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Why don't they go after the dangerous child molestors who go after prebuscent children? If someone were masquerading like a 9 year old, I would be happy to see a pervert who approaches them get crushed. But I have not seen this yet.

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Agreed. It is much more difficult to go after these creeps in a TV friendly manner. With latency aged kids the abuse is usually disclosed to an adult (or a peer who reports in to an adult) or a doctor discovers something unusual during an examination - and a child of such a young age would never "invite" the abuse.

Since they are never (rarely) a willing participant, you cannot snare these abusers in a sting operation like you see on Dateline.

If you get a petite 19 year old she can pull of 12 or 13 well enough for the purpose of these operations. How do you set of a trap for someone whose target age is 7 to 9 or someone who abuses infants? This is much more difficult.

In these cases you are counting on someone in the community to report.