"Girl" Interrupted: Online teen was really cop in sex sting

[Jazzy]

When 28-year-old Daniel Eugene Kirschner went to the parking lot of the Placer County Jail in Northern California Tuesday, authorities say he was expecting to meet up with a 13-year-old girl.

But instead, the man who thought he'd been corresponding online for months with a minor met with a surprise - police officers who arrested him, reports CBS Sacramento

Detectives say they had been chatting with Kirschner since Februrary, ever since he had placed an ad that he was looking for a girlfriend.

CBS Sacramento says an undercover detective responded to that ad, and that Kirschner continued to correspond with the "girl" even after she said she was only 13-years-old.

Kirschner reportedly agreed to meet up with the purported object of his desire Tuesday after the "girl" said she would be at the jail for a family friend's court appearance.

As soon as Kirschner showed up he was arrested, and was walked inside the jail on charges of communicating with a minor with the intent of committing a sexual act, and attempted lewd and lascivious acts with someone under 14.

Kirschner made bail and is due to be arraigned Aug. 4.

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Questions:

1. Do you consider this police entrapment?
2. Is communicating with a minor a crime?

 

[DrLeftover]

AGES ago, before AlGore invented the Internet.....

Back in the days of dial up BBS-ing, the Sysop of a local multiline service had heard that some users were 'chatting' in inappropriate ways with minors on the board.

There were two users on the board who were in 'law enforcement' so he approached us in secret to sign up as 'kids' and then just, once in awhile, log on with that account, and play games, and 'act like a kid' and if somebody said something that they shouldn't to us, to forward it to him.

I did.

You would be disgusted with what some people send "out of the blue" to those whom they think are children.

Some of those requests he forwarded to the Attorney General's office.