People who knew men on "To Catch A Predator" before the show, what were they like?
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Guess Nickelodeon just “didn’t know” about the disgusting acts of Dan Schneider 🙄😒😤
People who make others a lot of money tend to get a pass.
hush money, amigo
hush money
Dan was really good at getting fetish acts disguised on tv. He was also like a lot of the producers of the time that were total aholes and bullies because the people above them were much worse
Viacom paid him to leave from what I read
he was paid off. He was just a total jerk to work for... and yeah the feet stuff is creepy and done for his own amusement but he just one in a literal sea of snakes@@kaosforever2008
Nickelodeon stating they have “zero tolerance for any misdeeds involving children” is the best joke I’ve heard all week😂
especially considering john k, creator of ren and stimpy 💀
Max (formerly HBO Max) is set to air a special series starting March 17 (2024) about the child predators and the behind-the-scenes problems with predatory behavior at Nickelodeon. From their trailer, it seems that some of the survivors are telling their stories in public for the first time, and some are still so traumatized, they will not be revealing their identities - that's just my impression from the trailer, and I may be wrong about that second part, but they did allude to the idea that some of these stories have never been told before.
Yeah, especially considering that I once heard that they ended up hiring that guy back.
Dan Schneider
I was gonna say, they should run this same background check on Dan Schneider....guy's sketchy as heck and there's video footage of some of his behavior, too.
My ex step dad was caught by Truckers Against Predators a few years ago. Im not sure if you can find the video, but he actually shits himself during the sting 😂😂😂😂😂
I wish I had an ex stepdad 😞
Did you grow up with "Shits in pants"? Lol
If so, did you suspect he was a Sick Shite?
@@noracola5285what?
Dude what the Fu*k is wrong with you?
Wow! Yall are OK though? I know some of these things can drag a family thru some s*it. A family member being arrested for something horrific.
Sending love to you @@noracola5285
At one time my cousin had a boyfriend, around the time I was 11 or 12, and the family made sure that me and all the younger cousins knew that his name was Chester the Molester,. The whole family called him that straight to his face until eventually she broke up with him. Turns out that's exactly who he was
Ok, your family is based and your younger cousins won the lottery.
?? Was she 11?? This story has many holes. I am confused?
@@Ryukikon Reread it. The writer was 11 or 12, not the cousin.
Your family did amazing!
@@EmmersonColeNah. If they were based, they wouldn’t invite the cousin and bf to the function. Why tf would you invite a predator a place around kids? Protect children, not adults feelings.
I went to a school that hired a principal after he impregnated a student at another school. They also kept a teacher after he was arrested for trying to solicit a 12 year old. No one wanted to take his class, and the school forced ppl. He invited the boys to his house for "tutoring" and to this day he still teaches kids dancing and is a "pillar of the community" 😡
You went to a school that hired a principal after he impregnated a student at another school??? How is he not in jail?
@@ZalemMoon At the highschool I just graduated from one of our gym teachers impregnated a 16 year old girl. Another teacher who called gay kids slurs and threw staplers at them. And one that I personally reported because he was sexually harassing me and could have easily been fired because he wasn't even done his trial period yet. They kept all three of them. There are plenty more shitty teachers too because my area is shit I WISH I was lying but this isn't that uncommon
@@ZalemMoon fucked up justice system most likely
My entire education was destroyed because the principal named Bill Runey who did not like me at the first school was fired for sleeping with an office secretary but the community and district covered it up as "he got a better job offer from the public school so he is leaving the Catholic school" which is really spineless and the town only had those two schools so when I was removed from his first school for political activism sent to the other school he was then principal of and he preemptively acted out of vengeance, funneled all of his hatred for his former school into my attempt to rebuild my life and tried to have an expulsion hearing before I was even a student with no charges or allegations. It was one of the most evil character assassination attempts I have ever experienced and I was only a child.
Thank you for sharing your experience. You reminded me of how easily people in these positions get off and repackaged for another opportunity many people will never get because they lack the connections.
@@ZalemMoon many reasons, unfortunately. 1) a lot of the time, pedophiles gain sympathy from the judge, to which the judge is like “ah, I won’t ruin your whole life because you’re a kiddie fiddler. Just enough to get you straight and find Jesus, and you’re golden! No one except for Jesus has to forgive you!!” 2) probably not enough evidence, which a paternity test could be the evidence but did the girl push for a paternity test? Unfortunately some victims might just brush it off as something they consented to and now they have to deal with the consequences. Which shouldn’t be that way, but is unfortunately. That’s what they teach us as girls, to forgive and forget everything. Even horrifying traumatic experiences. 3) They live in Texas. That’s self-explanatory.
The red dead redemption horse trails are far better to enjoy the stories with. As pretty as the Minecraft parkour is I find it a bit nauseating at times
Yeah too much movement this is nice :)
Yeah, exactly. I mostly listen in the background of working, but occasionally I'll look over and it's like BAM colour and movement. This is more calming.
Thank you I was wondering what game it was. My son actually looked over to follow the horse.
Dude I thought I was the only one. Have to just close up my laptop cuz I get so nauseous while watching MC Parkour stories
@@ma13volent I normally don’t get dizzy or nauseous from those types of videos idk if maybe it was the colors of the park or or if there was like a wide angle fish eye effect on it. But there was some about them that made the room spinny 😅
"we had no idea" = "we all knew and just ignored it because we didn't wanna bring shame to our family."
Ask reddit a question.
95% percent of answers.
"Not actually what you asked for, but...."
Quora is even worse
Well, in reality 80% of people have nothing to add, 19,5% have something somewhat related to add, and maybe 0,5% can answer directly. So the result is that most answers are just the "somewhat" related ones.
