'DATELINE' SUED IN SEX-STING SUICIDE

[Sammy]

July 18, 2007 -- THE sister of a veteran Texas prosecutor who blew his brains out as he was about to be busted in an underage-sex sting set up by "Dateline" is slapping NBC with a $100 million suit.

Louis "Bill" Conradt grabbed a gun and shot himself as he spotted cops, reporter Chris Hansen and a camera crew from the popular "To Catch a Predator" segment outside his home on Nov. 5, 2006, according to a notice of claim sent to NBC yesterday.

The suit will be filed Monday in Manhattan Federal Court on behalf of his estate, said Patricia Conradt's lawyer, Bruce Baron.

"NBC was responsible for his death. They conducted their sting operation and intentionally and with negligence sensationalized the situation," Baron said.

"It brought it to the point that he died of a self inflicted gun shot wound."

The 56-year-old prosecutor, a highly praised 20-year-law enforcement veteran, allegedly went online to solicit sex from a 13-year-old boy.

Hansen and a "Dateline" crew tagged along with cops to the prosecutor's home to capture the arrest.

NBC said if a suit is filed, "we will defend ourselves vigorously, as we believe the claims are completely without merit."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07182007/tv/dateline_sued_in_sex_sting_suicide_tv_cynthia_r__f agen.htm
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Wonder if he (the prosecutor) thought he couldn't clear himself?

[Sammy]

Well, this is interesting.


STING SERIES IN LIMBO

July 13, 2007 -- NBC News officials refuse to say if the network will continue its popular "To Catch a Predator" pedophile sting series - after a Texas prosecutor dropped charges against 24 men caught by the series last year.

NBC has already produced two more "Predator" episodes, scheduled to air later this month with host Chris Hansen.

But those episodes (which air on "Dateline") were filmed last winter near Atlantic City, N.J. - before the "Predator" segment that was filmed in Murphy, Texas, resulting in legal woes that have thrown the entire series into question.

The "Predator" series has garnered "Dateline" some of its best ratings in years - while generating headlines for NBC and host Hansen.

"We are putting together the New Jersey broadcasts now and will discuss future investigations after it airs, as we always do," a "Dateline" spokesperson said yesterday.

On the show, "Dateline" works with an activist group called Perverted Justice to run stings in which adults, posing as children in Internet chat rooms, lure alleged pedophiles to a residential home.

Once they arrive at the home, they're "busted" by Hansen and a camera crew and then arrested by local police.

Among those caught last year during the online sting in Murphy was a prosecutor from a neighboring county, who committed suicide when police showed up to arrest him.

That was last fall. This past May, Collin County District Attorney John Roach dropped all charges against the 24 men, saying he had no jurisdiction in 16 of the cases - since neither the suspects nor the decoys were in the county during the online chats.

The D.A. also blamed "Dateline" and Perverted Justice for making prosecutions impossible.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132007/tv/sting_series_in_limbo_tv_don_kaplan.htm

[disrupter]

Beyond making parents & concerned adults aware of this problem,

it becomes cheap shot journalism that evades the truly significant issues with salacious sex stories.

My God, how about handing 8 Trillion dollars in IOUs to your children & the unborn, robbing them of their economic prosperity before they even cross the starting line?

So easy to feel good about condemning some pedophile while your government robs your children & the unborn blind,

oops, that would take real work & real commitment rather than an easy sugar rush high.

In some cases it borders on entrapment, as in the case of this suicide where the guy didn't even show up to meet the underage person.
These people went to his home with cameras for salacious journalism, where i don't believe he committed any crime.