People who knew men on "To Catch A Predator" before the show, what were they like?

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[@x.SE7EN.x314]

Nickelodeon stating they have “zero tolerance for any misdeeds involving children” is the best joke I’ve heard all week😂

[@SomeGaymerNerd]

especially considering john k, creator of ren and stimpy 💀

[@historianKelly]

Max (formerly HBO Max) is set to air a special series starting March 17 (2024) about the child predators and the behind-the-scenes problems with predatory behavior at Nickelodeon. From their trailer, it seems that some of the survivors are telling their stories in public for the first time, and some are still so traumatized, they will not be revealing their identities - that's just my impression from the trailer, and I may be wrong about that second part, but they did allude to the idea that some of these stories have never been told before.

[@garganrose]

Yeah, especially considering that I once heard that they ended up hiring that guy back.

[@Digyaldemsuga]

Dan Schneider

[@GamingDrummer89]

I was gonna say, they should run this same background check on Dan Schneider....guy's sketchy as heck and there's video footage of some of his behavior, too.

[@aivlysplath]

Guess Nickelodeon just “didn’t know” about the disgusting acts of Dan Schneider 🙄😒😤

[@jenerin905]

People who make others a lot of money tend to get a pass.

[@CrytoZ_ButCool]

hush money, amigo hush money

[@buckiemohawk3643]

Dan was really good at getting fetish acts disguised on tv. He was also like a lot of the producers of the time that were total aholes and bullies because the people above them were much worse

[@kaosforever2008]

Viacom paid him to leave from what I read

[@buckiemohawk3643]

he was paid off. He was just a total jerk to work for... and yeah the feet stuff is creepy and done for his own amusement but he just one in a literal sea of snakes@@kaosforever2008

[@witchy90210]

In families "no one knew" is often code for "we ignore it" because they think its better to keep up appearances and "not ruin the family" by aknowledging whats happening.

[@monal3544]

Do you have any advice for victims in this kind of situation?

[@witchy90210]

@@emmet_xrcmiy3 I have only seen it so much in cases I see in videos, its just so horrible. How families will act to defend the cumprit honestly because of fear of what could happen if the secret got out is just disgusting. I am so sorry that anyone has to go through that.

[@stacyfincher]

I have some advice based on actual experience. Cut ties with all of the, I know it sounds harsh but trust me you will be emotionally better for it. Also, write letters to everyone that had a hand in hurting you and get everything and mean EVERYTHING out in them. You don't have to mail them or give them to the people but you will be surprised how good it feels to get it out. And lastly forgive but don't forget, the only thing you are accomplishing by carrying around hurt and anger is giving them power over your life. I hope some of this helps you. ❤​@@monal3544

[@Eva-nv5lw]

My family lore had a great great uncle or something, rumor was he touched the kids. He disappeared. Family never talked about it again. In this case it was never talked about again, but for good reason,

[@holliepopstudiosinc7222]

That may be true sometimes, but I wouldn't be as bold as to just say that it's OFTEN. Because that is far from true. My own daughter came to me last summer, to tell me that she's been sexually abused (my words not hers) she was 11 when she told me, and she thinks she was about 6 or 7 when this happened, multiple times. Now when I tell you that I was SHOCKED I'm not exaggerating at all. It actually terrifies me to the core, how there were ZERO hints to this happening. This guy had known my child since before she was born. My daughter grew up with this guys son, he was close to our family. This was her dads best f-ing friend! He was like an uncle to my child, and she called him "uncle T*****" He even lived with my daughter and her dad for a few years (apparently the abuse didnt start until after that though) But when I say none of us NOONE suspected a thing, I mean it. Even my mother who is always on gaurd for creeps due to her abuse in childhood, would never have thought that this guy specifically would have ever done this. It scares me so much, because had you asked me before my daughter told me, if I trusted this guy alone with my kids, I would have asked you if you were crazy. I would have said "100% why wouldnt I? Are you nuts of course i do" and that is even knowing the statistics of it almost always being a family member or close friend. I had no idea that he had done this to my child, if i had it would never have happened. If my kids dad had seen ANY even slightly strange behaviors, he would have killed this guy. There were NO signs AT ALL. So please before you claim that most people just ignore it, think twice because there isnt always an obvious thing to be ignored. I pray that you NEVER have to go through finding out that you trusted the wrong person near your child. Because I dont think any of us will ever forgive ourselves for the things we didnt see, the abuse we didnt stop, because he knew EXACTLY how to blend in and not raise any suspension.

[@lalalalaaAa123]

Predators only act like predators ✨to their prey✨. “I never saw any signs!!” Why would you? You’re not his prey. You wouldn’t ever think of a blue jay as being a threat, because you’re not a worm. The moral of the story is: don’t ever disregard a victims story of your friend/family member/acquaintance hurting them just because YOU have never been their choice of victim.

[@hwgray]

"Predators only act like predators to their prey." Tell it! That's true of other kinds of abusers, too.

[@Fairiegurl101]

@@hwgray "That's true of other kinds of abusers" yeah, that's what made it so hard for me to talk about the neglect and abuse I suffered at the hands of my mom. She was a single parent (father died when I was 8) and she was the "cool mom" who let me and my friends eat in the living room (she was too lazy to clean off the dining room table), stay up late during sleep overs (she would pass out around 7pm from pulling an all nighter reading her bible, or just stay up all night reading said bible and ignore us kids), and was otherwise very lenient... when other people were watching. As soon as the door closed behind my friends backs, it was endless screaming and berating about what a mess the house was (immediately after my messy friends left because, hey, your mom is the "cool mom" who doesn't get mad at messes!) and telling me that if I wanted to have dinner that night, I'd have to make it myself because she "wasn't hungry" (she did a LOT of fasting and prayer) or because I was such a bad kid that I didn't deserve her cooking for me. Long story short, when I'd complain about my mom to said friends, they would disparage me by saying things like "but your mom is so cool! That doesn't sound like her at all. My mom/dad is waaaaaay worse and [describes something a normal parent would do to discipline their kid]" And don't get me started on the quote unquote "trusted" adults I tried to get help from. "You're over reacting. Your mom loves you. You have to understand that she's going through a lot, too. This isn't just about you." Listen. When. Kids. Say. They. Are. Abused. Period.

[@Clover298]

I do not wish to discredit anyone here, but I would like to state that there are always signs, even if they’re very hard to find, that someone is a predator/abuser. Always keep your eye on people, you never know what people may be hiding and who may need help.

[@erikeriks]

That is actually a very good point that I'm going to be stealing in a lot of conversations I'm in from now on.

[@hannahsings19]

My ex step dad was caught by Truckers Against Predators a few years ago. Im not sure if you can find the video, but he actually shits himself during the sting 😂😂😂😂😂

[@noracola5285]

I wish I had an ex stepdad 😞

[@elyaqui5324]

Did you grow up with "Shits in pants"? Lol If so, did you suspect he was a Sick Shite?

[@elyaqui5324]

​@@noracola5285what? Dude what the Fu*k is wrong with you?

[@ChaosTheoriesLux]

Wow! Yall are OK though? I know some of these things can drag a family thru some s*it. A family member being arrested for something horrific.

[@danniellesloane]

Sending love to you ​@@noracola5285

[@kimmiramone]

Thank you for pointing out the thing about underage assault. I was assaulted by a 19 yr old when I was 14. He groomed me so I didnt really know it was assault, but it was.