A bunch of people wanting attention because they have a story that relates to, but isn't what was asked. That's Reddit for you and it's fucking cringe because they're all looking for awards for inviting themselves into topics they have to business being in.
Because these questions are so hyperspecific that there's a low chance it'll even be seen by someone who's experienced it. At least it got somewhat relevant responses
''not what you asked for but here's my own sob story because i can't not be the center of attention''
Am I having a stroke? I'm at 3:50 and I swear the same thing was said 3 or 4 times
had to look for this comment, im like what the f.
Yep can confirm that was a very weird edit or lack of edit or whatever.
You’re not having a stroke buddy boy😭
Yes
It happens a lot sometimes
My Grand Aunts’ Son (My Fathers’ Cousin) wasn’t technically featured on this specific show, but they had an episode of him on the UA-cam channel “Predator Poachers” a month back. He was found to have 6 GB’s of child you know what on his phone. Aswell as admitting to sexually assaulting the kids he babysat. He admitted to being child you know what addict for about 15 years. Which really nerves me because he was at every single family gathering. He’d always be by the kids. He never touched us or anything but he was creepy. He was nice but also creepy. He messed up his life around 2021. He got divorced and was homeless for about a week before living in the basement of my great grandmothers house. He also got fired due to Covid and just messed up his life overall. He is a sick individual. Just sucks me to my stomach. I’m glad he never assaulted me but I’m truly sorry to the families of the kids he did. If anyone wants to look him up his name is “Dominic Barbagallo”.
I saw that one. So glad they caught him and he was charged.
Thank you for naming and shaming him. I’m so sorry you were even around this creep.
Wow really, I’m sorry. I watch predator poachers all the time, and always wonder what the family think. Did you find out as it was live?
I really don't know why they don't give much longer sentences for child predators. I was called into jury duty about a week ago and the case ended up being about "sexual misconduct with a child". (I live in Texas btw) Before they picked the jury, they went over all the "you can't be bias" and instructional stuff, as they always do. But then they got to the prison sentence, the options were: "5-20 years in prison or probation" Those were the only options. Everyone immediately voted out probation. I wanted more than 20 years, but that just wasn't an option. I didn't get picked for the Jury so I don't know how it ended.
Sadly, most predators get only 1-5 years, and they often re-offend many times and get the same sentence. They won't be permanently put in prison till they have done it multiple times and the damage is already done to multiple kids.
I get innocent until proven guilty, its just insane how they expect a little kid to get proof that this happened to them, and then they are expected to stand in front of strangers in a court and talk about what happened to them in detail. No wonder they don't always come forward, thats terrifying.
I think they already get harsh sentences. I think probation doesn’t solves anything neither does 5-20 years. If it were up to me I’d incorporate Canada’s system, give non violent sexual predators free but state mandated therapy for 2 years, a trade or vocational school option to better themselves & mental health checks every month for 2 years.
Sex offenses in general don't get super long sentences, a lot of the time they just get parol
@@MeowthGamer19wtf so instead of consequences they get therapy and an education??? so there are just no repercussions for literally assaulting another human being for sick sadistic purposes??
Actually the reoffending thing is kind of a myth well somewhat of a myth. The reoffending rates for sex offenders is like 5 to 6% for sex crimes but they have like a 60% rate for breaking their probation. Rightfully restrictive probation.
@@MeowthGamer19 it does solve them not re offending. psychologsist have said time and time again that sexual offenders d have almost a 0 chance of rehabilitation. they have 0 remorse for what they do or have done or want to do. they dont see their victims as human beings so they feel no remorse if anything they might feel anger at their victims for reporting them and the chance of them getting revenge is high. the sentencing is not harsh enough. sentencing should not just be about the perpetrator but also about the victim. its about justice the victim and potential victims need to be safe and also society. there are places where people and their kids and women cant live in peace and freedom becuase they need to navigate the risk and threat that predators are in their communities. 2 years is too short of a time to deal with the mental problems that these type of criminals have. The "harsh" sentencing they get is NOTHING compared to the damage that they create in a persons life or the community. Also what the heck is a "non violent" sexual predator? all sexual assault/abuse is violence. Vocational school or a trade does not make a person better themselves in how they treat others. There are predators in all kinds of vocational fields from politicians, bloody presidents to teachers, doctors, pastors, office workers, military, police offiers, lawyers etc. Predators getting job means nothing in terms of if they will harm others or not. Most of the times they even use those jobs to get away with harming others or accessing victim. like the ones who become teachers to get access to children, or pastors to get the social buff and image, or lawyers and police offers to have their corrupot buddy system to protect them from consequences. The very fact that predators get awawy with a slap on their wrist is the direct involvement of law enforment who are predators and governance who are predators affecting the laws and making it easier and not a problem at all for predators to harm people and get away with it easily. Sexual predators have no buisness being around any human beings. They are parasites and cancer to humanity in every sense of the word
A few years ago, a guy that used to live in my neighborhood contacted me on social media telling me how he always found me attractive. I met him when I was 7. We moved when I was around 10. He would have been in his 30s.
thats so weird
How long did you two date?
I've unfortunately had two teachers who were allegedly caught for "liking" the students. The first was a middle school gym teacher. Because of him, the other teachers got really on my ass to wear a bra, but I didn't want to bc I had sensory issues from adhd (possibly autism too). Eventually ofc I relented bc if I didn't wear one it would kinda hurt to run lol. I don't remember that gym teacher ever giving me bad vibes, but it was so long ago.
