When $100 Million Isn't Enough

The sister 0f a man who committed suicide as police attempted to arrest him for allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a Dateline NBC operative posing as a 13-year-old boy, is suing NBC for $100 million. Unlike many of the men profiled on the show's "To Catch a Predator" series, Louis "Bill" Conradt, the chief felony assistant district attorney for Rockwall, County, TX, did not attempt to meet the teen he had chatted with on the Internet. While I am generally opposed to large lawsuits, I hope his sister wins the suit and gets every penny of the amount she's suing for. Actually, I believe she should be suing for even more.

What Dateline NBC and its partner, Perverted Justice, have been doing borders on entrapment, in my opinion. A lot of men have sexual thoughts toward underage teens. Thankfully, most of them don't act on these thoughts. However, Dateline provides the enticement for them to do something they might not ordinarily do -- and then helps the police catch them for it. This is tantamount to intentionally leaving a roll of one-hundred-dollar bills in plain sight of a desperate, financially strapped person and then jumping out from behind a wall and cuffing them when they reach for it.

Hopefully, this lawsuit will result in NBC's perverted form of justice being put on permanent hiatus and leaving sting operations to law enforcement professionals.