They're still showing up

The team inside Dateline’s hidden camera house quickly moves into position. A man who made a date online for sex with a young girl has shown up earlier than expected.

Our decoy, playing the part of the young girl, heads to the front door to wave the man in.

32-year-old Christopher Xavier Cannon arrived to meet a 15-year-old virgin—at least that’s what he was told.  Turns out he’s a media director at his church, a volunteer position working with young teens, which makes his sexual explicit online chat all the more disturbing.  Using the screenname zavior01, he asks the girl if she’s ever had an orgasm. The decoy says “I don’t think so” and zavior01 says “good.”

Then he asks her (chat log):

Zavioro1 (chat log): do you want to be on top or bottom nats_all_that: i’m not sure which is better?

Zavior01: we’ll have to see were you fit best. if you know what i mean

nats_all_that: oic, i think i know lol

Zavior01: or we can do dawgy style

Christoper walks in.

Zavioro1 or Christopher Zavier Cannon (hidden camera footage): Can I use your restroom?

Hansen: Why don’t you just have a seat real quick right over there?

Cannon: I know what this is.

Hansen: Have a seat real quick.

Cannon:: I know what this was. I just wanted to test it that’s all.

Hansen: Sir ...

Cannon: I knew what this was.

Hansen: What’d you think it was?

He heads out the door right into the arms of the Harris County Sheriff’s department.

Cannon: I knew what it was, I knew what it was—I wasn’t doin nothing.

As our investigation continues here in rural Georgia it becomes clear there are plenty of other men who seem to know about our investigations but show up anyway.

Here comes “needafriendtotalkto2005.” He drove 4 hours to get here.

“Needafriendtotalkto” is really 25-year-old John Adam Daniels, a carpenter. He thinks he’s here to meet a 13-year-old virgin named Nina. Online, he asks her if she wants to try anal sex and if he can perform oral sex on her.  After the decoy agrees, she tells him she’s home alone and he asks to spend the night.

It even seems as if he brought an overnight bag.

Decoy:  Sorry I had to do laundry right away. I had to have something cute to wear tonight. did you try some of my sweet tea.  Sorry I’m a little stunned. Did you bring me anything?

John Adam Daniels: Yes I did.

Decoy: What’d you bring me?

Daniels: A drink and some KitKat

Hansen: Looks like you brought enough stuff to move in. Why don’t you have a seat.

And like some of the others, “needafriendtotalkto” appears to know what he’s walked into.

Daniels: Am I being taped?

Hansen: You are being taped.

Daniels: Oh, crap.  Am I gonna be—get arrested?

Hansen: That’s not up to me. You admit right here that you could be in trouble if anybody found out that a 25 year old—

Daniels:  Yes, sir.  I thought it was a bad idea too from the beginning sir.

Hansen:  But, if you thought it was such a bad idea why did you do it anyhow?

Daniels: I’m sorry. 

Hansen:  You started talking and 45 minutes into the conversation you say; Have you ever seen a man’s blank.

Daniels: Yes, yes sir.  I’m sorry, sir.

Hansen: You ask what size bra she wears.  Minutes later you ask if she would like to move in with you.

Daniels: Yes, sir.

Hansen: What are you thinking here?

Daniels: I’m stupid.  I’m completely, totally stupid.  I’m sorry.  Can I leave sir?

Just like all the men who show up at our house, he’s free to leave. Since he’s seen our reports before, he probably knows he won’t be free for long and there’s no where to run.

And the parade continues...

Another man who despite seeing our previous broadcasts is willing to take the risk of showing up at a stranger’s house to possibly have sex with a minor.

He’s 22-year-old Matthew Cogburn- yesterday was his birthday. He’s here to meet a decoy pretending to be a 14-year-old. 

This clean cut all-American looking man has a MySpace page where he says “Jesus rocks” and lists god as his number one hero.  But when he goes into a Yahoo chat room, he seems like another person. His chat with a girl he thinks is 14 is so graphic, much of it can’t be shown.  He does ask the decoy if her house is secluded so if they use the jacuzzi, “you can moan and squeal all you want.”

Matthew Cogburn (hidden camera footage): Nice house.

Decoy: Thank you. Did you have a hard time getting here?

Cogburn: Well the road that I was looking for  didn’t show up.

Hansen: Why don’t you have a seat there, and get comfortable for a minute

Cogburn: I had a feeling this was going to happenHansen: You had a feeling what was going to happen?

Cogburn: Is this the national news thing. The national news all that stuff?

Hansen: NBC? You mean like Dateline NBC?

Cogburn: Yeah.

Hansen: What was your plan here today?

Cogburn: I don’t. I can’t answer that as I want to because I’ve been in a struggle with myself on what I want, ‘cause I’m still a virgin and a just, and it’s stupid that I did this.

Hansen: How old are you?

Cogburn: 22

Hansen: And how old was the girl you were chatting with on line?

Cogburn: The girl said she was 13 or 14.

Hansen: 13 or 14? And you thought that it would be okay to come over here and visit a young girl home alone?

Cogburn: I wanted it, I wanted to think it was okay, but I guess (he shrugs his shoulders)

Hansen: Now, I’m looking at this chat log here. Sixteen minutes into this discussion you ask if she can do ‘deep throat’. Explain that to me.

Cogburn: No reason to explain it.

Hansen: No reason to explain it. (reading from chat) ‘How do you feel about sex?’ ‘You on birth control?’ or ‘re you sticking with condoms?’ ‘you got toys’?

Cogburn: is there any ah

Hansen: Well I want you to square that with what’s on your MySpace Website where you talk about “Jesus rocks.”

You’ll hear more about this man’s inner struggle after he’s in police custody.

But there are many more potential sex predators about to keep their date with Dateline, more examples of the potential danger facing children on the Internet.

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