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🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's abuse, predatory behavior, it's case after case of knowing exactly who to target |
0:07.6 | so that victim would be the most vulnerable and unlikely to either be believed or to even report what happened in the first place. |
0:17.0 | Why don't you have a seat? |
0:20.0 | Now that's the classic catchphrase. On my impression thereof of today's guest a long time |
0:25.5 | hero of mine is Chris Hansen. For those of you who don't know Chris is a huge star whose |
0:30.3 | show to catch a predator was massive it was a massive hit and I used to sit and watch it with my brother as a teenager |
0:36.2 | I mean it's actually quite morose really but the concept is that Chris works with police to catch, you guessed it, sexual predators. |
0:45.0 | Now what they did is they set up a decoy in a chat room who was supposed to be a 12 or 13 year old boy or girl. |
0:52.0 | And then that imaginary child, which is actually police, |
0:54.8 | would talk with predators on chat rooms and stuff for some time, establishing sufficient |
0:59.7 | evidence so that the predator once caught had made their intentions clear in writing and |
1:04.8 | couldn't then pretend that they didn't know the child's age. |
1:07.4 | So they got all the proof, all the evidence. |
1:09.4 | These men would then turn up at the house and talk with an 18 year old actor who looked like a |
1:15.1 | young boy or girl and then that actor or decoy would step out and in comes Chris. |
1:21.0 | Why don't you have a seat, Chris would say, and like magic, these guys would just |
1:26.6 | sit down and start to reveal everything to him, often maybe unaware they're being filmed |
1:31.7 | or unaware the police are outside, |
1:33.7 | while presenter Chris gets more and more valuable information out of them, |
1:38.4 | you know, in order to get them charged and sentenced. |
1:41.5 | Then the police team moves in, arrests the man, you know, |
1:45.6 | and Chris's ability to get people to sit down and talk to him is so, it's |
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