Dateline: To Catch a Predator

We're watching Dateline, and it's about online predators. They've set up decoy chats, "young teens" (12, 13, & 14 year olds) who are chatting with older men looking to meet them. The men then showed up to a house expecting the teens to be alone and waiting for them. Sexually explicit chats with both girls and boys, and 19 men showed up to meet in 3 days. Well, most of them ran when they saw the reporter come from the shadows, but a few sat and talked to the reporter, admitted what they were trying to do, etc. So far, they've had a Sergeant in the US Army (who also wanted to engage in be@sti@lity with the child), an emergency room doctor, a Special Ed teacher, and A RABBI. The rabbi had exchanged such explicit photos and chatting that they could show only tiny bits on TV, and was meeting a "13" year old boy. I'm so appalled and enraged, I cannot believe such disgusting people are holding such honorable positions. Seriously, how in the FUCK does something like this go through someone's brain?? The most insane part is that charges are not filed immediately, even though there is record of the crimes. The employers were notified in some cases, and the military in the cases of soldiers and sailors. We, as parents, need to do something about these people. Check your child's message archive in Yahoo! messenger, monitor online activity, and talk to your kids. I remember being approached online when I was a young teen, men asking perverse questions and trying to initiate contact. These disgusting criminals will stop at nothing to harm our children.