Long Beach, CALIFORNIA

Jan 3, 2007 - The article is entitled, "Sex predators, or just 'inept'? It's in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Long Beach, California.

NBC's Dateline "To Catch a Predator" netted 35 men in a sting last September. However, the 19 offenders sentenced so far have pleaded no contest to attempted lewd acts on a child and have received felony probation and time served as part of a plea deal offered by Long Beach Superior Court Judge Bradford Andrews. They have also been ordered to complete 60 days of community service with Caltrans and to register as sex offenders.

The sentences for other Dateline stings throughout California often face six to 12 months in jail plus fines. However, the Long Beach judge thinks have been little more than lonely, desperate people who took their fantasies too far.

[TT - It's long been our view that people don't get what they deserve, but what they tolerate.
In government, courts, schools, a media that thinks it's a game, or newspapers whose standards are so low they don't criticize or complain or reflect even minimal community standards.]