The next one though, a high school math teacher, DEFINITELY gave me bad vibes. I would often catch him staring at me during work time in class and he'd just tell me to smile... Just thinking about the way he said it sends shivers down my spine 😬. However, even though he creeped me tf out, I never quite connected the dots about WHY until after he was gone. I was a very oblivious 14yo and only in hindsight realize I shouldn't have worn low-cut shirts as often as I did, even though that obviously doesn't make it justified. I just didn't think anyone (especially an ADULT) could ever see me in that way bc I was so young (and looked even younger than I was), my boobs were still modest A cups, and I was chubby so I thought I was ugly. I was also the youngest one in the class for reasons that aren't important, but man does it make his fixation on me specifically worse. I was a year younger than all the other students in that class. I'm pretty sure he gave me a better grade than I should have gotten too, bc I've always been horrible at math and nearly failed all my math classes afterwards, even with a tutor helping me.
He also used to stalk my bff, who was the same age as me and didn't even take his class. He'd offer her rides home all the time, but she never accepted. She walked home bc she lived within 3 miles of the school so couldn't ride the bus and her parents couldn't pick her up for various reasons. She said he'd follow her home in his car sometimes and claimed he lived nearby. Maybe he actually did, but either way it was still super creepy.
Anyways, he was fired and possibly arrested the year after I took his class. Rumor was that he tried to proposition a student to "pleasure" him after class, and she basically ran away screaming. When I heard I was kinda surprised, but also not surprised (like an initial shock, but followed by a quick realization). It really sucks that people like that exist and are able to put themselves in positions where they are close to kids.
I won't say much but my ex friend's dad was a creep who did stuff to my sister (I won't say a lot to keep certain things private) but after it happened my sister would keep it a secret for 3 years and had severe anger issues which would make me go to my room and cry (I was 9 or 10) I still get scared when she screams or cry's and I still go into my room and hold back tears I'm not crying as much now but I still get scared a little
Pray for him
We had two teachers in our Highschool. One has been there for years, even my older sister had him as a teacher, and she’s 7 years older than I am. Anyways if any girls wore a low cut t-shirt during test days they would all pass. He’s still a teacher and nothing has came out against him but everyone knows he’s a creep and he’s a 9th grade teacher. Other was a coach, guy came from the panthers to help with the football team. Got caught with one of the seniors but she was 17. The rumors got so bad the principal eventually stepped in and asked him. This was 2018
@@christianpalmer so you wont pray for the victim? i pray he stays locked up so he cant harm anyone else ever again. thats the best for everyone involved.
@@rene3759 pray for the victims and that the holy spirit will change him that's the best
I have a cousin who was highly intelligent, polite, quiet, and never volunteered to work around children. When he was caught with copious amounts of child material on his computer, it honestly came as a massive shock. I even shared an apartment with him for a year, and he never gave off any creepy vibes. He ended up spending over a decade in a federal prison because he was caught sharing material over Yahoo chat. When he got out, he had no teeth and was not the same person as when he went in.
Damn... the prison dental coverage must be awful.
@@iansrife5107 Yeah, it's a special dental plan called "Ped-Oh-No-Teef".
@@iansrife5107 It is, but I find it more likely someone beat him up given the circumstances.
You keep repeating parts
I thought I was tripping
Yep
Longer video = more watch time = more turnover
I seriously thought I was having some fucked up adhd deja vu
It's just something he has to work on.
When I married at 20 and had my first a year later, I would never leave him in the care of my BIL, despite everyone telling me how good he was with kids and his own daughters would be there too. 10 years later, busted for abusing his daughters and his GF (from before marriage) children (girls and a boy). My ex husband used to ask how I knew, I didn't, I just knew he wasn't right.
Narrator, I'm with you about story 22. What's going on is an unbalanced power dynamic. It's why counselors / case managers / therapists aren't allowed to date former clients
While I get what you're saying The fact of the matter is is they were both legal adults making legal adult choices in which the district had no business sticking their noses in it was wrong for him to be fired that'd be like a company firing someone for dating a former employee and calling it fraternization. But I will say yes it is a bit of a gray area because he was her teacher at one point in time but even at that time they were both still legal adults making legal adult choices.
@@hoenir_the_silent you see, I'm not so sure about the legality though. In my profession, this would be grounds for immediate termination and forfeiture of my license to practice mental health
Power imbalances are a good thing imo
Now that I think about it, when I was 12 in high school, most girls in my class dated 15-17 years old teenagers. They didn’t seemed to care much of them, treating them as a joke while dating girls their Age at the same time, and girls my Age seemed to want more to brag they were with the “Cool older boys” than anything else. Now that I think of it it was fucked up in many ways
We usually called teens dating 2yrs or younger Cradle Robbers, at least in my highschool.
@Crosbhealach see I had this same mindset too. Going out with someone more than 2 grades above or below was inappropriate when I was growing up, but thats not saying it didn't happen.
At my highschool, I remember a senior from the soccer team dating a freshman and I remember there being talk around the school about it. It seemed to die down after a few weeks tho. To be completely fair, last I heard this couple was still together to this day - kids of their own and all. So I guess it's not always nefarious when this happens, idk
It's not fucked up at all. It's entirely normal lmao.
Wait, you were 12 in highschool? 🤨
@@jojothermidorobviously its not to most people lol
I love the RDR2 background so much! I find some of the parkour type backgrounds move so much that it gives me motions sickness if I watch it for too long.
I saw R2D2 at first and was super confused. Lol. I did wonder if this was RDR though, I've always wanted to play it.
I also agree with the parkour games being difficult to actually watch. I'm hard of hearing so I'm grateful for the subtitles but as someone who gets motion sick fairly easy, it sometimes sucks when it's those videos. Though I'd love to play most of the games they show. I just can't read along on some.
