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Tufts Medical Center doctor fired after arrest in child-sex sting
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Bro
If the premium for doing the deed sans jimmy hat is a mere 25%, bolt.
Disturbing
Have you um, given a lot of thought to this sort of situation?
I'm quick
With math.
Ain't much of a hooker game in Vermont.
Anesthesiologists make
Anesthesiologists make somewhere in the realm of $400k around here. Tack on a bit more for his professorship and research head positions.
So the question is… What kind of person makes half a million dollars a year but still trolls Craigslist (or an equally sordid site) for sex?
Answer:
A pedophile.
He was not looking for an expensive escort.
No strings attached
Do wealthy people hire escorts? Yes. Are there adult sex workers who keep a list of such clients? Yes. Why would wealthy people do this? They don't want a relationship, they want sex, perhaps an attractive companion for a party or event at times, too.
But make no mistake: this doctor isn't being arrested and fired for "trolling craigslist/other site" for sex - he was arrested and fired for deliberately going to sites where the trafficking and raping of children is for sale and arranging to pay to rape a young girl or two.
So the question is… What kind
Add a few zeros to the income, substitute “cheap sordid strip-mall brothels” for sordid websites, and maybe some local sports franchise owners might be able to help you understand the appeal.
Outside purview
Why is the Department of Homeland Security running pedophile sting operations?
How is within their stated mission?
trafficking children is a federal crime
also related to federal jurisdiction over production and dissemination of child pornography, and traveling interstate or internationally for pedophile purpose
DHS posted a fake ad on a foreign website, so international crime
The internet being what it is, they can't shut a foreign website down.
1st and 4th amendment being what they are, they can't monitor all US traffic to that website and punish visitors.
All they can do is troll guys already showing a disposition to offend by visiting that website, and set the hook of a fake ad to catch them.
An agency must find a purpose, or die
There was an article recently about how DHS's terrorism initiative is largely winding down, and now they're pivoting to social media disinformation or something: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/
Imagine being the agent
whose job it is to write things like "there is no guilt sex is a [natural] thing" to try to close the deal with wannabe child molesters.
(Also uh... posting an ad is one thing, but I feel like that line is edging reaaaally close to entrapment? Unless there's some very important missing context, it sounds like they're encouraging the guy! I wonder how often the agents cross that line in their pursuit of a potential arrest and end up with the case thrown out in court.)