Murphy’s To Catch a Predator cases canned by Collin DA

Sanders Kaufman says:

There is nothing "questionable" about paying the stingers who sting the pedophiles.

In fact, Collin County's Republican DA didn't provide ANY legal reason for refusing to prosecute the pedophiles.

He was simply reacting to that Republican community's outrage at having been identified AGAIN as a hotbed of pedophilia.

This was a Public Relations move, not a law enforcement one. If those several dozen cases had made it to trial, then this Republican community would be AGAIN the focus of national attention for its high level of pedophile activity... and rightly so.

The DA gave the Catholic pedophiles got a free pass for what they've done. Now some more pedophiles have been given a free pass.

That says a lot about what that Republican community thinks about their own children.

Dylan Cave says:

Let there be no sympathy for those that prey on children. However enforcement of the law should be left to the professionals. I don't like to see the police teaming up with the media to catch criminals; if for no other reason than that they might get away with it because they'll get off in court.

Sanders Kaufman says:

All of the organizations involved were very professional. Their successes are well-documented, and happened in almost every area of the country.

Perhaps you meant to say that law-enforcement should be left up to the "government"?

Dylan Cave says:

No, I meant what I said.

Sanders Kaufman says:

Then you are ok with the fact that these stingers were ALL professionals, eh?

Sanders Kaufman says:

[delete this, please?] Morren - I got your email about signal-to-noise.

In my defense, I've mostly just RESPONDED to posts - in order to avoid this very problem. In fact, most of my activity today has been in response to requests for more info from me.

Still - I'll honor your request, and stop posting so much... but it sux that I gotta.

David Gouldin says:

Something definitely stinks here. Based on the group's track record, how can we be expected to believe that they refused to testify or answer the DA's questions? If this was indeed a "Public Relations move", it's a very poor one that has resulted in much more negative publicity than successful prosecution would have.