Men charged in child sex case
Blaze:
Advocating for the murder of an American president may not have been the most vile thing Carl Sprayberry did online.
Georgia authorities arrested 19 men over the course of a four-day sting operation aimed at flushing out sexual predators keen to molest and/or traffic children. Among those charged was a failed Democratic politician who apparently previously discussed killing President Donald Trump online.
While ultimately executed from April 24 to 28 by the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the Georgia Internet Crimes against Children Task Force, Operation Lights Out was apparently the result of months of planning and the collaboration of 12 law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Secret Service.
Undercover investigators posing as children engaged in conversation with various suspects on social media, dating websites, and other online platforms. In a number of exchanges, suspects allegedly "directed conversations with the child toward sex."
According to the GBI, 35 cases were established that met the threshold for arrest on the basis of the investigators' interactions online. However, in the 19 cases that ultimately resulted in arrests, suspects attempted to meet the "child" in person.
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The lawyers in these cases have real challenges and should probably try to make a deal with the prosecutors. It is hard to imagine 19 men planning to molest children. Since it was a sting operation, the prosecutors probably had evidence on tape of the perps' ambitions.
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