[@scrumpcity]

i’m really sorry this happened to you, and I hope you’re doing much better now.

[@kimmiramone]

@scrumpcity Thank you. I am a 58 yr old grandmother of 2 now. Funny how stuff stays with you.

[@evangelynecollins]

This happened to me too, I was 15 and he claimed to be 19. I didn't find out that he was actually in his 20s until I was 18

[@cjb2749]

When I was in school, junior and senior guys targeting the freshmen ("fresh meat") girls was accepted as typical🤢 It was so commonplace, it didn't even occur to me question it until years later, shortly after I found out that I was pregnant with a baby girl.

[@nereaa7896]

Hi, im curious about what you meant with grooming and that you did not know it was an assault. Was it that you did not know what sex was? Or are you saying it was an assault because you were under the age of consent? English is not my first languaje, sorry. I hope i wasnt rude, it was not my intention

[@insanecurity]

Dude I can’t tell the stories apart while listening because you start a new one in the same breath you end the last one 😭

[@dcfuksurmom]

he literally says the story number in between them

[@mariannaatrash9410]

Agreed! Wish we had a lil transition music. Since a lot of us are listening while doing tasks, I definitely miss the “story 5”. Overall great video & content, I think some of us just need more transitions

[@SaraRankins.]

He says the story numbers

[@johnnyboygriffin5764]

It's an AI doing the voice

[@SaraRankins.]

@@johnnyboygriffin5764 no this is a real person

[@texavery5695]

At one time my cousin had a boyfriend, around the time I was 11 or 12, and the family made sure that me and all the younger cousins knew that his name was Chester the Molester,. The whole family called him that straight to his face until eventually she broke up with him. Turns out that's exactly who he was

[@user-gk4cc1bi2m]

Ok, your family is based and your younger cousins won the lottery.

[@Ryukikon]

?? Was she 11?? This story has many holes. I am confused?

[@StephBer1]

@@Ryukikon Reread it. The writer was 11 or 12, not the cousin.

[@cosmosadorabilis7677]

Your family did amazing!

[@aegrisomnia]

Ask reddit a question. 95% percent of answers. "Not actually what you asked for, but...."

[@railroadforest30]

Quora is even worse

[@Adde-hy7wx]

Well, in reality 80% of people have nothing to add, 19,5% have something somewhat related to add, and maybe 0,5% can answer directly. So the result is that most answers are just the "somewhat" related ones.

[@killerbeanmachine]

I really don't know why they don't give much longer sentences for child predators. I was called into jury duty about a week ago and the case ended up being about "sexual misconduct with a child". (I live in Texas btw) Before they picked the jury, they went over all the "you can't be bias" and instructional stuff, as they always do. But then they got to the prison sentence, the options were: "5-20 years in prison or probation" Those were the only options. Everyone immediately voted out probation. I wanted more than 20 years, but that just wasn't an option. I didn't get picked for the Jury so I don't know how it ended. Sadly, most predators get only 1-5 years, and they often re-offend many times and get the same sentence. They won't be permanently put in prison till they have done it multiple times and the damage is already done to multiple kids. I get innocent until proven guilty, its just insane how they expect a little kid to get proof that this happened to them, and then they are expected to stand in front of strangers in a court and talk about what happened to them in detail. No wonder they don't always come forward, thats terrifying.

[@MeowthGamer19]

I think they already get harsh sentences. I think probation doesn’t solves anything neither does 5-20 years. If it were up to me I’d incorporate Canada’s system, give non violent sexual predators free but state mandated therapy for 2 years, a trade or vocational school option to better themselves & mental health checks every month for 2 years.

[@mywingsareyours]

Sex offenses in general don't get super long sentences, a lot of the time they just get parol

[@laer.393]

@@MeowthGamer19wtf so instead of consequences they get therapy and an education??? so there are just no repercussions for literally assaulting another human being for sick sadistic purposes??

[@krislarsen6546]

Actually the reoffending thing is kind of a myth well somewhat of a myth. The reoffending rates for sex offenders is like 5 to 6% for sex crimes but they have like a 60% rate for breaking their probation. Rightfully restrictive probation.

[@rene3759]

@@MeowthGamer19 it does solve them not re offending. psychologsist have said time and time again that sexual offenders d have almost a 0 chance of rehabilitation. they have 0 remorse for what they do or have done or want to do. they dont see their victims as human beings so they feel no remorse if anything they might feel anger at their victims for reporting them and the chance of them getting revenge is high. the sentencing is not harsh enough. sentencing should not just be about the perpetrator but also about the victim. its about justice the victim and potential victims need to be safe and also society. there are places where people and their kids and women cant live in peace and freedom becuase they need to navigate the risk and threat that predators are in their communities. 2 years is too short of a time to deal with the mental problems that these type of criminals have. The "harsh" sentencing they get is NOTHING compared to the damage that they create in a persons life or the community. Also what the heck is a "non violent" sexual predator? all sexual assault/abuse is violence. Vocational school or a trade does not make a person better themselves in how they treat others. There are predators in all kinds of vocational fields from politicians, bloody presidents to teachers, doctors, pastors, office workers, military, police offiers, lawyers etc. Predators getting job means nothing in terms of if they will harm others or not. Most of the times they even use those jobs to get away with harming others or accessing victim. like the ones who become teachers to get access to children, or pastors to get the social buff and image, or lawyers and police offers to have their corrupot buddy system to protect them from consequences. The very fact that predators get awawy with a slap on their wrist is the direct involvement of law enforment who are predators and governance who are predators affecting the laws and making it easier and not a problem at all for predators to harm people and get away with it easily. Sexual predators have no buisness being around any human beings. They are parasites and cancer to humanity in every sense of the word

[@AliciaGuitar]

I went to a school that hired a principal after he impregnated a student at another school. They also kept a teacher after he was arrested for trying to solicit a 12 year old. No one wanted to take his class, and the school forced ppl. He invited the boys to his house for "tutoring" and to this day he still teaches kids dancing and is a "pillar of the community" 😡

[@ZalemMoon]

You went to a school that hired a principal after he impregnated a student at another school??? How is he not in jail?

[@mikeyhatch]

​​@@ZalemMoon At the highschool I just graduated from one of our gym teachers impregnated a 16 year old girl. Another teacher who called gay kids slurs and threw staplers at them. And one that I personally reported because he was sexually harassing me and could have easily been fired because he wasn't even done his trial period yet. They kept all three of them. There are plenty more shitty teachers too because my area is shit I WISH I was lying but this isn't that uncommon

[@brynnie_winnie]

@@ZalemMoon fucked up justice system most likely

[@dynogamergurl]

The red dead redemption horse trails are far better to enjoy the stories with. As pretty as the Minecraft parkour is I find it a bit nauseating at times

[@russiaspyromaniac2423]

Yeah too much movement this is nice :)

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

Yeah, exactly. I mostly listen in the background of working, but occasionally I'll look over and it's like BAM colour and movement. This is more calming.

[@theConquerersMama]

Thank you I was wondering what game it was. My son actually looked over to follow the horse.

[@ma13volent]

Dude I thought I was the only one. Have to just close up my laptop cuz I get so nauseous while watching MC Parkour stories

[@dynogamergurl]

@@ma13volent I normally don’t get dizzy or nauseous from those types of videos idk if maybe it was the colors of the park or or if there was like a wide angle fish eye effect on it. But there was some about them that made the room spinny 😅

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

Am I having a stroke? I'm at 3:50 and I swear the same thing was said 3 or 4 times

[@d.asiatp]

had to look for this comment, im like what the f.

