![]() ![]() The others who have entered pleas, have pleaded not guilty. 6 of the 98 have either pleaded no contest or guilty. Of the 98 men now being prosecuted 5 are convicted sex offenders. 51 in California, 18 in Ohio, and 24 in Florida. That meant that officers could arrest virtually every man who showed up. Just like in our earlier investigations, Perverted-Justice contributors posed as decoys, but starting in California they also provided logs of the chats between potential predators and decoys to investigators. The online watchdog group Perverted Justice had been contacted by police or sheriff’s deputies in all three states. This was obviously a challenge for us, but one that ultimately paid off. Attorney’s Office in Virginia filed two charges against him: One for attempting to entice a minor to engage in an illegal sexual activity, and the other for travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity.ĭuring our investigations in California, Ohio and Florida, law enforcement planned parallel investigations so that after men arrived at our house and I confronted them, the men could be arrested. The day before our story aired in November 2005, he resigned his position. Kaye called us several times saying he did nothing wrong. He had transmitted nude pictures of himself and made a date to meet our decoy. He had chatted on line with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old boy. But on this day he stood visibly shaken in our kitchen. David Kaye had a good job working for a Jewish organization that brought Jewish kids from across the country to the nation’s capitol to learn about government. On day one of the investigation, the very first man to walk in the door was a rabbi. But there is no substitute adjective to describe what happened at our undercover house in Fairfax County, VA, outside Washington, DC. I once went an entire year purposefully not using the word “shocking” in my stories for Dateline because I thought the word was over-used. That so many men would show up in our first investigation was stunning, but in the second story it was who showed up that really surprised us. He’s scheduled to be sentenced next month. He faces up to 16 months in prison and must register as a sex offender. Last year Hogan pleaded guilty to using the Internet to transmit obscene material to a person under 16. Even so, what he did was enough to get him fired from the New York City Fire Department and prosecuted by the U.S. He also drove by our undercover house, but coincidently, as he did, he saw a police car parked nearby and never came in. ![]() As you’ll see tonight, Hogan was the one who exposed himself and masturbated in front of a web cam while chatting online with a decoy who said she was 14. He’s Ryan Hogan, who at the time was a New York City firefighter. In fact, only one man seen in that broadcast is being prosecuted as a result. As a result fewer men faced criminal charges. You may recall that back in September 2004 when we aired our first “To Catch A Predator” story, law enforcement was not aware of what we were doing ahead of time. ![]()
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