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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHmm....wonder how QAnon missed the sex trafficking at Sturgis.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sd/pr/nine-men-arrested-sex-trafficking-operationActing United States Dennis R. Holmes announced that the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted a joint sex trafficking operation during the 2021 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The operation began on August 6, 2021, and continued through August 12, 2021.
As a result, the following nine men were arrested and charged with a variety of offenses:
Alec Walker Daniel, 22, Rapid City, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
Alexander Wayne Basaldu, 35, Rapid City, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
Jesse James Young, 36, Rapid City, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
Joshua Robert Lehmann, 34, Rapid City, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
Christopher Thomas Dahl, 28, Wolcott, NY: Attempted Commercial Sex Trafficking of a Minor
Stephen Gregory Fontenot, 39, Black Hawk, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
Anthony James Kemp, 54, Spearfish, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
James Dean Hanapel, 20, Ellsworth AFB: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
Clayton John Paulson, 36, Spearfish, South Dakota: Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet
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OAITW r.2.0
(24,540 posts)Come to Sturgis and I will show you what my cycle horsepower is. Pathetic losers.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)why do so many grown men want to fuck children
ShazzieB
(16,472 posts)Pathetic wusses who can't handle a relationship with a real woman.
I'm being semi-facetious here, but I think there's some truth to this, that there is a type of man who lacks self-confidence such that he is apt to be intimidated by a grown woman with a mind of her own. Such an individual will sometimes be drawn toward young teenage girls, because he finds them to be less threatening and more easily dominated.
I've watched a lot of those To Catch a Predator shows and that's how a lot of those guys struck me, as guys who went after teenagers because they couldn't hack it with grown women. They weren't necessarily attracted to "children" per se, but to girls who were old enough to have the physical characteristics of women but young enough to be very inexperienced and easily impressed by an "older man" being interested in them. 😬
That's my theory, anyway. Feel free to accept or reject!
sheshe2
(83,842 posts)If it is a Q then:
RockRaven
(14,982 posts)You'll pad your resume every time.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Its horrific
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Just pathetic, desperate guys who believe everything they read on the internet. And cops, trained to lure them in and bust them.
Not a fan of entrapment of any kind, even of people I don't like.
Hope we're still friends.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Those men showed up at the appointed time and place (sometimes with flowers, candy or other things) for some reason. It wasn't a coincidence, and it wasn't because they wanted to rescue the little girls from a life of depravity.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)Theses creeps were looking for kids to have sex with, you think this was their first rodeo, and these poor lads were just caught up in the moment created by police? Disappointing bullshit excuse and sad to see it on DU. I'm glad this scum was prevented from fucking a child at least for that night. They'll be out on bail and back to trying to fuck a kid next chance they get.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)I'm not a total derelict here. You find an actual trafficker? Shit, the book at that mofo!
But the vast majority of these multi-agency, mass-roundup type of cases, there's no child fucking being prevented, because there was never any child to begin with.
I'm not making excuses for anyone, I'm just not a fan of police entrapment as a general rule.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)somewhere else. It just happened That particular night, they got caught. Guys like this go after kids not only on the internet. Some of them will have sob stories, but in reality, none of these guys are innocent victims of entrapment. They went looking to fuck kids and got caught. I'm glad they didn't get to fuck any kids this time around. Slimy creeps probably crawling with Covid, looking to get the whole Thrill of Sturgis. Makes me sick.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)lest it come off sounding like I think it's 'okay to fuck kids'.
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)is not entrapped, in my book. I mean, how are you convinced or manipulated into leaving your house to go see a girl under 14 years old?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)'Minor' in legal parlance is typically understood to be 'under 18'.
The term 'minor' is not synonymous with 13-14 year olds, nor are '13-14 year olds' mentioned anywhere in the link.
So, if I missed the reference to the 13 year olds, that's part of the disconnect here.
I might still philosophically disapprove of entrapment, but I wouldn't stick my nose out in response to an OP about someone getting busted for trying to sleep with a 13 year old FFS
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)I thought you were replying to that comment. In that show they're all under 14. Again, I'm sorry.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)leftstreet
(36,110 posts)all the planning, budget, executing between multiple agencies...while real trafficking involving actual victims was probably occurring at the same place/time
But that takes law enforcement actually working to protect the public, not just getting numbers and promotions
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)Sting operations are bad for many reasons. I just can not see a grown man being enticed to go meet a child under 14 unless he is has those interest.
leftstreet
(36,110 posts)Law enforcement budgets lookin good!
rpannier
(24,330 posts)James Dean Hanapel is totally f'd
relayerbob
(6,548 posts)No wait. Obama. That's it. Biden
orleans
(34,070 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)... weren't they?