Monday, January 06, 2025

Students Charged in 'To Catch a Predator' TikTok Scheme

Assumption University students accused of luring man from dating site to campus, attacking him

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Five college students in Massachusetts are accused of luring a man to the Assumption University campus -- where he was chased by a group of about 25 people -- in a plot that the police said was inspired by the TV show "To Catch a Predator" and a TikTok trend. nyti.ms/40nUpJr

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) January 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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My assumption is that Assumption University is a Catholic School.

This is a huge, epic fail for a Church School.

The School deserves to wear this disgrace like it is a Scarlet letter.

They should all 25 of em be expelled.

If they wanted to harm a perv, they could have just beaten up the clergy at their school.

#1 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-01-06 01:44 PM

...and who, exactly are the predators in this conspiracy of violence?

#2 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-01-06 03:19 PM

TikTok is the ---- hole of the Internet. Even the Regulars on this site are decent by comparison.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-07 07:30 AM

^FACTS

#4 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-01-07 08:00 AM

Onward Christian Soldiers!

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-07 10:27 AM

Where were these punks when Trump was frolicking on Epstein Island?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-07 10:34 AM

Would love to know more of the ACTUAL detail? It is quite possible he was looking for someone underage but I mean if he was meeting her at a college she was a college student at this date 99.99% chance she was of age and he would know that. Even if he didn't think that, it's not up to them to punish. A co-workers now ex-husband was busted in a police sting shortly after they separated trying to get with an underage girl. Let the police do the work so they do the time and not you.

Even if he was middle age and she was 18 it is called consenting adults. Some young women have a thing for much older men and same for young men. I have seen both IRL more than once and not in a Sugar Daddy/Momma sort of way. I have seen it work out long term too. One couple I know from 30 years ago she was 20 and he was 39 - and her professor - married to this day. Just like there are fatty chasers out there. Seen more than one of those too - both ways again. If you are of any age and really think about all the people you have met over time, you have probably seen it all.

#7 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-07 12:20 PM

" Court documents said the driver's door was slammed on the man's head"

Christ what a poorly written sentence

Did the students rip the door off and hit the guy in the head with it?

Journalist should be able to write a coherent sentence

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-07 12:33 PM

"Where were these punks when Trump was frolicking on Epstein Island?"

Maybe they were working there.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-07 06:17 PM

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