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- Title: Prosecutors and the Media: It's Better Than You Think.
- Author : Journal of the National District Attorneys Association Prosecutor
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 337 KB
Description
IN 2003 THE USE OF THE INTERNET TO exploit and actively harm children was growing in the United States. Before the advent of Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) programs, law enforcement was left with sting operations that relied on mail and phone calls. Proving specific intent was often difficult. Prosecutors were concerned about claims of entrapment and the ethical use of a child's photo sent by undercover officers to a suspected child molester. In 2004 Investigative Reporter Lisa Fletcher, using many of the same guidelines law enforcement would follow to build her case, hatched her own plan. Acting on her own, without direction from any government agency, she posted photographs of herself at age 13 on Internet chat rooms assuming the name "Kelsey Cole" and displaying the trusting behavior that predators have learned to exploit. In order to prove that the would-be molesters couldn't claim they were acting on a lark, she actively corresponded with two middle aged men--one from New York, the other from Nevada. Fletcher used tracking software and a screen snapshot program, as well as printouts, to keep meticulous records of her Internet chats. There was to be no question that she was neither leading the suspects nor entrapping them. Eventually both made plans to meet with "13-year-old Kelsey" in Phoenix.