Is it true that on the show Dateline:To Catch a Predator nothing really happens to them?
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There are many things they can and are charged with, depending on where they are arrested. The most common charge for a situation like that is called Solicition of a Minor for Illicit Purposes.\n\nAny charges on top of that would depend on how much they did before showing up to the house. There could be Transmission of Obscene Matter to a Minor, Contributing to the Delinquency/Dependency of a Minor, Attempting Sexual Contact with a Child, etc. The names of these charges would change a little based on individual state laws. But just about anywhere, these are all felonies. If you get hit for just one of them, there is a chance the judge will be lenient. But the more of them you have, the longer the sentence will be.\n\nIt's possible that a really good, high-priced lawyer could get one or two of the charges reduced or dropped. But without the large amount of money that would require, there is a very real chance of a very long prison term.
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the disinformation office or m15, a show was sorta made about them with GhOsTs, but it wasnt accurate at all. Knowing the disinformation office they would be something like the tellephone record books!
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I had a stalker a few months back, which finally got arrested and thrown in jail.. but anyways he would hang out alot right outside my door, peek in my windows almost everynight (even if I had company!) Call my house and hang up as soon as I answered (I saw him doing it from his car). Anyways I was really scared and would call the police often about him, but either he would take off before they got there or run.. Police finally watched my house one night and caught him in my yard near my back door.. freaky stuff.
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There is no easy answer to this question. Chemistry? Childhood? Abuse? Television? Violence? Environment? Were they molested? A combination of all of these? Or, was it simply just something they decided to do one day? The frightening truth is that no one really knows. There are some clues as to who might become a sexual predator and who might not, but even these are vague and not as dependable as they might seem. The answer to you question lies within each individual sexual predator.
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Just do not worry about it if you were you would know for sure and you now know at this time you are not. If you are not gay or lesbian now and you know it there isn't nothing to worry about. You would of known you were if you were way before watching Dateline.
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Try this:  Based on the number of souls that have died over the centuries, ghosts, if they existed, shouldn't be hard to find at all.  Point out that on the Travel channel's "Most Haunted" series where a crew goes to a new 'most haunted' place every week they never have captured a ghost on video!  Nor has the Sci-Fi channel's "Ghost Hunters" series.  You may want to point out that if ghosts exist that it would be logical for them to appear on security cameras and surveilence cameras all the time...but this seems to never happen.  Sylvia Browne appears weekly on the Montel Williams show and tells people on the show that she sees their deceased loved ones "standing right beside them".  But the cameras never catch anything, nor do the microphones.  I heard a skeptic put it this way, and it's the most plausible explanation I've ever heard: "There are no haunted places, just haunted people."  Good luck with your debate.
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The Myths and Truths about sexual offenders---The Myth::We can relax a bit now that we have sex offender registration.….The Truth Despite Megan's Law, the overall number of sex offenses occurring have actually increased, the websites can only do so much; we need GPS and lifetime probation to control this population. Currently we are failing to control them    The Myth::Some Sex Offenders are not violent.….The Truth Non “Violent” Crimes such as molestation are just as traumatizing, and calling them “non-violent” is not in any way accurate.    The Myth::Most sex offenders don’t have a lot of victims …The Truth Although 75% of sexual offenders were convicted of one offense, that just means they were only caught once, almost 100% of them have multiple victims. Many have been found to have hundreds when they were polygraphed on this question.  The Myth::Most Sex Offenders were at one time abused as a child themselves, that’s why they do it.…The Truth Most "sex offenders" has never been sexually abused. In fact, offenders say this to appear less culpable for their crimes. When they are polygraph on this question their rates of being molested go way, way down, their rates are in fact close to the rest of us who are not molesting The Myth: :Sex.Offenders get serious punishment, and we don’t have to worry about them for years….The Truth They get revolving door sentences, if they even go to jail, and the vast majority do not, Offenders usually get probation, and even then sex offenders do not get   GPS and lifetime probation(as they need to). Offenders quickly get back to a normal life while victims have lifetime consequences.The Myth::Sex Offenders are very controlled on probation or parole and cannot look for more victims. The Truth Offenders without GPS are on part time supervision, they are “good” while in the Probation officers eyesight for the weekly office visit. Offenders  have all week to create more victims. Lifetime supervision with GPS would put society in charge. Currently offenders run the show, and this means more victims. The Myth:: Sex Offenders will grow old and out of this behavior.The Truth There is no “aging out” of offending. An offender has these desires and intentions for life. If they change it is to prevent being caught again. The Myth::Sex Offenders are all on the registry ….The Truth Sadly it’s very narrow and limited as to what crimes can be registered. Many offenders are given plea deals for non registerable crimes even though their actual behaviors were sexual offences. Laws must be changed so these “endangering the welfare of a minor” and other charges are registerable   The Myth::Offenders friends and family support their recovery …..The Truth In realty the offender’s friends and family have denial regarding the offender’s full responsibility for his offense (they like to blame victims, police, DA ect).  