'To Catch a Predator' III

If you think what the potential predators had to say to us was surprising, wait until you hear what they admit to detectives. This man had a secret life he hid from his family.

Police officer: But you have had sex with men before?

Roberto Forte: It happens.

Police officer: It happens. Does your wife know this?

Forte: No she doesn’t.

After the men have been arrested, they are driven away in an unmarked car and brought to a makeshift booking station.

“Kinky-man-in-corona,” or Walter Babst, the high school teacher, declines to comment. But the man who came ready with apple pie, whipped, and contraceptive cream  does talk.

Police officer: Are you on probation or parole?

Jerry Griffith: I’ve never even had a ticket, I’ve never done anything. I mean this is like the one time in my life I ever fucked up and I shouldn’t have come over here. I have a wife at home you know, I should be at home trying to fix things between me and her.

Detectives question the married songwriter who showed up looking for sex with a 13-year-old.

Police officer: You brought Viagra, you brought lubricants?

Stephen Coates: That’s all there in the car in case I would have run into someone else, not necessarily this girl.

And the federal agent can’t seem to stop talking to the cops.

Michael Burks:  My father was a police officer. I was a police officer. I work for the Department of Homeland security.  I understand you guys have a job to do and I’m not trying to tell anything else other than that.  I swear to God, as God as my witness, I’m wearing a St. Michael’s medal right now, okay?  I was not going to do anything with her. 

But the detective doesn’t seem to be buying his story.

Police officer: I am telling you I don’t believe that you didn’t intend to have sex at some point with the girl.

Burks: Sir, I swear to God.

Police officer: It would have happened, I guarantee you, it would have happened.

And he has one more thing to say to the disgraced federal agent.

Police officer: In your position, you should have known better. You know the law. That’s even worse. You know what, that puts a bad mark on my job, on everybody.  Every cop in this country you put a bad mark on.

Burks: I know, sir.

And as for the 65-year-old who told us he’d be willing to have sex with a 13-year-old, believe it or not, all he wants to do is call his mom.

Chuck Harding: I should call my mother and let her know that I got home safely.

Police officer: Well, that’s gonna be arranged through the jail.

Harding: She’ll be worried that I didn’t get home because I was supposed to meet at her place.

Because this is the first time law enforcement has stepped in and arrested the men right after they left the sting house, this is the first time we get to see all of the men’s personal belongings which leaves little doubt as to their intent.

We saw cameras, CDs that contain some pornography, a tube of lube, a sex toy in a gym bag, Viagra, among other things.

The cops work from morning until night booking the suspects, towing their cars, and shipping them off to jail.

In all, 50 men were booked on a variety of charges involving crimes against children, ranging from felony charges of attempted lewd acts with a child younger than 14 —  to sending child pornography.

If watching the men in our report so far has disturbed you, wait until you meet these men. As the detectives start digging into their backgrounds, it becomes clear some of them have frightening criminal histories.

More arrests lead us to some dangerous pasts. It turns out some of the potential sexual predators have lengthy rap sheets and a trail of very real victims.

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