“It’s not easy to be black, Jamaican, a Jehovah’s Witness and gay in Torrington, Connecticut,” said Allie Morrissey, a friend of Malcolm’s.. he had come to Bristol to meet someone younger, purportedly a 14-year-old boy “going on 15,” ...When Malcolm arrived, he found that there was no boy — there was only POPSquad. For the 126th time in two years, the group — an acronym for Prey on Predators — had catfished a man on the internet, posing as an underage teen on hookup apps and luring him into a meetup
IOW, he was a pedophile.
In spinning Malcolm as the victim here, NBC tries their best to dance around this particular detail.