Peado Hunters!

[OwlHoot]

The 4 arrests... are they the people entrapping people online? Has any crime been committed by arranging to meet someone who claims to be a child?

If not then perhaps there should be another group who pretend to be paedos, to trap the people trying to trap the paedos.

If would be quite comical filming two the groups confronting each other.

[minestrone]

There will be a lot of people setting up peado bashing groups now.

[northernladuk]

Probably it is. If you groom a bunch of 40-year-old men is that a crime though?

Only if you can be sure from the start the other person is just that. Strike up a conversation with a real teenager and they turn up to a meet or something it is all going to go horribly wrong. Messing up while trying to do the right thing isn't going to be much of a defense even if they were doing it for the right reasons.

I applaud their willingness to tackle this but I can't see it ending well in every case. Very dodgy ground.

[VectraMan]

There must be more teenagers pretending to be adults than the other way around (because that's what teenagers do - want to grow up). Imagine if you made an online friend (if there is such a thing) over a completely innocent shared interest, agreed to meet up in an entirely non-sex capacity and they turned out to be a 13 year old girl? How guilty are you?

Probably not at all, but the vigilante squad won't give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Zippy]

Probably it is. If you groom a bunch of 40-year-old men is that a crime though?

Some of us have been doing it for a while, but have yet to have a visit from the rozzers

[MarillionFan]