On the hunt for Internet sex predators

What happened after Dateline's first report? 
As they always do, Frag and Del, volunteers from Perverted-Justice turned over all of their online evidence, from the pornographic photos to the online chats, to law enforcement.

Just last week Lt. Jacoby’s detectives brought “Specialguy29,” the man who stood naked in our kitchen, in for questioning.  They also executed a search warrant for evidence in his car and home. They seized a computer and other property. Charges have not yet been filed.

Since some of the men were in the Army and Navy, Del contacted the military. "Dateline" was told that those men are under investigation.

The prosecutor in Fairfax county told “Dateline” he expects to bring three or four cases—men caught in our investigation—to the grand jury on Monday but won’t confirm which ones.

Just days before our report aired last month, the rabbi resigned his staff position informing his employer he was going to be featured in this “Dateline” story.  Because the rabbi lives in Montgomery County Maryland, Fairfax shared information about him with the police in that county and he is currently under investigation.

The Army told “Dateline” that the military man who tried to entice a minor into depraved sexually acts is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.

And the Navy says it is investigating a man, a chief petty officer with the screenname “photofrog1962.” He said a few times in his chat that he wasn’t coming for sex, but he also asked the decoy to shower with him, masturbate, and asked if she wanted to be his “first.” He also wanted her to model for him.

(hidden camera footage) Hansen: how far did you drive to get here today?

"photofrog 1962": Almost 200 miles

Hansen: 200 hundred miles?

"photofrog 1962": Yes

Hansen: So that a 13-year-old girl would model a bathing suit for you?

"photofrog 1962": That and we’d go sightseeing downtown.

A naval spokesperson said “photofrog1962” may have had other online conversations with minors but it is not known if the chats were sexual.

As we reported earlier, the Fairfax County police notified the school where the special education teacher worked and he was fired.

As for the ER doctor, on the day our story aired his hospital privileges were suspended and he was also fired.

"Dateline" has learned that this man who had recently become a U.S. citizen went back to Egypt. 

Perverted-justice put all the men’s pictures and entire chat logs including their phone numbers on perverted-justice.com 

Frag, Perverted-Justice volunteer: We have over 20,000 members now in our forums, do their work, whatever they want to do. A lot of them will contact whoever is associated with that person.

Usually that means the man’s employer, relatives and neighbors. Members will direct them to the chat logs and other evidence on Perverted-Justice’s Web site hoping to keep men like these from harming children.

But in the end, most experts agree—it’s really up to parents to keep children safe from online predators.

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