[@kardoxfabricanus7590]

Yep can confirm that was a very weird edit or lack of edit or whatever.

[@nixonfleurimond2600]

You’re not having a stroke buddy boy😭

[@mesomeone8684]

Yes

[@VileStinkySwine]

It happens a lot sometimes

[@Grey0618]

Almost a decade ago I was painting houses for a living with my brother & his crew. One day bro & I were discussing TCAP and one of the guys had never heard if it before so we explained the premise. Dude then used ALL of his data for the month over lunch binging clips 😂

[@probrickgamer]

That's anybody reaction after watching 5 minutes. Not sure why it is so addictive

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

I was getting worried halfway through this story lol

[@caleb_too]

My Grand Aunts’ Son (My Fathers’ Cousin) wasn’t technically featured on this specific show, but they had an episode of him on the KZbin channel “Predator Poachers” a month back. He was found to have 6 GB’s of child you know what on his phone. Aswell as admitting to sexually assaulting the kids he babysat. He admitted to being child you know what addict for about 15 years. Which really nerves me because he was at every single family gathering. He’d always be by the kids. He never touched us or anything but he was creepy. He was nice but also creepy. He messed up his life around 2021. He got divorced and was homeless for about a week before living in the basement of my great grandmothers house. He also got fired due to Covid and just messed up his life overall. He is a sick individual. Just sucks me to my stomach. I’m glad he never assaulted me but I’m truly sorry to the families of the kids he did. If anyone wants to look him up his name is “Dominic Barbagallo”.

[@louhortonsculpture]

I saw that one. So glad they caught him and he was charged.

[@theoistrying9904]

Thank you for naming and shaming him. I’m so sorry you were even around this creep.

[@kashhen9409]

Wow really, I’m sorry. I watch predator poachers all the time, and always wonder what the family think. Did you find out as it was live?

[@Devopossum-se5jj]

A few years ago, a guy that used to live in my neighborhood contacted me on social media telling me how he always found me attractive. I met him when I was 7. We moved when I was around 10. He would have been in his 30s.

[@hallucinators]

thats so weird

[@noremac7216]

As a chubby quiet nerd who loves cartoons and has also raised three children and never been inappropriate with a minor in any way. Thank you for coming to our defense. I had an ex who put a spying app on my phone because she bought into that stereotype. And then when I'm leaving her for it she acts like I shouldn't be mad since she didn't find anything, like what? Yeah sure you invaded my privacy not to mention almost fried my phone battery but I'm not a predator so it's all good. I'm a lot more selective in my love life nowadays

[@damien678]

That's honestly so sad. I know a lot of women that find chubby, quiet nerds to be really cute. There's hope for ya!

[@noremac7216]

@@damien678 oh I have a very loving and supportive girlfriend of two years. But I was married to that psychopath for like a decade. Thank you for your concern though it's always nice when people are...well nice

[@lsthero5863]

Now that I think about it, when I was 12 in high school, most girls in my class dated 15-17 years old teenagers. They didn’t seemed to care much of them, treating them as a joke while dating girls their Age at the same time, and girls my Age seemed to want more to brag they were with the “Cool older boys” than anything else. Now that I think of it it was fucked up in many ways

[@Crosbhealach]

We usually called teens dating 2yrs or younger Cradle Robbers, at least in my highschool.

[@rmart1192]

​@Crosbhealach see I had this same mindset too. Going out with someone more than 2 grades above or below was inappropriate when I was growing up, but thats not saying it didn't happen. At my highschool, I remember a senior from the soccer team dating a freshman and I remember there being talk around the school about it. It seemed to die down after a few weeks tho. To be completely fair, last I heard this couple was still together to this day - kids of their own and all. So I guess it's not always nefarious when this happens, idk

[@jojothermidor]

It's not fucked up at all. It's entirely normal lmao.

[@GigaChadDuPlessis]

Bro imagine your friend asks for a ride to meet a girl hes been talking with and you agree just to find out hes a kiddy toucher. That would absolutely derail my ability to trust anyone

[@gooseyghost9138]

I've unfortunately had two teachers who were allegedly caught for "liking" the students. The first was a middle school gym teacher. Because of him, the other teachers got really on my ass to wear a bra, but I didn't want to bc I had sensory issues from adhd (possibly autism too). Eventually ofc I relented bc if I didn't wear one it would kinda hurt to run lol. I don't remember that gym teacher ever giving me bad vibes, but it was so long ago. The next one though, a high school math teacher, DEFINITELY gave me bad vibes. I would often catch him staring at me during work time in class and he'd just tell me to smile... Just thinking about the way he said it sends shivers down my spine 😬. However, even though he creeped me tf out, I never quite connected the dots about WHY until after he was gone. I was a very oblivious 14yo and only in hindsight realize I shouldn't have worn low-cut shirts as often as I did, even though that obviously doesn't make it justified. I just didn't think anyone (especially an ADULT) could ever see me in that way bc I was so young (and looked even younger than I was), my boobs were still modest A cups, and I was chubby so I thought I was ugly. I was also the youngest one in the class for reasons that aren't important, but man does it make his fixation on me specifically worse. I was a year younger than all the other students in that class. I'm pretty sure he gave me a better grade than I should have gotten too, bc I've always been horrible at math and nearly failed all my math classes afterwards, even with a tutor helping me. He also used to stalk my bff, who was the same age as me and didn't even take his class. He'd offer her rides home all the time, but she never accepted. She walked home bc she lived within 3 miles of the school so couldn't ride the bus and her parents couldn't pick her up for various reasons. She said he'd follow her home in his car sometimes and claimed he lived nearby. Maybe he actually did, but either way it was still super creepy. Anyways, he was fired and possibly arrested the year after I took his class. Rumor was that he tried to proposition a student to "pleasure" him after class, and she basically ran away screaming. When I heard I was kinda surprised, but also not surprised (like an initial shock, but followed by a quick realization). It really sucks that people like that exist and are able to put themselves in positions where they are close to kids.

[@Chewy59382]

I won't say much but my ex friend's dad was a creep who did stuff to my sister (I won't say a lot to keep certain things private) but after it happened my sister would keep it a secret for 3 years and had severe anger issues which would make me go to my room and cry (I was 9 or 10) I still get scared when she screams or cry's and I still go into my room and hold back tears I'm not crying as much now but I still get scared a little

[@christianpalmer]

Pray for him

[@WaitComatose]

We had two teachers in our Highschool. One has been there for years, even my older sister had him as a teacher, and she’s 7 years older than I am. Anyways if any girls wore a low cut t-shirt during test days they would all pass. He’s still a teacher and nothing has came out against him but everyone knows he’s a creep and he’s a 9th grade teacher. Other was a coach, guy came from the panthers to help with the football team. Got caught with one of the seniors but she was 17. The rumors got so bad the principal eventually stepped in and asked him. This was 2018

[@rene3759]

@@christianpalmer so you wont pray for the victim? i pray he stays locked up so he cant harm anyone else ever again. thats the best for everyone involved.

[@christianpalmer]

@@rene3759 pray for the victims and that the holy spirit will change him that's the best

[@johnp.2267]

I have a cousin who was highly intelligent, polite, quiet, and never volunteered to work around children. When he was caught with copious amounts of child material on his computer, it honestly came as a massive shock. I even shared an apartment with him for a year, and he never gave off any creepy vibes. He ended up spending over a decade in a federal prison because he was caught sharing material over Yahoo chat. When he got out, he had no teeth and was not the same person as when he went in.