Bro needs to feed his dang horse tho lol. But I agree, sometimes the parkour moves too fast for my eyes
I used to hang out with Joe Wunderler in my teens. We hung out a bunch of times, always called him Wonderbread. He was always pretty quiet, but respectful. I know he was having a hard time at home, but he wouldn't talk about it much. I ended up moving away for a few years and lost track of him. I was completely shocked and horrified when I saw him on TCAP. I honestly never expected that to come from him.
When I watch these court videos of men who have SA children but have their families, friends, and more give statements on what amazing people they are and how they shouldn’t go to jail because they are a productive member of society and won’t do it again, it just sickens me. How can ANYONE support someone who does such a horrible thing? If I were asked to give a statement for someone like that I would easily say I cannot do that, and if I was pushed and pushed, they would NOT like what I had to say on the day of the hearing.
Nickoloden had a more rigorous vetting process than other studios.
"Other studios" including the one with Harvey Weinstein.
The bar is on the ground here.
Not TCAP, but a dean/graphic arts teacher at my high school was caught a few years ago on one of those vigilante predator hunting streams, trying to meet up with a 14 year old boy. I didn’t have many interactions with him during my time in high school, but we always had a mutual respect for one another. He seemed like a nice and reasonable guy, albeit a little socially awkward
There are some states that the offense had to be of a certain level of depravity for a convict to be required to register as an offender. In one state I lived in a guy getting caught in a Chris Hansen situation would not be required to register as no physical abuse actually happened. One police department in that state turns the evidence over to the FBI so that the offender is prosecuted federally instead of under the state's laws.
I know of an individual (rather not dwell on how or why I knew him) that was caught in a similar setup by the FBI. They knew what they were doing when they set him up to travel across state lines so it would be federal. They made him believe he was meeting a 12 yr old and her 9 yr old sister. Under Federal law if you take the steps to do it it's the same as if you did it.
My old psychiatrist, a child psychiatrist, got caught filming a young boy at a public urinal. I think one of the dads caught him and they confronted him outside the toilet while waiting for police to get there, they filmed him the entire time and stopped him from leaving. I remember watching the video and seeing the panic in his eyes as he realised he was fucked. Anyway, he got arrested, they found more CP on his devices including other boys he filmed in public bathrooms, and once the story went public he had 9 former patients come forward accusing him of sexual assault. What he did was say that he needed to do a "physical exam" on the patients before prescribing medication but that was just bullshit and he just used it to get the young boys, most under 12, to strip and then he would inappropriately touch them while pretending it was part of the exam. This all happened a few years after I'd been his patient, when I saw him he was working with a government clinic but later he went on to start his own private clinic which is where this all happened. I was 15 when I saw him, I'd gone through puberty pretty early and I have a Slavic background so I had a beard and was taller than him when I was his patient so I don't think I was ever at risk but it still freaks me out just thinking about the what ifs of it all. My parents and I all remember him as being pretty weird and very smug/condescending, we weren't fans even before the news broke.
People who are really nice are either genuinely nice or are preying on people in their most vulnerable state. Kindness is helping people who are vulnerable in some way
I hate when a post asks a specific question and people who don’t fit the criteria still answer anyway. "He wasn’t on To Catch A Predator but…" I want to hear from people who knew someone busted on that show, which is a unique set of circumstances. People really don’t know how to follow instructions.
Not a Catch A Predator story, but a story that happened to me when I was around 7 or 8.
My parents usually let me walk home with my older cousin. On this day I had to walk alone since my cousin was sick and off school. While walking home (it was like 4 blocks away from the school), a vehicle stopped next to me and offered me a lift. I didn't know the person and declined, stating that I was right around the corner and I'm meeting with friends in half an hour (I didn't have friends at the time, and just lied off the top of my head). The person left me be and I told my parents about the encounter. They congratulated me for what I said, hugged me, and were overall thankful that I was okay.
When I turned 16, I learned that the guy who tried to pick me up was the stepfather of someone in my family, and if memory serves, had molested someone in my family when they were 13-14 (back in the 80's), and had assaulted 2 to 4 other girls under the age of 10 before the person in my family. What really gets my blood boiling is that the only reason he didn't get thrown in jail is because the court refused to let his victims testify against him.
It still makes me anxious thinking of what would have happened to me had I entered the vehicle, and makes me royally pissed off at knowing that disease is still running free in society
You were a smart kid. Thank God nothing of the sort happened to you
I wonder if all these folks who are "super helpful, upstanding citizens" who do this stuff are actually just compensating for their evilness. Jimmy Saville apparently was like that - he genuinely thought that him opening up children's hospitals and doing other great things counteracted his r(a)ping a four year old girl in the back of a church (iirc). Like, they know they're doing terrible things to some people, so they act super nice to others because that's how they sleep at night. "Well, at least I [insert nice deed here]"
most likely. if the guy that raised money for the new boys and girls club/children's hospital/child w/e spends extra time with kids, it wont be weird. get reports of touching, well he brushed up against them of parents are just looking to sue for money. has a reputation thatwould be hard to tear down
This has to be your wildest video
Agreed
Yea… 😭
Are you a burger
The one who didn't get charged wasn't exactly an innocent bystander "just along for the ride." If I remember correctly, he had also engaged in on-line chats with the same undercover operative as his friend. However, his chats didn't contain anything explicit, so they weren't able to charge him. That was the only one on TCAP that I know of who didn't have to go to prison.
Uhh ok, and? If he wasn't talking explicitly they don't have anything to go on. Could he be planning something? Not out of the realm of possibility. But it's not a guarantee either.
But most importantly you're mistaken. He didn't chat with anyone. Sabastian asked and David went with him. You're confusing it with someone caught in the various stings that did get released because they didn't have enough evidence to say they were soliciting. Usually PJ wouldn't give the address until it's clear they were going to try to meet for illicit purposes but a few slipped through were the intentions weren't clear.
