[jennie]

What do you think of Perverted Justice? An excerpt from their website http://www.perverted-justice.com/guide/ . . .

[i]Perverted-Justice.com recruits volunteer contributors who pose as underage children in chatrooms. Posing from a variety of ages (standard ages are 10-15), these contributors simply go into chatrooms with fake online screennames and wait for predators to instigate conversation with them. Are you curious as to what our contributors see when they go into chat with these underage names? Finding out for yourself is easy. Simply go to Yahoo.com, create a new profile, put underage information in your profile (works best if you are posing as a girl), then log into any regional chatroom (perhaps even the one closest to your own community). Without even saying anything in the chatroom, you will often be deluged by PM's that will occassionally be open solicitations for sex or "grooming" (an adult preparing, through conversation, an underage child for such solicitations). Now simply imagine if, instead of you, it actually was a young child logging online only to receive this "perverted" greeting from fellow chatters. Hence, the problem.

We at Perverted-Justice.com discourage you from taking the ruse beyond this point, going this far proves the point we're trying to make - that sexual predators are online looking for young children - and any further dialogue you make with the people on the other end is your responsibility, and yours alone.

The carefully selected, screened and trained Perverted-Justice.com staff take this escapade one logical step further, in an attempt to find out more about the problem. Using their underage personas, they strike up conversations with the people who PM them. The people we find in these chats talking to our underage personas typically range between 25-60 years old: so much older than the underage personas (which range from 10-15) that it gives cause for alarm. In our experience, the vast majority of these chatters express an interest in physically meeting our underage personas, even luring them away from family and friends to a discreet, private location for a rendezous of an explicitely sexual nature.

During the course of the conversations our contributors have with these chatters, we watch out for signs that the chatter is soliciting the "youth" for sex, and after that person demonstrates the clear intent or interest to go beyond chat and meet with these underage personas (often through the form of real received addresses, names, phone numbers and meeting locations given voluntarily by the chatter during the course of the chat to help facilitate a meeting), our PeeJ contributors post all information in the chat logs to the Perverted-Justice.com database (not before careful verification proceedures to ensure authenticity). We feel exposing these "wannabe pedophiles" illustrates for others the problem of predators and internet pedophilia, and helps raises community awareness.[i]

i saw a Dateline story concerning what they do. sounds like it works and i'm all for it. pat

[SeptemberMorn]

I've heard about this! I'm all for it! These perverts aren't only after young children. They'll use anyone that is guillible enough to believe anything they say!

Those of us that need to be especially careful are those that have been victims of any kind and at any age. I fell pray to a few myself in my early days of being on the Internet. I forgot I was in my own home and could simply log off if I had to!

It can be a sick world out there!!

Yes Ive heard about this kind of stuff but it wasnt through the web. it was through a tv show and newspaper articles about a woman with the last name of Posey. She really does go on line prestending to be a teen and then when the perps want to meet her she has the help of her local police department, they set up where she meets the perps and arrests them on the spot in the act of meeting her. That woman sure has guts. and I say to all like her - go for it. These jerks need to be caught.

[Lexicon78]

I'm all for this kind of thing to get these freaks to come out of the woodworks.

They're everywhere.

The womans name is Julie Posie. and the movie was on lifetime. For more info on her and the movie just type in search bar JuliePosey.com

[SeptemberMorn]

I'm all for luring these creeps out from under their rocks. But you know what?? It doesn't do much good unless the States have stiffer laws on how to punish them! Judges are allowing the creeps to walk with very little or no prison time! We gotta do something about that, too!!

[jennie]

You are so right (about States needing stiffer laws) SeptemberMorn!

[HelgaDE]

Im all pro in doing this.

[Lexicon78]

I agree, Helga. Like my ex is one of those sick people. He had a previous charge of statuatory rape and all. Well, he got a tiny sentence from abusing 2 children. His sentence? 12 months or less in the county prison. It was a real joke, IMO!

A good thing about all this? He violated parole and is now serving time in the state penitentiary. Hopefully they're taking good care of him there...Big Bubba and his gang...