[@PersonOnline469]

I used to have this PE teacher who was the definition of stereotype. He was obese, had short, greasy hair, you name it. He looked like Big Ed's cousin. He'd been my PE teacher for years and even followed me to high school. For summary, it was grades around 6-9. I had been in online school due to bullying that last year and the whole covid thing has really shaped me up on how people were supposed to act towards each other. When I finally came back to school in 9th grade, I noticed that he was acting weird towards us. He favored the girls a lot more than the boys. He treated the boys harshly for doing small things, while the girls who were literally breaking the school rules got away scot free. I remember sitting on the gym floor like the other girls were, mainly the popular girls who fed into his attention, and I was the only one called out for this. He was really creepy towards me, but never actually touched me. It got to the point where I told the higher ups about it and they told him to stay at least a few feet away from me. Keep in mind, during this time parents were enraged and were demanding him to be fired due to him have a decades worth of evidence of him being a predator. Everyone in the school knew and let him keep his job. I particularly remember two moments. The first one was when I was picking up my books that had fallen and found him looking at me while I was bent down. He was far away, but you could just tell he was turning his head away from my direction. The other time was a few weeks after the school told him to knock it off and did the whole few feet away thing. My back was turn to him and he walked RIGHT NEXT TO ME, our bodies almost touching. You could just tell he was trying not to stare. Also keep in mind that I only wore hoodies and pants. I didn't wear anything revealing. I was 15-16 and I'm 16 as now of writing this. This all happened about a year ago and it still bothers me til this day. I won't name the school because I don't want to get sued. But yeah, it shook me up quite a bit.

[@JoshSweetvale]

You may want to give a tip to some government parties. The Deputies may or may not feel like spending time on this, but there might be specialized agency task forces that you can contact directly. Heck, maybe child services?! Though the parents involved may have already done something of the sort. That'd be the way it works in the Netherlands.

[@PersonOnline469]

@@JoshSweetvale The PE teacher was fired from his job already, but he's probably at another one. I doubt anything can be done about it now since it was so long ago. Thank you for your advice and support. It really means the world to me that people like you who care still exist in a world where it's either fame or die.

[@Nat-eb1ix]

Narrator, I'm with you about story 22. What's going on is an unbalanced power dynamic. It's why counselors / case managers / therapists aren't allowed to date former clients

[@hoenir_the_silent]

While I get what you're saying The fact of the matter is is they were both legal adults making legal adult choices in which the district had no business sticking their noses in it was wrong for him to be fired that'd be like a company firing someone for dating a former employee and calling it fraternization. But I will say yes it is a bit of a gray area because he was her teacher at one point in time but even at that time they were both still legal adults making legal adult choices.

[@Nat-eb1ix]

@@hoenir_the_silent you see, I'm not so sure about the legality though. In my profession, this would be grounds for immediate termination and forfeiture of my license to practice mental health

[@WyvernJelly]

Story 6: My husband is one of these people. He likes to people watch. We were out and saw a couple playing pool at a bar and grill. Based off body language he was able to figure out that they had recently started dating, this wasn't the first date, and the woman wasnt really interested in the guy at the moment. His first instincts regarding people are usually correct. He said a coworker was a lawsuit waiting to happen. She did try to get him fired because he was friendlier with the other women than he was with her (business only).

[@SureYoureRight]

I hate people watchers with a passion

[@HashbrownMashup]

@@SureYoureRight why

[@fuzzyizmit]

I love the RDR2 background so much! I find some of the parkour type backgrounds move so much that it gives me motions sickness if I watch it for too long.

[@amandabriscoe6578]

I saw R2D2 at first and was super confused. Lol. I did wonder if this was RDR though, I've always wanted to play it. I also agree with the parkour games being difficult to actually watch. I'm hard of hearing so I'm grateful for the subtitles but as someone who gets motion sick fairly easy, it sometimes sucks when it's those videos. Though I'd love to play most of the games they show. I just can't read along on some.

[@issnake1109]

Bro needs to feed his dang horse tho lol. But I agree, sometimes the parkour moves too fast for my eyes

[@NightL3gacy47]

Not a Catch A Predator story, but a story that happened to me when I was around 7 or 8. My parents usually let me walk home with my older cousin. On this day I had to walk alone since my cousin was sick and off school. While walking home (it was like 4 blocks away from the school), a vehicle stopped next to me and offered me a lift. I didn't know the person and declined, stating that I was right around the corner and I'm meeting with friends in half an hour (I didn't have friends at the time, and just lied off the top of my head). The person left me be and I told my parents about the encounter. They congratulated me for what I said, hugged me, and were overall thankful that I was okay. When I turned 16, I learned that the guy who tried to pick me up was the stepfather of someone in my family, and if memory serves, had molested someone in my family when they were 13-14 (back in the 80's), and had assaulted 2 to 4 other girls under the age of 10 before the person in my family. What really gets my blood boiling is that the only reason he didn't get thrown in jail is because the court refused to let his victims testify against him. It still makes me anxious thinking of what would have happened to me had I entered the vehicle, and makes me royally pissed off at knowing that disease is still running free in society

[@mandykilpatrick1635]

When I married at 20 and had my first a year later, I would never leave him in the care of my BIL, despite everyone telling me how good he was with kids and his own daughters would be there too. 10 years later, busted for abusing his daughters and his GF (from before marriage) children (girls and a boy). My ex husband used to ask how I knew, I didn't, I just knew he wasn't right.

[@cc_snipergirl]

People who are really nice are either genuinely nice or are preying on people in their most vulnerable state. Kindness is helping people who are vulnerable in some way

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

I wonder if all these folks who are "super helpful, upstanding citizens" who do this stuff are actually just compensating for their evilness. Jimmy Saville apparently was like that - he genuinely thought that him opening up children's hospitals and doing other great things counteracted his r(a)ping a four year old girl in the back of a church (iirc). Like, they know they're doing terrible things to some people, so they act super nice to others because that's how they sleep at night. "Well, at least I [insert nice deed here]"

[@melissaharris3890]

most likely. if the guy that raised money for the new boys and girls club/children's hospital/child w/e spends extra time with kids, it wont be weird. get reports of touching, well he brushed up against them of parents are just looking to sue for money. has a reputation thatwould be hard to tear down

[@jaycooper2812]

There are some states that the offense had to be of a certain level of depravity for a convict to be required to register as an offender. In one state I lived in a guy getting caught in a Chris Hansen situation would not be required to register as no physical abuse actually happened. One police department in that state turns the evidence over to the FBI so that the offender is prosecuted federally instead of under the state's laws.

[@EmpressMermaid]

I know of an individual (rather not dwell on how or why I knew him) that was caught in a similar setup by the FBI. They knew what they were doing when they set him up to travel across state lines so it would be federal. They made him believe he was meeting a 12 yr old and her 9 yr old sister. Under Federal law if you take the steps to do it it's the same as if you did it.

[@mojojojo3411]

You keep repeating parts

[@shanecastleberry4176]

I thought I was tripping

[@MischieviousJirachi]

Yep

[@tumigameplays7149]

Longer video = more watch time = more turnover

[@CMDR_Squishface]

I seriously thought I was having some fucked up adhd deja vu

[@mr.guitarmania8265]

It's just something he has to work on.