You beat me to it . I agree tho. You are confusing David Macak with another tag along. David never had a chat with a decoy that we know of
ok... there cant be THIS many ppl that can respond to this question...
(I got way too much attention from this stupid comment lol)
U recon they capin?
I went to scouts with someone who did crimes against children. You wouldn't have known.
I Dont know. The Show is old and many people watch IT and are on Reddit. So the Chances of someone working/knowing someone and seeing the question are Not to Bad I guess
You’d be surprised(sure some of these may be lying, but I have a feeling most of these are true)most CPreds do have people who know them, usually working regular jobs.
How many seasons are there n how many episodes per season? I mean there’s at least a million people out there that can answer this question
I'll never understand people that sexually assault kids, I'm 21 and I wouldn't date anyone under 17, and even then it would have to be someone who's mature.
Im 16 and i was dating a 21 year old until he got in trouble with the cops so understand where your coming from
3 reasons from what ive seen on tcap.
1. Loniness and desperation (incels), that lookfor any sort of attention and intimacy.
2. Fetishism. People who are actual pedos (as in prefer children)nand never get the help they need to not be an offender.
3. Powerplay. People who like feeling powerful but can only do so with kids.
All of em are problems but fixable if the will is there.
It’s about power & control for guys (and gals) who don’t have self-esteem, young ones are easy to coerce & manipulate. Just like rape has very little to do with sex, dating minors is about supremacy over the other, because person of same age and status is too intimidating. Guys marrying minors are abusers nearly every time, I have trouble with laws that condone this.. Sometimes I wonder what some balding dude talks about with 12 years olds anyways, it’s just sad as hell.
We will never understand because we aren't wired that way but sadly and naturally a massive amount of men are like that, and in history it's actually been considered normal. Look at romans and there trips away with young boys.
If you'd date a 17yo at the age of 21 you're fucked up. That's not the argument you think it is, get help.
I knew one, but ironically he was like a horny teenager pretending to be older to get laid and idiotically went to an sting thinking he'd get laid. they handled him pretty badly until they realized that he was in fact an teenager judging by his IDs and fingerprints. in fact, he was actually younger than the supposed teenage girl he was trying to meet. the only humorous to catch a predator story that I know of, actually. Unsurprisingly they didn't mention this at all on the TV show of course. but it did make me wonder how many false positives they caught, because no way that idiot wasn't the only one to pretend they were something else if they thought it could get them laid.
What episode of TCAP a predator is this, sounds wild
@@aeris2001 ua-cam.com/video/9zw9M3uQpOk/v-deo.htmlsi=NDaNIf9E6HcFW3A1
apparently teenagers get caught all the time...
Edit: edited for better link and stuff.
23:54 real, I went to a game design workshop over the summer and had a chubby quiet awkward nerdy guy in my group. He even had a bit of a neckbeard going on. But the kid was so chill and sweet. I think we were both 16 then?? Only knew him for that 2 week period but dude was amazing.
23:53 Naw this narrator’s opinion on the chubby quite nerd bs is too funny 😂💀
I mean, he is right. Not all chubby nerds are predators. 😭
For story 1 he deserved to be banned from family events those girls did not deserve an upskirt photos
I went to school with Vincent Ambrosio, the guy whose footage never made it to air, but you can find on UA-cam. Pretty much everyone called him "the cowboy" due to his tendency to wear a ridiculous cowboy hat (we were in the suburbs in New York), button up shirts, and blue jeans no matter the heat. Despite how he dressed, he never really stood out much otherwise. He was quiet, and the only times I ever interacted with him were due to him being close with a guy in my friend group. I know he was kind of nerdy, loved country music and westerns, and from our interactions I got the sense he was a no nonsense type of guy who took most things seriously. He never really gave off any red flags that I saw, but I can't say I knew him that well as a person either. Still wild to me that he was capable of trying something so heinous
I know I’m clinically crazy but there’s so many things being repeated and stories blending together to the point I feel like I’ve finally snapped and need to go back to the ward 💀
7:29 thank you for this - it is a necessary recontextualization and made me feel much more comfortable as a viewer not having to hear that word so carelessly used to describe such horrific situations.
I don’t only listen to this channel for the stories, but also for the comments. The narrator is a very thoughtful and emotionally intelligent person.
Used to smoke with this one kid in 04. I was 21 and he just graduated high school. Someone brought him around and he seemed a little weird, but pretty cool. Fast forward 16 years. I'm married with 2 kids and about to buy a house. The former owners warned us about an older guy in the neighborhood who was on the registry (almost 4 years in there's been no problem on that). This did give me the idea to scan around other areas where loved ones live. Sure enough.... That kid i used to smoke with had numerous abusive images on his phone an was busted for it at some point. Apparently it wasn't much of a surprise to those who knew him later on.
The guy who worked for nickelodeon was justin smith" the guy named dave is david Kaye.
Dave is not Rabbi David Kaye
Like five of these stories: "This one (guy in a position of fairly unaccountable power, usually a cop) was always so nice to me and seemed intelligent, but turned out to be a child predator. It sure does seem like anyone at all can be a child-toucher."
Story 21, yeah, that's the reality of small town living. It's why so many people have this "just don't talk about it" attitude with stuff like this. Jobs need to be filled. Specialized jobs need specialized people. And those people don't just pop up out of nowhere when a position is vacated. If the people hiring just need a specialized warm body to fill a space, they will overlook a LOT. Even the stuff like what's in this video. It's horrific, but like the poster said, if the school's only options are hire a p-word as a teacher or not have enough staff to teach their students, they're going to make the call that gives them the least amount of grief and just look the other way.
