To Catch a Predator: Do I look stupid to you? Part 1 (Victor Wells)

Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator
Chris Hansen and Perverted-Justice demonstrate the danger children face when it comes to online chatting and catch Victor Wells, a 49-year-old man.

Quotes:

Hansen: Why don't you come over here and have a seat, please?
Hansen: On the stool, if you would.
Hansen: What do you have in your bag, there?
Wells: A camera.
Hansen: A camera? And what were you planning on taking pictures of tonight?
Wells: She just wanted some pictures for her profile.
Hansen: Her profile?
Wells: Right.
Hansen: And, who is she?
Wells: I would say Beth.

Hansen: And you were here to see Beth?
Wells: Right.
Hansen: And, how old is Beth?
Wells: I... I'm guessing she's older than 12.
Hansen: You're guessing?
Wells: Well, yeah.
Hansen: Well, why would you guess that when she told you so many times that in fact she is 12.
Wells: Because, I didn't believe her.
Hansen: Why wouldn't you believe her?
Wells: Because, what 12-year-old's gonna go in a chatroom on yahoo and do this?
Hansen: Did you look at her profile picture?
Wells: Well, just like a lot of other 18-year-old and above, you know, they put photo...
Hansen: Did you think the photo to be... 18? (Unsure of this one)
Wells : No, I assumed it was a fake one.
Hansen: A fake one. Now, why would you think that, Victor?
Wells: Because, a lot of people in the chatroom do that.
Hansen: But, I'm confused. If somebody tells they're 12.
Wells: Well, I don't believe it because I was in an adult chatroom.
Hansen: But, there's nothing to stop them from going into that chatroom.
Wells: Humm... I think there's an age requirement.
Hansen: But, it's not enforced is what I'm saying. Why would you even mess around with somebody who says they are 12?
Wells: Because, I didn't think they were.
Hansen: Again, you've not given me a good reason why you wouldn't think that if somebody tells you over and over again they're 12 and there's a picture in their profile that is unmistakenly underaged.
Wells: Because, I ... lot of people lie on their profiles.
Hansen: You start out, in your chatlog, saying that you're a little bit concerned because she's so young.
Hansen (reading from chatlog): Little young for this room... Or your a cop trying book others or a parent setting up others

Hansen (reading from chatlog): Just asking if you 12 or an adult acting as 12.
Beth: I already told you, I said I'm 12.

Wells: I just wanted to bring her lunch and take a couple of pictures for her profile.

Hansen: Now, if you had younger kids, would you be comfortable with a grown adult coming into the home when one of the children was home alone if that child was 12 years old?
Wells: No, obviously, I would say no.
Hansen: So, why is it okay for you to do it?
Wells: I ... really don't have a good answer. Just, bad judgement on my part.
Wells: I'm thinking, you know, she's older than, you know, 18 and, you know, just bad judgement on my part at that time.
Hansen: But you aknowledge over and over again that she's 12, you're concerned about it: what are you doing on the internet?
Wells: Just.. Just a roleplaying, a fantasy thing. That's all that was.
Hansen: Just a roleplaying fantasy thing.
Wells: I assume that's what going on here.
Hansen: But how can you assume that?
Wells: Because it's...
Hansen: What evidence did she give you that in fact she was not 12 years old?
Wells: She gave no evidence of either way.
Hansen: Then how... well, she said over and over that she was 12.

Hansen: So after you're all concerned of her being 12, your tongue shifts and you talk about...
Wells: Personal things.
Hansen: Personal things. You ask her if she's looking for some company for the week-end.
Wells: For the week-end? I don't think I ever asked...

Hansen: (Reading from chatlog): Looking for some company for the week-end?
Decoy: Maybe some for today.

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[NurseWalczak]

@xtremeone4 So which episode were you on?

[DarKNeSSCaLLeD22]

Going to molest a kid?

Make it a Mike's!

[k129h8]

damn,what if that dude pulls out a gun from the camera bag?! wtf

[TheSkylur44]

@glopz1 These are NOT "teen boys" coming to fuck a 13 year old, these are MEN who are old enough to know better. Now seriously, kill yourself. Teens have sex with other teens, not with digusting old pissholes.

[TheSkylur44]

@SchoolOfMugen "MAY NOT HAVE DONE???" Are you fucking KIDDING me? Of COURSE they would have done it, many of them drive for hours to fuck what they think is a 13 year old child! Obviously you're a predator yourself, no decent person wuld even think such a thing. Get help, or kill yourself.

[TheSkylur44]

@trevanismith No, it is not entrapment; no one forces these assholes to troll for children to fuck and no one holds a gun to their head to show up with condoms and booze.

[TheSkylur44]

The ONLY way to stop these pricks is to shoot them min the head at close range. Problem solved.

[CYMRUTROLL2]

Why do these guys go after teens? under 10s are much tighter

[TMSGameStudios]

And the search for xtremeone4's comment begins...

[gameshowluvr86]

@DarKNeSSCaLLeD22 LMAO!!!

[TolSatha]

@novawave333 Your gonna laugh when someone gets a deadly disease that kills hundreds every year, and youre saying I am "fucking sick"?

[RageAgainstNWO]

@trevanismith are you fucking stupid? There's no hint of roleplaying going on, they say they are minors, and the molester shows up. Go cry for child molesters more, idiot.