[@derekm.toohey538]

Not TCAP, but a dean/graphic arts teacher at my high school was caught a few years ago on one of those vigilante predator hunting streams, trying to meet up with a 14 year old boy. I didn’t have many interactions with him during my time in high school, but we always had a mutual respect for one another. He seemed like a nice and reasonable guy, albeit a little socially awkward

[@Cc-xq8rr]

7:29 thank you for this - it is a necessary recontextualization and made me feel much more comfortable as a viewer not having to hear that word so carelessly used to describe such horrific situations.

[@LBozoBrain]

This has to be your wildest video

[@jack_attack6631]

Agreed

[@Honaok]

Yea… 😭

[@epicgamer29484]

Are you a burger

[@FaydOgolon]

The one who didn't get charged wasn't exactly an innocent bystander "just along for the ride." If I remember correctly, he had also engaged in on-line chats with the same undercover operative as his friend. However, his chats didn't contain anything explicit, so they weren't able to charge him. That was the only one on TCAP that I know of who didn't have to go to prison.

[@CyranofromBergerac]

Uhh ok, and? If he wasn't talking explicitly they don't have anything to go on. Could he be planning something? Not out of the realm of possibility. But it's not a guarantee either. But most importantly you're mistaken. He didn't chat with anyone. Sabastian asked and David went with him. You're confusing it with someone caught in the various stings that did get released because they didn't have enough evidence to say they were soliciting. Usually PJ wouldn't give the address until it's clear they were going to try to meet for illicit purposes but a few slipped through were the intentions weren't clear.

[@Swiftiesince2016]

You beat me to it . I agree tho. You are confusing David Macak with another tag along. David never had a chat with a decoy that we know of

[@Kennephone]

I'll never understand people that sexually assault kids, I'm 21 and I wouldn't date anyone under 17, and even then it would have to be someone who's mature.

[@SiSi-ed7yy]

Im 16 and i was dating a 21 year old until he got in trouble with the cops so understand where your coming from

[@polyliker8065]

3 reasons from what ive seen on tcap. 1. Loniness and desperation (incels), that lookfor any sort of attention and intimacy. 2. Fetishism. People who are actual pedos (as in prefer children)nand never get the help they need to not be an offender. 3. Powerplay. People who like feeling powerful but can only do so with kids. All of em are problems but fixable if the will is there.

[@janemiettinen5176]

It’s about power & control for guys (and gals) who don’t have self-esteem, young ones are easy to coerce & manipulate. Just like rape has very little to do with sex, dating minors is about supremacy over the other, because person of same age and status is too intimidating. Guys marrying minors are abusers nearly every time, I have trouble with laws that condone this.. Sometimes I wonder what some balding dude talks about with 12 years olds anyways, it’s just sad as hell.

[@MrSmithington]

We will never understand because we aren't wired that way but sadly and naturally a massive amount of men are like that, and in history it's actually been considered normal. Look at romans and there trips away with young boys.

[@whaaaaaaaaattt]

If you'd date a 17yo at the age of 21 you're fucked up. That's not the argument you think it is, get help.

[@pixystixnfairycrack]

I used to hang out with Joe Wunderler in my teens. We hung out a bunch of times, always called him Wonderbread. He was always pretty quiet, but respectful. I know he was having a hard time at home, but he wouldn't talk about it much. I ended up moving away for a few years and lost track of him. I was completely shocked and horrified when I saw him on TCAP. I honestly never expected that to come from him.

[@redtailarts101]

Having a short wife doesn't make someone a predator... But it does make sense that a predator would find someone short appealing.

[@krislarsen6546]

Fun fact... I think it's in Brazil I don't remember but apparently they restrict how short an actress can be in a porn film. Which is hilarious in itself.

[@NicoleoCrafts]

Didn’t know anyone on the show but an old manager of mine was caught with CP. We were all SHOCKED. He was the best manager I ever had, super easy to talk to, really willing to help his team and then that happened.

[@MeowthGamer19]

Was he also on the show?

[@user-nx9qh1po1n]

@@MeowthGamer19 Read the first sentence.

[@sarahreaume6659]

For story 1 he deserved to be banned from family events those girls did not deserve an upskirt photos

[@VolleyballArtistRawr]

It's really bugging me as a rdr2 player that they didn't heal their horse (reason why it's head is so low)

[@TheKillerStove]

I went to school with Vincent Ambrosio, the guy whose footage never made it to air, but you can find on KZbin. Pretty much everyone called him "the cowboy" due to his tendency to wear a ridiculous cowboy hat (we were in the suburbs in New York), button up shirts, and blue jeans no matter the heat. Despite how he dressed, he never really stood out much otherwise. He was quiet, and the only times I ever interacted with him were due to him being close with a guy in my friend group. I know he was kind of nerdy, loved country music and westerns, and from our interactions I got the sense he was a no nonsense type of guy who took most things seriously. He never really gave off any red flags that I saw, but I can't say I knew him that well as a person either. Still wild to me that he was capable of trying something so heinous

[@pennyforyourthots]

20:01 there are laws for these kinds of situations, but they almost exclusively exist at the state level, and they are almost exclusively enforced at the state level. This leads to a large amount of mismanagement, or simply just not having the resources to deal with the problem.

[@jac6995]

I guess Nickelodeon animation wasn't too concerned with the guy who created Ren and Stimpy openly bragging about dating underage girls

[@tally_ish]

23:54 real, I went to a game design workshop over the summer and had a chubby quiet awkward nerdy guy in my group. He even had a bit of a neckbeard going on. But the kid was so chill and sweet. I think we were both 16 then?? Only knew him for that 2 week period but dude was amazing.

[@noxplanationgaming]

ok... there cant be THIS many ppl that can respond to this question... (I got way too much attention from this stupid comment lol)

[@werderwu]

U recon they capin?

[@mrw1783]

I went to scouts with someone who did crimes against children. You wouldn't have known.

[@serduncan6933]

I Dont know. The Show is old and many people watch IT and are on Reddit. So the Chances of someone working/knowing someone and seeing the question are Not to Bad I guess

[@Youraveragecultist]

You’d be surprised(sure some of these may be lying, but I have a feeling most of these are true)most CPreds do have people who know them, usually working regular jobs.

[@brerutledge5048]

How many seasons are there n how many episodes per season? I mean there’s at least a million people out there that can answer this question

[@PinkyJujubean]

Back around 2011 I traveled back to my hometown to visit my parents. While I was there I thought Id look on the registry and see if anyone I used to know was on it. I saw at least 20 people that I either knew or recognized. Almost all of them were on it for statutory but a few were pedos 🤢

[@shreddertgw6528]

23:53 Naw this narrator’s opinion on the chubby quite nerd bs is too funny 😂💀

[@BaldCoryxKenshinfan]

I mean, he is right. Not all chubby nerds are predators. 😭

[@Spencer-vq7se]

I have a personal experience, however it was one of those youtube channels and not the actual show. I went to rehab with this kid named mason and he was 19 at the time, people would always talk about how creepily obssessed he was with the program directors son (13 yrs old). Long and behold, about a year after I was released from there, one of my buddies sent me a KZbin video link, and it was classic TCAP style video of him getting caught red handed by a small youtube channel. It was disturbing when my brain finally connected that to his weird obsession with the 13yr old in that rehab. Cant make this stuff up.

