For what it's worth, it appears that these guys were given bond of $40,000 to $50,000, meaning that they could either pay that, pay 10% (and lose it) to a bondsman, or stay in jail.

Also, their cars were all confiscated (used in the commission of a crime).

These ongoing shows are just a big joke.
Next season are they going to broadcast car crashes????
Chris Hansen must be embarrassed to have studied to be a journalist just for this.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15066391/

There's a new episode this friday 10/6. I missed the one from last week. :(

I guess they caught someone up here in Northern California.
They caught a former Chiron MD in this sting

Maurice Wolin, 48, Piedmont, physician
arrested in a Petaluma sting operation by NBC News’ program “Dateline NBC” as part of its series on sexual predators and is scheduled to be aired in two parts, with the first tentatively slated for Sept. 29


http://www1.arguscourier.com/apps/pb...EWS01/60905007

I believe this is the same guy who was practically crying in the preview for tomorrow's episode.

"Congressman Foley, please, have a seat. Care for a cookie......?"

(Don't really watch the show, but on O&A this AM they were riffing about how every perp starts munching on the cookies.....?)

they had the cool doctor from SF on today

i wonder if his wife bailed him out after she found out what he was arrested for

anyone catch his name?

I wonder when they are going to do one on Congressman Foley?

(sorry I totally could not help myself.)

Yikes the preview for the next one... catching the same guy for a second time...

"Oops"

Tonight NBC has a new episode of "Law And Order" with a plot that is based on this type of TV show.

Yeah, I am a male but just to keep things in perspective.

I am mature and got to admit I enjoy the female form but the idea of having sex with a 13 year old, indeed at my age even with a 25 year old, never occurs to me. Give me a good looking 40 something anyday.

When you watch this show they always reports "loads" of guys jumping at the chance to have sex/talk sex with a young minor child which might leave some to believe a large percentage of males would do this sort of thing.

Yeah, a lot of sicko's but in a nation where you have fifty million plus mature males you are bound to have a few sicko's.

There are tens of thousand perhaps even a million but that is still "only" 2% of the mature male population.

Something is terribly wrong with these guys in the upstairs department. Whenever I watch when the fifty something balding 50 lb overweight guy gets out of his family vehicle I always wonder "What on earth leads you to believe a 13 year old hottie wants YOU to be her first?"

As far as Dr. Wolin is concerned I would have loved to be a fly listening to the conversation (icy silence?) on the ride back home from the jail house.

But I guess he is lucky because if I did something that stupid my wife would just let me rot.

Am I nuts or....

I applaud the efforts of Chris Hanson and his crew to exposing online predators of minors. I usually have no problem with the on-screen interviews and the later arrest and questioning.

For some reason, tonight's show rang differently for me. They made a pretty big deal about there being three military men who showed up at their latest house. Later in the show, the three men were caught on camera as usual, but "Dateline" chose to dwell -- for almost two full segments -- on a sergeant who just came back from a two year tour in Iraq. After a few minutes, the Chris Hanson interview in the kitchen became excruciating to watch. The man ended up kneeling on the kitchen floor, in tears, begging Chris Hanson not to ruin his life. He was, of course, arrested and led away. Commercial break and we're back to this same man now being questioned by police. I don't know how long that segment actually lasted, but it felt like forever.

My issue is that even though I understand, and agree with, the need to get these men off the internet and out of the homes of minors, home alone, I found it mean spirited for "Dateline" to spend an inordinate amount of time on the sergeant that had just served this country for two years in a war.

I think he should have been arrested and charged and then serve a sentence -- I don't think it was necessary to vilify the man on national television.

Like I said, maybe I'm nuts....

Was this a new episode? If so, why air it on a graveyard night when this series gets some decent ratings for NBC which needs 'em badly?

Yes, god forbid we say anything bad about any soldier, even if that person is a child predator.... I think once you have a clear intention of molesting a child, anything good you've done in the past doesn't matter anymore.

It's not like Chris Hansens and crew were trying to get military people. However, when they showed up it made a more intersting story, based on "military code and honor", than a truck driver or nerdy computer geek.

It was a repeat of an episode that aired back on Sept 22. I wish I had known it was going to be on last night for I missed seeing it the first time it aired, but they do show a good deal of this episode in the clips they have online so I finally got around seeing it.

It's back again with a brand new episode.

"To Catch a Predator" returns to primetime Jan. 30 with Chris Hansen traveling to Long Beach, Calif., reporting on the first of three more investigations. Watch a preview of Tuesday's broadcast
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?...d/3032600/&fg=

rotfl they catch somebody a SECOND time. rotfl

I can't wait for this.

is it the idiot doctor from SF?

Not him. He's some young guy, who, like the other guy they busted a second time in an earlier episode, seems to be a little slow, which could explain why he would fall for the trap again.

After catching someone twice in 1 episode nothing will surprise me again.

Wow this decoy is F'n up pretty bad.

That guy should be saying "I'm sorry I was here for the naked boys, I should not be arrested"

I was laughing my ass off when the guy got tasered...what the hell was he thinking? :hscratch:

About the guy who they caught a 2nd time; They say it was a day after his court date. What does that say about our justice system? :rolleyes:

I think Chris Hansen and he had just a brief discussion about it and it was something to the effect that it was reset for yet another court date.

I wonder how many of these guys are given actual jail sentences.