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Man charged in internet sting
He is facing a charge of using the internet to lure a child under the age
of 14.
So he was charged with luring a child under the age of 14. What a bastard. I hope that he gets what's coming to him, trying to take advantage of a young person like that!
So where is this child under 14? Let's get her some help!
There isn't one.
The charges stem from an incident on June 21, when a member of the
Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) was posing in online chat rooms as a
fictitious 13-year-old girl.
This man was chatting with a person that didn't exist! And the article doesn't state whether he tried to get her to meet him or have sex with him.
A man struck up a conversation with the undercover officer and made sexually explicit comments, police said, adding the man also sent "inappropriate images" to the fictitious girl.
Liking young girls and talking dirty to them is not luring, it's being inappropriate.
Should he be ostracized? Sure. Should he be thrown in jail. No.
There is no victim.
The exact charge was luring a child under the age of 14.
1. There was no child
2. There was no luring
Where is the crime? The crime he is really being punished for are his thoughts. In his head he was chatting with a 13 year old girl, even though that isn't really what he was doing.
"Thought crimes" have no victims, so they are not crimes.
If you want to be free to have your own sick thoughts (provided you don't act on them and hurt other people) then you need to allows other people the same freedom.
3 comments:
This issue at hand here is that the man was attempting to find a child to have sex with. Using undercover cops to catch these predators before they have a chance to do it is not only moral, but justified. The crime would have been to allow this pervert to get his hands on an underage girl, scarring her for life. Maybe you should do some research into psychology, see what happens to children who are lured into sex with adults. Preventing crime is even more important than punishing crime.
"Preventing crime is even more important than punishing crime."
I agree that preventing crime is a good thing. So perhaps he should be charged for something that makes sense. Or perhaps he should be encouraged to get help. He is being charged for 2 things that didn't actually take place.
That argument at least makes sense. Crime isn't just about victims. Speeding is illegal because it has a very high potential to cause a victim. That is why there are road rules. In the case of adults attempting to lure children, there must be preventative measures. While you may disagree with the wording involved in the legal action taken, the man was most likely (with 76% of people who look at child pornography also being molesters, according to Wikipedia) going to molest a child. This prevention was necessary, and a victory.
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