[@perfectbrunnetdoll]

That's the scary part of it. These people could be anyone and living normal lives. At some point in your life, you've probably known or worked with or passed these people. murderers and criminals alike. grew up and was friends with this one kid at my grandparents church and he had scary tendencies like killing bugs and small animals. well turns out he got convicted of murder (gang related) of multiple people including his ex at the time. He is now serving life in prison.

[@jessr8785]

The guy who worked for nickelodeon was justin smith" the guy named dave is david Kaye.

[@toast7580]

Dave is not Rabbi David Kaye

[@naturewandererZ]

I had a teacher in 7th grade that taught my drama and chorus classes. He was always so awkward and I got an odd feeling about him. He always wanted me to stay after class and talk to him and I made friends with him over a year or two. Then he just disappeared. Apparently he was fired for having child porn and I literally had no idea. I'm honestly stressed about it because he was always so close to me and it's likely something bad could have happened.....

[@W3lcome2H3ll]

I had a teacher who was fired from a previous school for sleeping with a former male student she was a great teacher & i didnt mind going to her class i never suspected her of having done that idk how she ended up getting a teaching job at a different school

[@greywolf7577]

Unfortunately, schools are a lot more forgiving toward female sexual abusers than male sexual abusers.

[@ravenscircle4680]

I have a story I would like to add tho I don't know anyone from the show but I did have a teacher in highschool who was the culinary teacher. He was a very large man who was quite obese and had some anger management issues. A lot of the other students in my class weren't very respectful and would be playing on their phones or chatting amongst themselves while he was trying to teach. This would lead to outbursts from time to time. Once he threw a cookie sheet clean across the kitchen into the sink and busted a few plates and another time he flipped a desk after repeatedly asking the class the be quiet. My group of friends and I, however, empathized with him because we understood the frustrations of his job and trying to work with teenagers. We actually got along with him very well and he was quite funny in conversation. We shared our interests in anime and certain video games with him and he would tell us funny stories of when he was in college or crack jokes. The jokes never seemed inappropriate to us at all. He had a daughter that was just about my age only a couple years younger. I used to walk all the way to school every morning in the rain, snow, wind, etc. it didn't matter. Mr. Teacher would be driving his daughter to school in the mornings and sometimes would catch me on sidewalk and stop to ask if I would like to ride with him and his daughter the rest of the way to school. Naturally, I would get in and ride because who wants to walk to school? He never said anything out of the way to me or made me get weird vibes. He just seemed like a stressed out teacher and loving dad. He always talked about how proud he was of his daughter and how much he loved her. Years later after I graduated he ended up on the news. Screenshots were posted to the Facebook wall of a young boy who used to date Mr.Teacher's daughter. Apparently Mr. Teacher had created a fake Snapchat pretending to be a young girl to catfish his daughter's ex-boyfriend. He was asking the kid to meet him at motels and never showed up multiple times and the boy even sent him inappropriate snaps. Once the figured out who it was he called Mr. Teacher out in the messages and his excuse was that ex-boyfriend had broke his daughter's heart after taking her v-card and breaking up with her which made him very upset and he wanted to break the boy's heart back to get revenge for his daughter. I was shocked I just couldn't believe it. That teacher spent some time in jail idk how long but it still has me befuddled to this day.

[@troubleinthevalley5884]

And when I was about six or seven me and my little friend were playing in our bathing suits out in the yard of our apartment building in a mud puddle. I remember this Hispanic man probably in his twenties or thirties coming out and asking us if he could take pictures of us. On one hand I was a child so didn't think a whole lot of it but at the same time I knew something was off enough and felt weird enough about it to tell him no and then immediately go tell my mom. She went out and flipped out on this dude. I sort of forgot all about it or thought nothing of it after that and I don't remember ever seeing the guy again but looking back now I've always wondered what happened to that man and where his life went from there and if he's in jail or if he ended up doing something a lot worse to any young girls. It's always worried me. I really hope that was like a one-off and he never got his hands on any little girls

[@BobtheExile]

Not on the show, but was technically on TV...When I was 2 or 3 (between 1994 an '95), my mom married a guy who, unbeknownst to her, in 1987 or '88 had gone to prison for a month for being with a 15-year-old (I never found out the gender) when he was 28. She found out in '97 through a friend who knew him, and he lied about it (because of course he did). This opened the floodgates for all of his lies to be exposed, and to simplify things nothing he had told her was true, so she contacted the local news station about it and they aired his face all over. She then went on to divorce him, take me and my brother (his son) and move out of state, leading to a loooooooong court battle that ended when he had a heart attack and died in a hotel room in Terra Haute, Indiana. Not even his son went to the funeral.

[@fatalattraction613]

I hate when a post asks a specific question and people who don’t fit the criteria still answer anyway. "He wasn’t on To Catch A Predator but…" I want to hear from people who knew someone busted on that show, which is a unique set of circumstances. People really don’t know how to follow instructions.

[@Xurnalea]

I wasn't expecting a channel with this content format to be so human instead of just reading from reddit in a robot voice. Heavy topics like these need a human behind their discussion.

[@rachelfox8108]

Story 25: that man probably wasn't humbled enougu because he was (most likely) kept out of gen pop (general population). Honour among thieves applies in prison, and if they find out you touched children, you're going to be, at best, shunned, or at worst, assaulted and exploited, if not killed. Sexual predators typically get their own unit to avoid those issues as an obligatory duty of care.

[@ChaosTheoriesLux]

Nickoloden had a more rigorous vetting process than other studios. "Other studios" including the one with Harvey Weinstein. The bar is on the ground here.

[@JewelWildmoon]

One thing I really will never understand is why some places still hire people who did this to kids in positions where they have direct access to them despite *_knowing_* what they did.

[@ButChaAreBlanche]

I was groomed by a predator featured on a Long Beach edition episode, mid-grooming me as a 15 yo teen. So, he was always a predator before getting caught lol. He actually had the audacity to reach out to me, 18 years later on WhatsApp🙃

[@shadowcard6923]

Man, the death penalty isn’t enough for some of those “things” (they’re not people anymore and should not be treated as such)

[@MaryAX]

Best comment 💯 I have not been seeing as many of these as I should imo. Thank you. 👏🏻

[@HashbrownMashup]

Is it unethical to pirate child exploitation material without paying for it?

[@brag0001]

You are making sure more kids suffer with your comment. That makes you a child abuser in my book ...

[@missamanda2703]

My husband and I have a 6 year age difference. However, we were 24 and almost 30 when we married. This was 20 years ago. If we had been 18 and 24, my police officer daddy would have had his hide.

[@polespinosa4858]

Should I start something with a 30 y/old woman? As a 24 male? She is somewhat broken, dad issues, I feel she is self-sabotaging her current/last relationship. She does not want kids. But I really thing she does, Deep inside. She wants to take care of me.

[@hallucinators]

@@polespinosa4858 of course! follow your heart and heal hers :)

[@thewanderingqueen725]

I have too many stories. At least 6-10 people. They are everywhere.

[@StormTheSquid]

21:22 Now don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think the teacher should've been fired for being in a consenting relationship with another adult. Former student? They didn't know each other beforehand as was stated in the story. Age gap? They're both adults, so that shouldn't matter as long as they're both happy and consenting. They met as adults and it doesn't seem like their relationship started until after her graduation. It just doesn't make sense to me that that teacher got fired but the social studies teacher at my gradeschool who'd look down the shirts of the *third and fourth graders* was allowed to come back after supposedly serving jail time for it, *and he still does it according to a family friend's daughter in his class.* If they're gonna be so extreme as to fire someone for having a consenting relationship with another adult who they met as an adult, they should throw my social studies teacher in jail permanently. I witnessed his actions but didn't know how to speak up (I was mildly mentally disabled) and the only reason I wasn't one of his victims is I looked and acted too much like a boy for him to target me I guess. Disgusting man. He should be in prison for the rest of his life.

