Catching potential Internet sex predators

So what happens now? 
As they always do with law enforcement, Frag and Del, volunteers from Perverted-Justice have turned over all of their online evidence, from the pornographic photos to the online chats, to Lt. Jacoby and his child sex crimes unit at the Fairfax county police department. Lt. Jacoby says they are actively looking at some of these cases, although it will be awhile before we know if his department takes any legal action. His department did notify school officials where about the teacher and he was fired.

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

Perverted-Justice intends to put 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.

The guy who showed up naked, tries to meet another kid the next day
You might think being caught on tape would be enough to deter these men from ever entering a chat room again, but wait until you see what “specialguy29” is up to next.

You might think that a 43-year old man, who walked into our house naked ready to meet a 14-year old boy for sex, would be so humiliated after being caught literally with his pants down that he’d never try again. Yet we find him right back on line... in a chat room the very next day.

Hansen: How can we be certain that this guy in this chat room is the same guy who walked into this house last night naked?

Frag, Perverted-Justice volunteer: Same identical screenname he got busted on last night on “specialguy29.”

Del, Perverted-Justice volunteer: He’s changed nothing.

He is spotted by a Perverted-Justice volunteer who is posing as a 13-year-old boy. 

Frag: He just checked the kids pic.

Even these Perverted-Justice veterans find what’s happening hard to believe.

Del: If he keeps talking then that’s just gonna be beyond comprehension.

Yet he does keep talking... and again the chat quickly turns sexual. And believe it or not, again, he agrees to yet another date for sex.  Our decoy asks if he wants to meet at McDonalds.

Hansen: What do you suppose the odds are that a guy like that would agree to another meeting?

Frag: I would have said zero last night after watching what happened.

Well, “specialguy29” defies the odds and agrees to meet, but first he confirms the meeting is not about food.

Frag: He really wanted to make sure it was about sex.

Sure enough we see him at the pre-arranged McDonalds.

Hansen: I have been in television for 24 years—

John, screenname "specialguy29": I just came to get something to eat.

Hansen: And I have very seldom be at a loss for words.

John: Sir, I just came to get something to eat.

Hansen: But I don’t even know what to ask you first.

John: I just came to get something to eat.

He later changes his story.

Hansen: Last night you walked into a home in suburban Washington naked with a 12- pack of beer, yes or no?

John: Yes.

Hansen: Right. Today you’re on the Internet again, you have an inappropriate conversation with a boy you think is 13 and you set up a meeting here at this fast food restaurant. What was your intention?

John: I don’t know.

The man admits he knows what he’s doing is illegal.

Hansen: Then why do you do it?

John: Because I need help and that’s what I’m seeing a psychiatrist for.

As incredible as this looks, that a man would do this twice in two days, Lt. Jacoby isn’t all that surprised.

"If you look at the Internet and the amount of people who are soliciting these type of crimes, your chances of getting caught are probably fairly slim," says Lt. Jacoby.

Maybe that’s why so many of the men who visited our house walked in so confidently, almost like they owned the place. Remember Rabbi David Kaye?

Despite his actions, caught on hidden camera, and his graphic Internet exchange, Rabbi Kaye called us several times claiming he did nothing wrong.

However, earlier this week he resigned his rabbi staff position informing his employer he was going to be featured in this “Dateline” story. He also had no comment about this picture “Dateline” found while investigating the rabbi’s background. It shows Kaye in a group photo including two other rabbis caught and convicted of soliciting a child for sex on the Internet.

Hansen: Do you ever think to yourself, “I can’t believe how many people are out there.”

Jacoby: It’s overwhelming at times.

In the end, most experts agree it’s really up to parents to keep children safe from whoever’s out there.

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