Offenders friends and family usually minimize the crime (he only touched her breast), and offenders friends and family often belittle rather than support the goals of supervision and treatment. Overall friends and family help the disorder rather than the offender who has it. Almost all of the time friends and family are working against the good of the community, although they may not know this.  The Myth::The community is the main concern during the supervision process ….The Truth Actually, the current situation is budgets and offender rights are more important than community safety. The Myth::Offenders have to register immediately with local law enforcement. …..The Truth Sex offenders are often given up to 10 days to register upon moving in, or being employed within a state. Some states don’t require sex offenders visiting their state to register. Most states do not require sex offenders to register in advance of a move, they can move in and then inform. Getting a violation on a manipulative offender trying to beat the system is far too d
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Keep in mind.. sexual offenders are different than sexual predators\n- offenders are not always likely to be repeat offenders... where as sexual predators are... a sex offender could be an 18 year old senior having sex with a 16 year old junior in high school....\n-Predators are the ones that prey on underage children, women, etc...
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The series will play out its 13 original episodes, then fade away into into the abyss of freshmen series that didn't make it, it was announced last week.\n\n"Reunion" creator Jon Harmon Feldman released a statement Monday saying the show's unique structure makes it impossible to solve the mystery by the end of January -- when "Reunion" is scheduled to leave the air, Zap2it.com reported.\nEach episode covers a year from 1986 to 2006 and episode 13 would only be 1998 -- eight years before the murder happened.\n\nHmm, I think Will killed her -- cause he loved her to death ;)
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Hard to track, as what sexual predator will come out and say that is who they are?! I work with child sexual predators at my job they range in age from 7-23, and they are a different breed entirely, trust me. Treatment will never cure them.
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Good luck with that!  \n\nEverything I have seen and heard in Psych classes says, no rehab for pedophiles or predators!
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never gonna happen, lol, can you imagine vthe fur flying there, who would kill who first, haha--but lets PRETEND, ok, i guess they might have a "dot" if they ever were able to mate, lol
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Think of people that work IN prisons, in the armed forces, security, in law enforcement, etc. I'm less worried about people who are known to have killed than I am about the serial murderers who are still uncaught....you know, the quiet ones who are "the people next door"\n\nOK, I watch a LOT of Law & Order and CSI!
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predators
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On CSI and the like tv crime shows there are always people who are just trying to play a prank or get back at someone but not kill them and end up doing so anyway. I'm sure that there are people who do this in real life as well. Therefore their crime would be unintentional. (Their real crime was probably stupidity but hey...)
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I understand your resentment, I mean the operation  unnecessarily entices people, who would otherwise not commit the crime.  HOWEVER, those guys showed up there are not being prosecuted based on thoughts but a definite commission of a crime. Here an attempted sexual abuse of a minor for sure (by most common definition, he or she must make substantial steps to effect a crime, sexual abuse of minor). \n\nInterestingly, some jurisdictions do offer a common law defense of entrapment. That is --- a procedural defense by which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts.\n\nHowever, for the defense to prevail he must show he was forced into committing a crime otherwise he would not. And that does not appear to be the case in the dateline stories.  Some guys even stripped before walking into the meeting house !0!
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I agree. The punishments for offenders are way too lenient. I subscribed to Scan USA. It's free, and they e-mail you when a predator has moved into your area. They let you pick several zip codes to be notified about. That worked great for me, I live in a place where there are several small towns that share boarders with each other. Also check your state registry for name, pics, and addresses. And yes, there is a predator  in my neighborhood, around the corner and down the street.\nI could not believe the number of e-mails I get from scanusa. There are at least a couple every week.