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18 arrested in Net-sex sting
By Ben Sutherly
Dayton Daily News
GREENVILLE | Eighteen men allegedly looking for sex this past weekend at a luxury home outside Greenville instead found themselves interviewed by Dateline NBC, then arrested by the Darke County Sheriff's Office.
Seventeen men, including six from Kettering, New Lebanon, West Milton, Franklin, Lebanon and Maineville, appeared Monday in Darke County Common Pleas Court on one felony count each of attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Three are from Indiana, one from Kentucky and the rest from across Ohio.
The 18th man, a 53-year-old doctor from Carmel, Ind., was being extradited Monday from an Indiana jail on a similar charge.
Plans for the Internet sting that led to the arrests evolved out of a conversation sheriff's Detective Mike Burns had less than two months ago with the group Perverted-Justice. Burns was seeking training on patrolling Internet chatrooms for pedophiles.
Perverted-Justice describes itself as a watchdog "vigilance committee" whose volunteer contributors use fake screen names while posing as young teenagers online, then wait for pedophiles to make contact with them.
The group posts online conversations with pedophiles at www.perverted-justice.com
Perverted-Justice has cooperated with Dateline, which has broadcast Internet sex stings by Perverted-Justice three times. Dateline's broadcast of the Darke County sting is tentatively scheduled to air May 3 and May 10 as part of the TV show's To Catch a Predator series, producer Lynn Keller said.
The Internet sting marked the first time the show had compensated Perverted-Justice in the form of a "consultation," said Allan Maraynes, a senior investigative producer with Dateline.
18 arrested in Net-sex sting
By Ben Sutherly
Dayton Daily News
GREENVILLE | Eighteen men allegedly looking for sex this past weekend at a luxury home outside Greenville instead found themselves interviewed by Dateline NBC, then arrested by the Darke County Sheriff's Office.
Seventeen men, including six from Kettering, New Lebanon, West Milton, Franklin, Lebanon and Maineville, appeared Monday in Darke County Common Pleas Court on one felony count each of attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Three are from Indiana, one from Kentucky and the rest from across Ohio.
The 18th man, a 53-year-old doctor from Carmel, Ind., was being extradited Monday from an Indiana jail on a similar charge.
Plans for the Internet sting that led to the arrests evolved out of a conversation sheriff's Detective Mike Burns had less than two months ago with the group Perverted-Justice. Burns was seeking training on patrolling Internet chatrooms for pedophiles.
Perverted-Justice describes itself as a watchdog "vigilance committee" whose volunteer contributors use fake screen names while posing as young teenagers online, then wait for pedophiles to make contact with them.
The group posts online conversations with pedophiles at www.perverted-justice.com
Perverted-Justice has cooperated with Dateline, which has broadcast Internet sex stings by Perverted-Justice three times. Dateline's broadcast of the Darke County sting is tentatively scheduled to air May 3 and May 10 as part of the TV show's To Catch a Predator series, producer Lynn Keller said.
The Internet sting marked the first time the show had compensated Perverted-Justice in the form of a "consultation," said Allan Maraynes, a senior investigative producer with Dateline.