[@josefanon8504]

yea it makes no sense at all, especially cause 24 and 18 is not a terrible age gap and there's no way he knew.

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

At my school, there was a teacher who got with a former student a couple years after the student graduated, but the age gap was 1 year and they were in their 20’s when they met via a mutual friend and hit it off, so no one saw issue with their relationship. Cases like this aren’t a big deal imo cuz there was no intention to date a student from the get-go, and their reconnection was not tied to their teacher-student relationship. Still odd to hear, but it’s not morally or legally wrong.

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

@@josefanon8504 It’s still iffy when someone in their mid 20’s is dating an 18 year old, but it’s not illegal, and so long as there aren’t any power dynamics it shouldn’t be an issue.

[@josefanon8504]

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 yea, very dependant on power dynamics and mental age (dont know how to better phrase it)

[@plantlifeforever6994]

​@@josefanon8504if there's teen in their age but not in yours, generally too young. Just begs the question what's wrong with people your own age - what would a 20+ want to do with a teenager 😅

[@fionna_cool_girl]

Anyone that says "this was only the first time" is either lying or hoping to get away with it to be more sneaky about doing it again.

[@souta95]

When I was in high school, I found out that one of my vice principals had married one of her teachers right out of college... Her husband had worked for the school until retirement. She retired a couple years after I graduated.

[@arbCannons3395]

If these are your clips from red dead. For the love of god take better care of your horse. I felt so bad seeing how tired it often was in this video.

[@greengrey-yt]

How was this good? Because it was. I love your videos!

[@josephgaspar2944]

A lot of these stories are super “convenient” almost like someone made them up

[@pennyforyourthots]

Personally, I don't know if I believe the "nobody ever knew" excuse. 90% of child victims know their abuser. You're telling me that friends, family, teachers, etc are abusing your kids and you never once caught a bad vibe? I think the reality is just that creepy behavior towards children is so normalized that a lot of people simply don't recognize it. It's anecdotal, but literally every woman I know had some sort of story of being cat called as a young girl. If this behavior really was that uncommon, I don't see why everybody I know would have the exact same story. I guarantee you that the women in your life, or perhaps you yourself, probably have some sort of story just like it. I think the problem is that creepy behavior is just so common in our society, that people just can't recognize the signs of predators because they can't even recognize the signs of creepy behavior. Like, there is a very clear pattern among predators. They tend to be men, especially older, in positions of power that allow them around children. They are commonly very well respected members of their community, and almost every high-profile story has victims coming out and just not being believed for no action being taken.

[@PeriwinklePig]

To add to that, I think there's an element of cognitive dissonance going on; the belief of "it can't happen to me, that only happens to other people" that prevents people from acknowledging predators in their circles even when reality itself is shoving it in your face that they do exist. Easier to deny the problem and silence victims than to face ruination from people you know have no moral compas to after all.

[@maroontiger1361]

​@@PeriwinklePig100%. Many abusers intentionally endear themselves to others so that the victims won't be believed. Like if the victim's mom has a partner who is abusing them, will they be believed if they tell their mom? Horrifyingly, sometimes they aren't. It's awful yet happens all the time.

[@lspectroniztar]

i feel like i've been listening to this for two hours even though it's only been 1 half hour

[@espurrispossessed]

We had a similar thing happen at my high school as story 22. PE teacher dated an ex student but most people are 16! Here when they graduate high school and we all suspect he started dating her before she graduated (this was all years before I attended tho). He still worked there during my high-school career. Everyone warned each other about him. He finally ended up getting fired during covid because he had contacted a girl (think she was 18) trying to pay her so he could have k!nky intercourse with her 💀. So she contacted the school and posted it online for everyone to see.

[@peachybeachy3635]

Childhood abuse is NOT an excuse to prey on other children later in life.

[@Speed-dw6qp]

I had a boss that was well respected, Harvard educated and successful. He left at some point and I didn't stay in contact with him. Years later I got a message from a former coworker with a news story attached. Our boss was a pedo and was now in prison.

[@romecottrell6444]

That's a good T.V. SHOW, I didn't know anyone, but I did watch a couple of episodes😮.

[@Saphirakii]

the nickelodeon one aged like milk

[@gooseywoosy9090]

RIVERSIDE?!?! I LIVE THERE

[@Error695.]

The city or county

[@Entwined.Destinies]

Florida or not is the better question

[@josefanon8504]

there are probably like 50 riversides though

[@sneakylemon8513]

I'm 28F and I love Disney! Like I'm low key obsessed. I do criticise where it gets problematic but I still love so many of the movies and shows. But fucking hell... just the idea that pedos exist makes me feel physically ill. I don't understand how anyone could do something like that. I work with kids and I don't even think it's appropriate to be their friend because the power imbalance is just too high. We are not peers. I can be a mentor sure, but not friend and certainly not anything closer. Like wtf is wrong with people. Their brains must be seriously broken. I really think they need life sentences. And honestly there needs to be permanent mental health living facilities for people who even think they might lean that way to go live in before they act on it.

[@Hello_Spaceboy]

Story 12 was so wild 😂

[@ronlussier8570]

My father-in-law worked at the same truck factory as the Green River Gary. The guy was so weird, coworkers called him Green River killer, five years before he was caught

[@Cookie-Crumblez]

My sisters are about to do a orientation for covenant transport, yikes I need to tell them 😂😂😂

[@Byyte]

"could have come out black" then explaining at the end was too funny.

[@endersdragon34]

My brother was an Iowa Barnstormer, though he never had a chance to be a victim thankfully. Yeah... enough said.

[@HashbrownMashup]

If they can wait until graduation I feel like that's the bare minimum benchmark for relationship responsibility.

[@Xarai]

they were the same as before, normal people the difference being is they were lied about and too in order to falsely accuse innocent people and tricking others into thinking they are bad people

[@stresslee]

I will never understand why people are so trusting. With anyone. You can never know what’s inside someones head and also even good people can end up doing something horrible when the circumstances are right. I don’t trust anyone completely. There are people I do trust, but never 100%. You need to be careful out here and protect your people.

[@MagnusDudus]

It sounds like you have no people since you trust no one

[@stresslee]

@@MagnusDudus you right lmao

[@SerasXHarkonnen]

My old psychiatrist, a child psychiatrist, got caught filming a young boy at a public urinal. I think one of the dads caught him and they confronted him outside the toilet while waiting for police to get there, they filmed him the entire time and stopped him from leaving. I remember watching the video and seeing the panic in his eyes as he realised he was fucked. Anyway, he got arrested, they found more CP on his devices including other boys he filmed in public bathrooms, and once the story went public he had 9 former patients come forward accusing him of sexual assault. What he did was say that he needed to do a "physical exam" on the patients before prescribing medication but that was just bullshit and he just used it to get the young boys, most under 12, to strip and then he would inappropriately touch them while pretending it was part of the exam. This all happened a few years after I'd been his patient, when I saw him he was working with a government clinic but later he went on to start his own private clinic which is where this all happened. I was 15 when I saw him, I'd gone through puberty pretty early and I have a Slavic background so I had a beard and was taller than him when I was his patient so I don't think I was ever at risk but it still freaks me out just thinking about the what ifs of it all. My parents and I all remember him as being pretty weird and very smug/condescending, we weren't fans even before the news broke.

