And think about how many of us were made to feel uncomfortable by these people and NEVER SAID A THING…

Shame on you, Salvo. Sick fuck.

My daughter is 14, and I monitor her internet shit compulsively. But it scares me to think there are really people like this out there, working in our schools, trolling the internet for some poor unsuspecting kid to scar for life with pictures of his johnson. Gross.

Nicholas E. Salvo was charged with two counts of unlawful contact with a minor

I’m just curious, how is this possible when the minor doesn’t exist?

I mean, yeah, he was looking for minors, and he could be charged with soliciting or something, but how do you charge someone with a crime against a fictitious person?

It seems more like entrapment, even if he is a scum.

He needs to be charged with two counts of being stupid!

You couldn’t possibly be that easily confused. The phrase used was “child molestor”, which, in my opinion, is practically synonymous with “pedophile” and I felt was equally inaccurate. I equated the two in my initial comment, and the conversation got going from there.

Sure I can, you oughta know that by now I didn’t call him a “child molestor” either. Another commenter did, which I suppose is where you decided to equate the comment with calling the guy a pedophile.

But yeah. I hadn’t seen the term “pedophile” in the first several comments or anywhere in my article, so I guess i was just a little confuzzled at why the terminology debate over a term that hadn’t been used since it appeared to be a debate of semantics, and usually you’re a purist in such matters.

But now that you’ve explained it, it makes more sense. To me, a child molestor isn’t necessarily a pedophile, since a child is a legal child until the age of eighteen in most states. That’s why I was confused.

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Ya gotta give it up to Right Said Fred, people…

You couldn’t possibly be that easily confused. The phrase used was “child molestor”, which, in my opinion, is practically synonymous with “pedophile” and I felt was equally inaccurate. I equated the two in my initial comment, and the conversation got going from there.

Yes, middle schoolers could be as young as 6th grade. But this guy was a high school teacher, was he not? And he was propositioning high school aged girls, as far as he knew? As far as your statement about opportunity, I’d be interested to see how easily that line can be crossed. If guys who lust after high school girls would just as easily proposition a little kid, pedophilia is FAR more pervasive than I think anyone imagines. To me, there’s a huge difference between pre and post-pubescent. Since his history focused on post-pubescent girls, I find it hard to believe he’s a mere opportunist.

And, Morbid, I’m not sure you understand what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that pedophilia is about the “who”, not the “how”. Yes, he attempted to consort with a certain demographic, and positioned himself among them professionally. These are the tricks of the trade for any predator. People who like to prey on helpless people tend to locate themselves in hospitals or as care-takers. People who like to prey on old folks may take up in retirement homes. This guy likes high school girls, so he became a high school teacher. He could have just as easily became a middle or elementary school teacher, if prepubescent kids got him off. But there’s nothing here to suggest he’s attracted to prepubescent children. As a result, I find him being labeled a “child molestor” (or pedophile) to be inaccurate.

But, it doesn’t look like we’re going to find common ground on this one, and that’s totally cool.

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Not sure of the deal – but that program was a freakin’ public service!

To some extent. But just like the show Cops within it’s first few seasons, it’s not a good idea to have the media controlling law enforcement.

Not sure of the deal – but that program was a freakin’ public service!

Also had some freaky deaky teachers – scariest ones were in 4th & 5th grades (late 60’s) – I LIKED my “groovy” h.s. teachers in the 70’s compared to the old farts – many partied with us with no harm done.

That’s all that I was trying to point out. The overuse of the term “pedophile” is a pet peeve, I guess.

I’m a little confused, because I never referred to Salvo as a pedophile in my article or in the tags for same. And none of the first five comments before yours, A., called him a pedophile either. In fact, you were the first person to use the word on this thread.

That said, middle school students are as young as sixth grade (fifth in my community) and many of them do hang out on the teen chat sites. “Any young girls for a hot older man” doesn’t necessarily mean “any girls in ninth grade or older.”

I think he’s an opportunist, and would probably do a ten year old as easily as a fifteen year old. Whoever was in that chat room was fair game for webcam video of him wanking his schlong… he had no way of knowing how young the recipients were. Do I think he’s a pedophile? Oh, probably. More likely he’s a Humbert, but whatever. He still deserves to be slapped. Hard.

We can call him a pedophile or a panther for all I care, he is still a scum bag that deserves to have his scrotum yanked off.

This isn’t a guy who saw a hot 14-year-old at the mall or some outing, or a neighborhood cookout. This is a man who was in a teen chat room, engaged with sexual activities with a supposed 14-year-old and soliciting the other teens in the chat room, who surrounds himself with the the same aged children…teaching, coaching, etc.