Having a short wife doesn't make someone a predator... But it does make sense that a predator would find someone short appealing.
Fun fact... I think it's in Brazil I don't remember but apparently they restrict how short an actress can be in a porn film. Which is hilarious in itself.
I have a personal experience, however it was one of those youtube channels and not the actual show. I went to rehab with this kid named mason and he was 19 at the time, people would always talk about how creepily obssessed he was with the program directors son (13 yrs old). Long and behold, about a year after I was released from there, one of my buddies sent me a UA-cam video link, and it was classic TCAP style video of him getting caught red handed by a small youtube channel. It was disturbing when my brain finally connected that to his weird obsession with the 13yr old in that rehab. Cant make this stuff up.
12:42 This gets dangerous with the dating apps. I've heard of a few cases where girls lie about their age to hide the fact that they're underage relative to the guy they're trying to hook up with.
And when I was about six or seven me and my little friend were playing in our bathing suits out in the yard of our apartment building in a mud puddle. I remember this Hispanic man probably in his twenties or thirties coming out and asking us if he could take pictures of us. On one hand I was a child so didn't think a whole lot of it but at the same time I knew something was off enough and felt weird enough about it to tell him no and then immediately go tell my mom. She went out and flipped out on this dude. I sort of forgot all about it or thought nothing of it after that and I don't remember ever seeing the guy again but looking back now I've always wondered what happened to that man and where his life went from there and if he's in jail or if he ended up doing something a lot worse to any young girls. It's always worried me. I really hope that was like a one-off and he never got his hands on any little girls
This wasn’t on to catch a predator, but close enough. When my older brother and I(f) were young (around the ages of 10 until 14) we did Tae Kwon Do together. There was this one teacher, Mr. Garcia, who was probably in his late twenties/early thirties. He was super popular with the other girls in my class, since he was playful and cool with them. My brother and I are both autistic little cave dwellers, so we would usually be found sitting in a dark corner away from the other children, grooming each other like chimpanzees and screeching at anyone who got too close. A bit of an exaggeration, but you see my point. He didn’t much care for me, because I was weird, so I was never subjected to his creepy flirting.
Anyways, my bro and I had a joke that he was actually a pedo. We’d call him “Pedo Garcia.” I know, that’s a fucked up nickname, but he just gave us such bad vibes, and it felt like no one else saw him the way we did! We’d quietly watch him mess around with the other girls my age, then just lean over to each other and say “Pedo Garcia is on the prowl.” And then laugh quietly.
One day, my mom was driving us to practice, when she said “I’m telling you this now so you don’t talk about it with anyone in class. You must keep this to yourselves. Mr. Garcia was arrested Wednesday for molesting a young girl.” Me and bro looked at each other and burst out laughing. Mom was so confused, so we had to tell her how we had always gotten a bad vibe from him.
I must’ve been around 13/14 when this happened
Nickelodeon saying they have zero tolerance for this crap is the stupidest bs I’ve ever heard
The dad with "good people reading skills" has been abused before. He knows what that look feels like and what it means
Also I just realized I'm playing red dead 2 while listening to this and just looked at the screen to see its the BG
"no one could tell" is almost always a lie. It's far easier (and looks better) to feign ignorance so no one can question why you didnt do more. Its bs to avoid accountability
I had a teacher who was fired from a previous school for sleeping with a former male student she was a great teacher & i didnt mind going to her class i never suspected her of having done that idk how she ended up getting a teaching job at a different school
Unfortunately, schools are a lot more forgiving toward female sexual abusers than male sexual abusers.
Back around 2011 I traveled back to my hometown to visit my parents. While I was there I thought Id look on the registry and see if anyone I used to know was on it. I saw at least 20 people that I either knew or recognized. Almost all of them were on it for statutory but a few were pedos 🤢
But... he was a graduate... from Juggalo University 😮🤣🤣👍
When I was in middle school it was common knowledge that a teacher was dating his former student. They now live up the street from me and shes only allowed to walk around the block so far, ive never seen her in their one car
Burning Man is a place for everyone open minded enough to give it a chance. There is an amazing gifting economy, camaraderie like you couldn't imagine until you've seen it. There is actually a space set aside for families with children, with wristbands to tell which family kids belong to, a child minding co-op, etc. Burning Man (while I am childfree and my only experience with a child is that of a friend) is the most amazing place I've ever been. There are multiple police forces patrolling, a zero--tolerance policy, etc. And surprisingly, it's not the federal guys who are the most aggressive...its the local sheriff's deputies... . So while I will never defend a child predator, I will defend Burning Man untill my final breath.
RIVERSIDE?!?! I LIVE THERE
The city or county
Florida or not is the better question
there are probably like 50 riversides though
He wasn't on the show but he definitely would have been if it was still filming. He was our schools football coach. I won't say his name but his initials were SG. If you know, you know. He was found with cp on his computer and was caught in a sting. It was pretty awkward at school when he was found out. The ironic thing is, he helped me out when I was being sexualy harassed by another student. To add salt onto an already open wound for his mother, she worked in the middle school, people blamed her and started verbally and physically attacking her. I feel bad for her. She didn't know.
I have too many stories. At least 6-10 people. They are everywhere.
I had a teacher in 7th grade that taught my drama and chorus classes. He was always so awkward and I got an odd feeling about him. He always wanted me to stay after class and talk to him and I made friends with him over a year or two. Then he just disappeared. Apparently he was fired for having child porn and I literally had no idea. I'm honestly stressed about it because he was always so close to me and it's likely something bad could have happened.....
"She called 999 after" I don't remember any Brits on the show but I could be wrong I guess
If these are your clips from red dead. For the love of god take better care of your horse. I felt so bad seeing how tired it often was in this video.
