NETWORK EXECS: SEXUAL PREDATORS + MISS AMERICA = SEXY RATINGS HIT
It’s genius! As the AP Reports:
Miss America can add crime fighter to her resume.
Lauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators.
Officers with Suffolk County’s computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.
Forbidden sex! Young teenage girls! Naughty thoughts of Miss America as a sexually adventurous 14-year-old girl luring older men into her Long Island den of explicit sexual impropriety! And all in time for May sweeps?? It’s gold!
“The story was that they knew I was 14, and I told them I was cutting school to meet with them,” Nelson said. “I stood outside on the porch, and I would say, ‘Hi’ to them and wave them inside.”
Once she entered the home with the suspect, Nelson said, she left the room, and police and “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh confronted the suspect.
“That part was very scary, but the police were all over the place,” Nelson said. “I was nervous, of course, but it was a very controlled environment, very safe.”
I’m not sure any media sensation where the attempted sexual exploitation of children becomes a sure-fire, sexy ratings phenomenon can really be considered a “controlled environment.”
10 Responses to “NETWORK EXECS: SEXUAL PREDATORS + MISS AMERICA = SEXY RATINGS HIT”
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on 25 Apr 2007 at 6:11 am # JAB
First of all,..let’s dispell any notion that Dateline NBC’s “To Catch A Predator” is a piece of investigative journalism. They are not investigating an independant phenomenon, but rather, are creating the phenomenon they are inveatigating. Ethically speaking it is contrary to the core values taught to journalism majors. They should call it what it really is. An entertainment segment in which they control the environment and create the story they are reporting on.
While I am all for ridding the world of potential predators and think sex crimes against children are particulary heinous, I am concerned this approach is not going to do that. I am curious how many of these predators who are lured into this trap are sucessfully prosecuted. While many of them likely roll over and “confess” (to? WANTING to have sex with an underage girl, but not actually doing so?) I believe that those who get an attorney and offer a stiff challenge have some legal grounds for having these cases tossed. Bear in mind that most of these people suffer from a mental or emotional disorder. In short, they are sick!! In the most literal sense. This show entraps these preadtors, even wheeling out a Ms. America to further tempt their salivating thoughts. Kind of like waving a steak in front of a homeless person then arresting him for theft once he takes a bite. Again, I am all for protecting our children and believe parents should take an active (and lead) role in doing so. I do not believe the end justifies the means and I fear that while NBC racks up ratings and interest in this show, they are on the wrong side of the legal equation in trying to actually convict these people (of course the ratings are the likley driver, and NBC is driven by this more than some civic duty I am guessing).
on 25 Apr 2007 at 6:46 am # Dave
This is called entrapment where I come from. It is illegal.
The best response is to have these charges tossed out of court.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 7:57 am # Abraham
Good for her. Perverts need to be nabbed and put away.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 8:59 am # crano
These people are as perverted with their self righteousness as the people theyre trying to lure and entice into their trap. Brainless Barbie dolls and overzealous cops….what a mix….gestapo here we come.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 9:23 am # zhongweikun
It’s so ridicilious that the girl get the miss America.
The inner beatiful and knowledge is the most important thing.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 10:15 am # eric
Amen to most of the commentors, this type of activity is despicable. They are creating criminals rather than busting current ones. why? quite simply: it’s easier. It’s much easier to lure someone in with the promise of sex than it would be to say, stop all the teenage girls from getting online and trying to hook up with older men, but then again you can’t blame the parents for anything anymore can you. obviously it happens or they wouldnt be doing stings like this. Don’t get me wrong, I think there are a lot of perverts online that need to be locked up, but this isn’t the way to do it. The only people this type of sting protects, are teenage whores, and since there is no punishment or backlash toward those girls, they’ll keep trying to hook up with older guys, haven’t you ever seen maury? it happens all the time. This law doesn’t protect your little innocent daddy’s little girl, it protects your no good whore of a daughter. That’s who is getting online looking for sex from older guys, and that’s the bottom line. If parents were a little more active in the kids lives, we wouldn’t even have a need for these stings, or the shows they try and put em on. My mom woulda busted my ass if she ever found me trying to hook up with someone that much older.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 10:46 am # against all sex acts,BUT
I have one word to say about these sting operations.
Most of them are enprapment and the pwerson, such as Miss America is just as guilty for offering herself to someone in a round about way to see if they will go for it.
Miss America I think what you are doing or did do was wrong and you should be shared for soliciting yourself to make yourself look enticing to get men to want you.
Shame on you.
I guess if the government is doing these things that makes it ok.
We have strange rules.
Certain things only apply to certain people, the government can’t change a few to make what they are doing legal.
Like gambling is illegal until the government get their cut of the money, then it becomes legal.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 10:51 am # against all sex acts,BUT
This is wrong, and its a shame that the government can get away with tricking people into doing something then say the person is doing wrong.
Miss America, you should be a shame of your self.
Offering your body in a sneaky way just to try someone.
They are no all perverts as you put it, maybe wanting sex with you but that doesn’t make them a pervert.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 10:55 am # Ohmygosh
Using miss America to entrap men, the state of affairs in the USA. You can have it. Making men criminal for finding a young miss America sexy, and trying to make it a reality. Go find real criminals, not make new ones.
on 25 Apr 2007 at 10:56 am # Entrapment
A 14 year old offering herself is just as gulity for offering.
Its called Entrapment. What mades it right for any underage person to offer him or herself for service in this area by enticing a person to do something then you burn them for wanting the service.
Oh thats right………………It’s legal because the government said it is.
I have a very low oppion of Miss America for doing this. Was it for money? Did she get paid for doing it?
It’s time the laws go for all people including the government system , such as the police department.