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I'm confused. I thought they said on the dateline show that the group that assisted NBC was organized exactly to do this type of sting and feed information to police for prosecution. And I thought they provided all the data to the police.

And I thought they said that it was a crime to merely send e-mails like the e-mails that were sent, even if the person you send them to is old enough, if it can be shown you thought they were younger (a law written obviously to allow police to conduct stings).

So I assumed they would be prosecuted under that law.

I told my daughter about that show just to re-inforce why we don't let her use chat rooms.

My wife and I watched that show "on and off" because we couldn't really stand the show but wanted to understand the issue. You would think that some of those people, having appeared on TV, would be experiencing some difficulty.

That one guy they caught twice was scary. I think he's the one who stripped in the garage.

I share your confusion and am also perplexed. That's why I posted this because, apparently contrary to what you were led to believe, the authorities do not ever charge what appears to be the large majority of pervs flushed out this way. This article is just full of reasons why they can't pursue these people and it is just more of the same mumbo jumbo from these bureaucratic types all to the detriment of Public Safety - Their reason for being in the first place..