In some families "noone knew" means "we all suspected"
Not on the official "Catch a Predator" show, but more so a guy on UA-cam pretended to be a 13 year old girl and caught him in the act of trying to "hook up" with "her" while "she" was supposed to be in school. I didn't know this man long, I'm 20 years old, I met him like near the end of 2023 and him being caught was as of recently, but still, I considered him family, but I have a feeling that's not how he saw me.
Before the video, I met him through my sister; First Red Flag when when he said "She looks sexy", (She's two years older than me and we're both like around 5'4, but again, still adults anyways so we just thought he was just being a little bit of an annoying pig), she got pretty upset about it, I told her to drop his ass, he ended up apologizing, she said she forgave him and eventually had me warm up to him due to not wanting me to hate him. I found out through my sister that he was in a relationship a woman we knew in our neighborhood, a mother of two sweet girls, one 9 I think and one 13-? Those two girls were at "dad" basis with him, I thought nothing of it, he was what the average annoying, sort of traditional man acted liked, y'know.. So if the kids are comfortable with him, no problem, right?
He and the woman who I'm gonna call "Ariel" would invite me and my sister to hang out with them after my sister recently got a dogs and the man, (Who I'm not gonna even hide his name because fuck you), Brian.
I'd like to point out that mostly me, but my sister too do not have a good relationship with our father, it's a bit of a complicated story, so my sister started to call Brian "dad", he never seemed to minded and went with it, but then, on a Halloween night he and Ariel had us come along, I made an off-hand joke about him being everybody's funny uncle due to him being "a little" out-of-touch with the modern age, (making comments like; "I don't care what your gender is, as long you don't identify as a cat" and "Girls wear too short shorts nowadays and its slutty, nobody needs to see that". My dad made similar comments like this growing up so it was something I was used to).
Anyways, his reaction to my joke about him being an uncle seemed to off-put him, like he made a face and said nothing, but I brushed it off.
ANOTHER FACT ABOUT HIM I JUST REMEMBERED: He commonly always.. knew where we were?? Obviously my sister would tell him because he would offer to drive us, but there would be times this man would pick me up out of nowhere, (I'd ask my sister if she knew, she always said no), it was probably still a coincidence since it was like a twice or thrice times he did this, and one of the times his step daughters were with him getting pizza so.
Something that's still fresh in my mind is this one time he walked u p to me to talk on my way back home in the neighborhood from shopping for some groceries and pulled into an abrupt hug, one hand on the back of my head, the other wrapped around me, and honestly, in that moment, I thought I felt happy about it?? I don't get hugs a lot, they mean a lot to me. I told my online friends about it but left out HOW he hugged me due to feeling like they'd call him a creep, (which, if any of us knew, would be their right).
Then my sister's friend found the "Catch A Predator" video, from what I know, he definitely got kicked out since, y'know, the girls the guy into was 13, one of his step daughters were 13, I mean, you should kick out predators from your house anyways, regardless if you have children.
Me and my sister distanced myself from him, and that's that.
I don't think my sister talks to Ariel either still since my sister has been busy with college and all, I certainly haven't since I'm honestly afraid to ever see him again and I don't plan to EVER do that.
you were being hard ore groomed. none of that was coincidences, predators eho have children often use their children as a lure to get you comfortable aroudn then, or to get you to depend on them emotionally, you were vulnerable kids, thats why he targetted y'all.
Predators are horrible, im so sorry, the feelings can be confusing, you can feel love for the person who was doing that to you at some point or have a weird trauma response to them and you feel ashamed and guilty, for perfectly normal reactions to grooming.
im sorry, i was groomed but i was groomed multiple times online, i was also a young and vulnerable kid, they took advantage of my curiosity kindness and the fact i was desperately looking for validation that i didnt get from parents.
I sincerely hope youre doing well and i want to let you know youre not alone in this, and youre not alone in your confusing and complex feelings, I wish you luck in your mental health journey, it can be incredibly hard.
Its not you fault a grown man played with your emotions and made you feel good when you felt awful, its not your faukt that he put you in those awkward positions where you felt you needed to defend him but also felt inside a condemning guilt.
Again, I hope youre doing well!
“he was a really nice, respectful guy, seemed to be a good cop too. I was shocked when I saw the episode.” uh…
My husband and I have a 6 year age difference. However, we were 24 and almost 30 when we married. This was 20 years ago. If we had been 18 and 24, my police officer daddy would have had his hide.
Should I start something with a 30 y/old woman? As a 24 male?
She is somewhat broken, dad issues, I feel she is self-sabotaging her current/last relationship. She does not want kids. But I really thing she does, Deep inside. She wants to take care of me.
@@polespinosa4858 of course! follow your heart and heal hers :)
It's such a burden being a super empath I can't even leave the house anymore I just touched myself all day
A lot of these stories are super “convenient” almost like someone made them up
"I had been on tv you all need to see" pulls a to catch a predator tape
That's a good T.V. SHOW, I didn't know anyone, but I did watch a couple of episodes😮.
Story 25: that man probably wasn't humbled enougu because he was (most likely) kept out of gen pop (general population). Honour among thieves applies in prison, and if they find out you touched children, you're going to be, at best, shunned, or at worst, assaulted and exploited, if not killed. Sexual predators typically get their own unit to avoid those issues as an obligatory duty of care.
NOT THE ENERGY DRINK GUY BEING ON HERE 😭
We had a similar thing happen at my high school as story 22. PE teacher dated an ex student but most people are 16! Here when they graduate high school and we all suspect he started dating her before she graduated (this was all years before I attended tho). He still worked there during my high-school career. Everyone warned each other about him. He finally ended up getting fired during covid because he had contacted a girl (think she was 18) trying to pay her so he could have k!nky intercourse with her 💀. So she contacted the school and posted it online for everyone to see.
