I’m sure you have all seen the Dateline show “To Catch a Predator”. What I bet you haven’t seen is the chaos that erupted after the Texas edition of the show.

The guy that approved the show in Murphy, Texas, lost his job soon after the sting. The district attorney will not prosecute any of the men saying many of the cases were “tainted by the involvement of amateurs” and the whole thing just reeks of entrapment.

Some of the suspects never even showed up at the sting house after chatting with decoys online. One of them was Louis Conradt Jr., an assistant prosecutor from a neighboring county.

When police and the Dateline camera crew went knocking on his door to arrest him, Conradt shot and killed himself.

I bet you won’t see that footage on Dateline.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not siding with these pedophiles, but there is a difference between getting them put away and making a sitcom out of it.

What are your thoughts?

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