[@MaraaDee]

On this topic, I feel like in the last 10yrs, there’s been so many stories of child predators & it’s becoming so common, so when I see a guy on a dating app & they’re working in a grade school (one even stated they “love kids”), I am reluctant to want to make their acquaintance because, who knows🤷🏻‍♀️ for one, it’s hard to find quality, honest guys on the apps.

[@blackhagalaz]

Reminds me of a story during my school years. I think we where like 7-8 when our school arranged bike-courses and traffic - training for us so we would be save when during our bike trough the city. We would get a symbolic "drivers license" and could skip a few school hours for that course. So yay. The courses where held by a teacher and a local policeman (who's name in my language was literally Goat-leg). He did this course every year at our school for like 8 years or so, and was always a very nice guy. We kids loved him because he was funny. He kinda looked like Walter White if I remember correctly. Well a few years after I had my course it turns out that he is accused of assaulting his two daughters for years who at the time where just a few years older then we where. It was in all the local papers, so that's how I learned that people like this even exist. I honestly couldn't believe it. When he was under investigation he unalived himself in prison so there never was a trial as far as I recall. Shows how it literally can be anyone.

[@soapssie]

Not on the official "Catch a Predator" show, but more so a guy on KZbin pretended to be a 13 year old girl and caught him in the act of trying to "hook up" with "her" while "she" was supposed to be in school. I didn't know this man long, I'm 20 years old, I met him like near the end of 2023 and him being caught was as of recently, but still, I considered him family, but I have a feeling that's not how he saw me. Before the video, I met him through my sister; First Red Flag when when he said "She looks sexy", (She's two years older than me and we're both like around 5'4, but again, still adults anyways so we just thought he was just being a little bit of an annoying pig), she got pretty upset about it, I told her to drop his ass, he ended up apologizing, she said she forgave him and eventually had me warm up to him due to not wanting me to hate him. I found out through my sister that he was in a relationship a woman we knew in our neighborhood, a mother of two sweet girls, one 9 I think and one 13-? Those two girls were at "dad" basis with him, I thought nothing of it, he was what the average annoying, sort of traditional man acted liked, y'know.. So if the kids are comfortable with him, no problem, right? He and the woman who I'm gonna call "Ariel" would invite me and my sister to hang out with them after my sister recently got a dogs and the man, (Who I'm not gonna even hide his name because fuck you), Brian. I'd like to point out that mostly me, but my sister too do not have a good relationship with our father, it's a bit of a complicated story, so my sister started to call Brian "dad", he never seemed to minded and went with it, but then, on a Halloween night he and Ariel had us come along, I made an off-hand joke about him being everybody's funny uncle due to him being "a little" out-of-touch with the modern age, (making comments like; "I don't care what your gender is, as long you don't identify as a cat" and "Girls wear too short shorts nowadays and its slutty, nobody needs to see that". My dad made similar comments like this growing up so it was something I was used to). Anyways, his reaction to my joke about him being an uncle seemed to off-put him, like he made a face and said nothing, but I brushed it off. ANOTHER FACT ABOUT HIM I JUST REMEMBERED: He commonly always.. knew where we were?? Obviously my sister would tell him because he would offer to drive us, but there would be times this man would pick me up out of nowhere, (I'd ask my sister if she knew, she always said no), it was probably still a coincidence since it was like a twice or thrice times he did this, and one of the times his step daughters were with him getting pizza so. Something that's still fresh in my mind is this one time he walked u p to me to talk on my way back home in the neighborhood from shopping for some groceries and pulled into an abrupt hug, one hand on the back of my head, the other wrapped around me, and honestly, in that moment, I thought I felt happy about it?? I don't get hugs a lot, they mean a lot to me. I told my online friends about it but left out HOW he hugged me due to feeling like they'd call him a creep, (which, if any of us knew, would be their right). Then my sister's friend found the "Catch A Predator" video, from what I know, he definitely got kicked out since, y'know, the girls the guy into was 13, one of his step daughters were 13, I mean, you should kick out predators from your house anyways, regardless if you have children. Me and my sister distanced myself from him, and that's that. I don't think my sister talks to Ariel either still since my sister has been busy with college and all, I certainly haven't since I'm honestly afraid to ever see him again and I don't plan to EVER do that.

[@-myharlequinnsapphicarch-]

you were being hard ore groomed. none of that was coincidences, predators eho have children often use their children as a lure to get you comfortable aroudn then, or to get you to depend on them emotionally, you were vulnerable kids, thats why he targetted y'all. Predators are horrible, im so sorry, the feelings can be confusing, you can feel love for the person who was doing that to you at some point or have a weird trauma response to them and you feel ashamed and guilty, for perfectly normal reactions to grooming. im sorry, i was groomed but i was groomed multiple times online, i was also a young and vulnerable kid, they took advantage of my curiosity kindness and the fact i was desperately looking for validation that i didnt get from parents. I sincerely hope youre doing well and i want to let you know youre not alone in this, and youre not alone in your confusing and complex feelings, I wish you luck in your mental health journey, it can be incredibly hard. Its not you fault a grown man played with your emotions and made you feel good when you felt awful, its not your faukt that he put you in those awkward positions where you felt you needed to defend him but also felt inside a condemning guilt. Again, I hope youre doing well!

[@angelpandadaylane4924]

Story 6: op dad sounds like a legend and very chivalrous.

[@SneeringBull905]

From what I heard at the end of high school, one of my teachers left her husband of 14 years and started dating one of her students (who turned 18). All the moms were sure she was grooming him long before that. I’ve forgotten who the teacher was.

[@InkStudios2017]

I had an Algebra Teacher a few years back and generally didn’t think much of him. I don’t remember his life too much as I only truly paid attention to the math and work aspects of the class. Couple of months from the present, me and my family hear from either the news or a social media page that the teacher had been having suspicious activities with a Junior, which started when they were a senior so she was like 15 probably. Nothing bad like assulting them or anything, but like chatting with them after school and having private lessons. They fired the guy and sent all the math teachers into an overload of work as they had to give up their prep time for this guys actions. Don’t know if he was jailed, but I think it was either classified or something, as barely any students talked about him when they discussed the situation.

[@rentheseer190]

I never thought I'd get a laugh at a "VINDICATION!" (imagine the meme here) story, on this type of story compilation.

[@melissageorge2915]

When I watch these court videos of men who have SA children but have their families, friends, and more give statements on what amazing people they are and how they shouldn’t go to jail because they are a productive member of society and won’t do it again, it just sickens me. How can ANYONE support someone who does such a horrible thing? If I were asked to give a statement for someone like that I would easily say I cannot do that, and if I was pushed and pushed, they would NOT like what I had to say on the day of the hearing.

[@kadeng6528]

I work at a daycare and I just can't imagine liking any of my kids like that it just makes me feel gross to think that people in my position can hurt kids like that everything about those kind of people is just gross

[@veilsidevauss]

FEED THAT DAMN HORSE!

[@beccawaltz7591]

I know I’m clinically crazy but there’s so many things being repeated and stories blending together to the point I feel like I’ve finally snapped and need to go back to the ward 💀