He wasn't on To Catch a Predator, but one of my childhood best friends from 1st grade through high school graduation is currently in federal prison for 7 years for being a perverted 36 year old man trying to coax a 14 year old girl to come over to his house and "call him Daddy" because "age gaps are hot." Thankfully the 14 year old he was trying to solicit was actually an undercover agent.
This man was a college level music teacher and the most nerdy, unsuspecting guy on the planet. A quiet Catholic boy who got good grades and never got in any trouble. It seriously blew my mind when it showed up in the newspapers. The whole town's collective mind, really. I NEVER would have suspected it. Never. One of our mutual friends pointed out that in high school, he only dated the tiniest girls in our school that looked a lot younger than they were. I had never noticed that until she mentioned it.
I have sooo many pics of us together and it's just sooooo weird and creepy to see now. 😬
This whole time I'm sitting here screaming about the rdr2 horse. Feed and brush the poor thing 😭
Nickelodeon gave up on that zero tolerance pretty damn quickly eh?
Please feed your horse let him rest 😂
Lol. "Zero tolerance" and "rigorous background checks?" Nickelodeon hired back that exact guy!
I had a music teacher in 6th form (so wasn't underage but still young maybe 17) who kept trying to hug me and once locked me in a really small practice room with him. I heard he was dismissed from his post for being drunk in front of a load of year 7's
Story 6: op dad sounds like a legend and very chivalrous.
5:44 that dad has probably been put through some 💩 as a child, and he's making sure he's protecting his own children.
Ex-victims knows what a predator stare looks like.
I knew two people, one of which was a coworker, from my hometown that were busted by local creep catchers.
The one wasn't overly surprising...he was a huge burnout for as long as I knew him. Kind of peeked in Middle School so I was unsurprised that he was dumb and immature enough to follow through with meeting what he though was a 13 y/o. Still grossed us all out and sadly his mom distroyed a lot of her social circle in his defense...
Second guy was a total shock. He was such a funny and kind guy, seemed well put together. Tried hooking up with a 14 y/o boy. You def get a sense of broken trust when people do shit like this, even as more of an outsider. Can't imagine being the family or survivor of such a person.
A guy I went to high school with became a coach at the school. He had a years long affair with an underage student. He wanted to break it off and turn himself in but when the cops got there he was found dead of a shotgun blast. It was ruled a suicide though the evidence doesnt really add up. Most people think the girl's dad came through and murdered the guy.
FEED THAT DAMN HORSE!
Boy, Nickelodeon sure likes to pretend they care
The fact people believe the show was real. If it were, it would've been 'How to Catch a Politician or Celebrity'
High school friend of mine was not on any shows but was recently arrested for communicating with a minor. As rough as it is I remember in high school he was very open about being into sex and pornography despite being teenagers. He was not really embarrassed about coming off so perverted. In hindsight, I really should have seen that as a sign but I was in denial. I know if he could find a way to have gotten a grip on that stuff his good qualities would shine but allegedly he did what he did (he has not been convicted yet). Please everyone, stay away from porn. Sex is a sacred thing that affects our psychology. Protect our youth. Porn is so dangerous compared to how it is portrayed
Story 1 - as much as it’s wishful thinking of you to assume that it was the newspaper pushing the “they never knew” narrative, it was way more likely to be the fd up Aunt who didn’t take him taking pictures up her child relatives skirts as a sign to break up who helped word that. It makes her more a victim & less of an enabler.
I'm a huge fan of the show and watch it repeatedly so I know EVERY single predator they mention 😂
A principle in my state of wv got in trouble for telling a trans kid to drop theyr pants and show off what they got, he was reinstated. It's sick that it's OK becouse the kid was trans.
Well can’t let creepy boys in the girls room
@@MagnusDudus kid was in the boys restroom when the old fart told em to drop theyr pants, I don't care what political association you are you should have the sense enough to know it's sick for an adult to trap a kid and tell them to drop theyr pants
@@MagnusDudus kid was in the boys restroom when the old fart told em to drop theyr pants.
@@MagnusDudus kid was in the boys room
@@MagnusDudus no matter what your political leaning you should have the sense to know its sick when adults trap a child and tell them to drop theyr pants
Dude at my school there was this gross math teacher that got caught with a female student against her will and tons of girls reported him being a creep to them as well and nothing happened until that one time he got caught. They fired him for two years, the girl graduated, and they hired him back and he ended up molesting one of my friends who is a teeny tiny little thing meanwhile he was big n gross it was just awful.
Weird to think I was almost taken advantage of as a kid but dodged the bullet. When I was a kid I really wanted to learn how to play an instrument and my mom knew a guy at our church that played in the band and he taught kids to play guitar and piano and my mom was trying to set up a time when he could teach me. Luckily we were busy a lot and then a couple months later he got arrested for assaulting multiple kids at the church. I most likely would have been one of the kids. Looking back he definitely gave off weird vibes you don’t pick up on as a kid. He was always excited to talk to me at church
Why do you include ones that aren’t from the show
Just an FYI... ... BUT just before 3:50 you read the same part of the story twice!!
The part about Sebastian getting convicted and getting much needed and being foster kids.... Etc...
Just so you know!
Im sure these stories are 100% no cap frfr
What game is in the background?
Red Dead Redemption 2
@@asimplecheeseburgerwfries469 Thanks!
instead of looking down on your family, the two sisters, who clearly got trauma and issues…
This gon be good
I had a boss that was well respected, Harvard educated and successful. He left at some point and I didn't stay in contact with him. Years later I got a message from a former coworker with a news story attached. Our boss was a pedo and was now in prison.