I go home and tell my wife that I saw my old hockey coach and I’d like to invite him over for a cookout. Anyway, we go our separate ways but do exchange phone numbers. He starts telling me about this girl that he coached since she was 10 on a girls hockey team who is now in college playing for a very good school. He asks me about my parents, I show him pictures of my family. To my surprise, he remembers me! We talk for a half an hour. He didn’t have any children though.Ģ0 years later or so I see him at a rink. Just figured he was a good guy doing something for kids. I was like 14 at the time but he’d always call me after games and give me tips and pointers, and I never found it weird. “I had a youth hockey coach who I always thought was a really nice guy. There aren’t necessarily signs you would see that would tip you off that your co-worker or neighbor or acquaintance is interested in underage girls.” - Moonlightonthelake80 He was a nice guy It really shows that it could be anyone who does this type of thing. There were zero signs he would do something like that. Very earnest and dedicated to the cause, trying to make the world a better place. He was married and had kids and was the nicest guy. I worked closely on a case with another lawyer who later was caught trying to have sex with an underage girl (who was really a cop). He called my husband one time after the show aired to say that “this was the first time he did anything like this, and he got caught up in the taboo nature of it.” Never spoke to him again.” - SeoulFeminist There were no signs We read the chat log between him and the “girl”, it was disgusting. He got a good lawyer and so the TCaP didn’t show the video of him getting busted, only a photo that he shared in the chat with who he thought was the young girl. He got busted trying to sleep with a 12 or 14 year old girl. We were all in our late 20s, he was a highly educated, well liked guy. “I’m pretty late to the game, but my husband worked with/good friends with one of the men on the first ever episode.

I felt really bad for her.” - wolfeybutt “He was nice” She’s a smart girl too and didn’t expect anything like that AFAIK. My friend was a WRECK after everything happened. There was nothing that stood out to me as creepy or off. He had come to get drinks for one of my birthdays and to be honest he seemed completely normal. It wasn’t until a few weeks later that we even learned he was on the show. “My friend dated someone who ended up disappearing, then we eventually found out he had been arrested for trying to sleep with an under age girl and having rope and guns in his trunk. To make a donation, please view the link below.To Catch a Predator “She didn’t expect it as far as I know” We are funded on donations from the communities. Predator Catchers, INC consists of volunteers who dedicate their time to help fight this issue. We hope to bring just as much exposure to all predators that we come across in our investigations. We are happy to hear that Meta took swift action and terminated Miles. This is why it is so important for parents to monitor their kids' devices and for groups like ours to exist. Online predators can be anybody, regardless of job title. While we were aware that Miles worked for Meta, because he told the decoy his job title, he is just one of hundreds of men and women we have confronted about having inappropriate conversations with children online. We hope we can continue working with law enforcement agencies to consistently put these predators behind bars. Our organization would like to provide education for parents and kids, assist with getting laws changed, and strive for harsher punishment for sexual predators. We need to come up with ways to better protect our children by monitoring kids' devices, educating our kids about the dangers of online predators, giving our kids tools to deal with online predators, and holding adults accountable for their actions. It is a serious issue that needs to be addressed in our society.Īdults are using the Internet to prey on our youth. We are grateful for the exposure of the video because it brings awareness to the growing problem of online predators.

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