marked “Made for kids”. He was NOT looking for kids, he set it up for his own kid to do youtube videos, and enjoy sharing things he did with his Dad like fishing, Karate, working on the car etc.
My final thought is, the entire damn system is broken and not sure it can ever be repaired. We have become so PC that even jokes like “How many Cherokee Jacks does it take to screw in a light bulb?” gets you sent to the principles office.
The answer by the way is zero. Cherokee Jack uses LED lights that are long lasting and not replaceable LOL
Not only did they not protect any children, they certainly harmed plenty. The children they harmed, and will harm for decades, are actual, real children who actually exist.
De-fund law enforcement. They can’t seem to focus on crimes.
In this case, Never! even made any communication with a minor,now punished and banished for life
I got caught in one of these stings while in Nebraska. Never thought cops would be on an adult site and after further conversations do the age switch. I was talking to an adult pretending to be a minor; while they got promotions and I got a record. Opened up my eyes of the true American justice system.
“A quick review of Walt Disney Company’s hiring practices through the job search website “Indeed” verifies that Disney background checks it’s employees.”
Blah blah and more blah. False sense of security is what a background check is. I will always speak out against this idea that companies making sure to tell the public that they do background checks is ridiculous. Why? Because WE KNOW THEY DO BACKGROUND CHECKS. Duh! And also because the background checks don’t predict the future. But don’t let me be the bearer of that OBVIOUS news. Happens all the time. We haven’t learned yet, have we? Nope.