Posted on 09/04/2018 3:11:41 PM PDT by markomalley
Sheriff Mike Williams announced Tuesday the arrests of 17 men accused of soliciting underage girls and boys to arrange to meet in Jacksonville for sex. Two more arrests are pending.
Williams said these men thought they were talking to 13- or 14-year-old girls or boys in chat rooms and other online forums. When they went to meet their victims, the men were met by Jacksonville Sheriff's Office detectives.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office called it Operation DUVAL, standing for Disrupting Underage Virtual Abuse Locally. The teamed with nearly a dozen other law enforcement agencies in the trolling sting.
The men accused range in age from 19 to 67. Most of them lived in Jacksonville, but some traveled from out of state or Orlando thinking they were meeting a child for sex. they were meeting Some of them had no prior criminal histories. One was a convicted sexual offender.
One of the men, Edward Arthur Stanley, 60, is a victim advocate in North Carolina who was in Jacksonville for a Department of Defense victim advocate conference. Police said he tried to meet at a 14-year-old girl for sex.
"I think theres a drive in some of these people, as evil as it is, that they cannot control," Williams said.
The sheriff said this should serve as a reminder to all parents to warn their children about predators and monitor where they are going and who they are talking to online.
One of those arrested was a 30-year-old Navy lieutenant who was picked up by Clay County deputies last Thursday. Michael McNeil was accused of trying to meet 12-year-old deaf girl for sex.
I’ll bet that could leave someone with a frilly dilly.
on top of being disgusting- how weird that he wanted a deaf child?! why??? never mind, if you can figure it out, don’t tell me.
Even we strangers are supposed to die for someone elses kids.
There is a loss of values when sick people seek to exploit children for their own perverted ends.
easier than just becoming a priest, I guess?
“on top of being disgusting- how weird that he wanted a deaf child?! why??”
The girl didn’t actually exist and it was a sting operation. IMO they wanted to sensationalize the case to make it look worse and lock in a jury. Unnecessary and the case could be thrown out due to that.
I hope they plastered their photos on the front page of the newspapers.
I am old enough to have seen far too much in this country for years.
I truly am convinced that there are 2 groups of criminals that you can NEVER change. Never enough money. Never enough ‘therapy’. NEVER enough anything.
Sexual predators-—who go after all ages-—not just kids.
Firebugs.
Just kill them. They are broken at birth & they will NEVER change.
Just kill them.
Which they ought to do. Cull the perv herd.
I thought everyone knew by now that on the internet, 15 y/o girls that are interested in older men are all cops.
I didn’t read the article, but I wanted to see the face of this dumb, exploitative predator. A line from an article about him:
Suspect Michael McNeil, 30, solicited sex through online communications with an undercover detective — whom he thought was the guardian of a 12-year-old deaf girl, investigators said.
Being a father himself, he thought nothing of somebody else putting a handicapped 12yo up for that. So many layers of ick in his story. I feel sorry for his wife and hope that she has already called a divorce attorney.
Well, this dumbass lieutenant may dodge a bullet in the civilian courts but he'll still face a military court. And even if he dodges that bullet as well (fat chance), he's still a 30-year old naval officer, married with a son, who drove from Mayport to Orange Park to f*** a 12-year old deaf girl. His name and face are all over the internet and everyone in the Navy knows who he is.
He's ruined.
Well, you could be from a country immediately to our south where the age of consent is 14.
Or you could be from a certain religion where that most perfect of all men married a six year old. (To be fair he only 'thighed' her until she was nine...)
Or you could be lust blinded...
If there were over 18 of them, would that make it alright in the eyes of a Florida jury?
If liberals ran “the show” unopposed, pedophilia would have been legalized decades ago.
Yes, I think it is the next thing that will be pushed forward for ‘normalization’. In part to lay the foundation for lowering the voting age to sixteen. Crazy I know but how many years ago was it when queer sex was illegal and homos were routinely prosecuted and faced the same array of negative consequences pedos do today.
That is just so sick. So sick. How can you take everything youve achieved and ruin it? Ruin your childs life? And of course ruin the 12 year old disabled kids life. Why???
I also knew someone like this. He was always holding small public offices. He became the head of animal control or something, then absconded with all the donations to the shelter, said he was on an official trip and instead went to Thailand to screw little kids. He had several children of his own as well. Why???
Low blow - but I was thinking of asking if the perps were wearing their amices or if they were in mufti....
Luckily/thankfully our President is out in front of this epidemic. He is cleaning house of these scumbags....
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