FBI arrests CNN producer
Eagle Eye
The FBI has arrested a CNN executive producer on charges he used
the Internet to try and entice an underage girl for sex.
Agents claim that Alan Audet, a 44-year-old father living in
Marietta, used a chat room to develop an online relationship with a
person whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
The FBI says Audet was actually communicating with members of its
Innocent Images Task Force (IITF).
Agents say Audet attempted to entice the "girl" to meet him for the
purpose of having sex. Agents took him into custody on Clairmont
Road in Atlanta Tuesday.
Audet is charged with the use of an Interstate device to entice a
minor for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual activity.
The crime is a federal charge and carries a potential penalty of 15
years.
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Putting a 44 year-old man in prison for trying to have sex with a
13 year-old is a good thing. But, there is no actual 13 year-old in
this case.
Shouldn't the FBI be using actual 13 year-olds as bait, so there are
actual victims?
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EE
Take from no man what he hasn't agreed to give you.
Tom J
Eagle Eye wrote:
Another virtual criminal nabbed for thought crime.
This is truly a one-hand clapping scenario. Crimes, I always thought,
were the product of (1) motive and (2) opportunity. Here I gather the FBI
provided the "virtual" opportunity, offering the guy the chance to screw
up. In doing so, they may have behaved in a manner in which no actual 13
year-old girl, or virtually no actual 13 year-old girl, would have
behaved.
So we could ask - did he commit a crime? I don't think so*, since no
actual 13 year-old was harmed. He did, presumably, intend to commit a
crime. Then we could ask - is he is a danger to society? Maybe he is,
maybe not- it depends I suppose on whether a real 13 year-old girl might
have been taken in by his pretense and put herself at risk. Who will
judge that?
*However, I'm not a lawyer.
I've learned here not to question these things here on usenet since there
is no limit to the number of people who will jump up and down like
monkeys and say I am a "child molester" for so doing. So I will side with
the FBI. I will leave it for others to raise these silly "civil liberty"
concerns. I just want to nab the criminals. Officially my stance is this:
"WHEW!! Another CHILD MOLESTER off the STREETS!" Go for it, FBI!!
Oh, one more thing. If the FBI used a real 13 year-old girl in some way,
I would think that they were guilty of child molestation. I don't think I
would be alone in this judgement. Ironic, isn't it?
Tom J
Evidence based reasoning