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The practice has become widespread undercover agents pose as children on Internet chat rooms. When adults strike up online relationships and arrange for sexual liaisons, police are waiting at the rendezvous point with handcuffs and arrest warrants.
But a ruling of a federal court judge in Los Angeles is calling the legality of the tactic into question.
The U.S. District Judge acquitted the man today of using the Internet to try to entice a child into sex. The mans attorney had argued that his client didn’t break federal law because the person his client was accused of enticing wasn’t a minor but a L.A. County deputy pretending to be a minor. The ruling came just minutes after a jury returned a guilty verdict. The defendant, 42, of Mission Hills, had faced a sentence of five to 30 years.
Do you believe a judge like this should be removed from his bench? To release a pedophile because the kid wasn't a kid? He thought he was going to see a kid and we all know what he would have done.
BTW this will be appealed to a higher court.
But a ruling of a federal court judge in Los Angeles is calling the legality of the tactic into question.
The U.S. District Judge acquitted the man today of using the Internet to try to entice a child into sex. The mans attorney had argued that his client didn’t break federal law because the person his client was accused of enticing wasn’t a minor but a L.A. County deputy pretending to be a minor. The ruling came just minutes after a jury returned a guilty verdict. The defendant, 42, of Mission Hills, had faced a sentence of five to 30 years.
Do you believe a judge like this should be removed from his bench? To release a pedophile because the kid wasn't a kid? He thought he was going to see a kid and we all know what he would have done.
BTW this will be appealed to a higher court.