A Montana Mormon leader has been caught in an internet sex sting:
A leader in the Mormon Church was arrested in an Internet sex sting after allegedly arranging to meet a 14-year-old girl in Idaho…. Hildreth, 51, of Dillon, was charged in federal court with one felony count of using the Internet to knowingly attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity… Over the past two months, police said, Hildreth corresponded with Boise detectives posing as a 14-year-old girl in an online chat room and sent explicit images of himself.
OK, two comments:
(1) The “explicit pictures” are dicey, but I think extra young wives are OK on the Mormon view? If there wasn’t the porn thing, how bad would Mormons think this was?
(2) I love to see the “pious” fall, and a sex sting embarrassment is always fun. But to be fair, this is legal bullshit. NO MINOR WAS INVOLVED. Mormon Guy pretended to be a 14-year-old girl, did net sex stuff with some detective who was also pretending to be a 14-year-old girl. No minor was enticed, exposed to porn, or anything else. This isn’t illegal; it’s the bread-and-butter of AOL chatrooms. It’s not illegal to pretend. It’s not illegal to be fooled by the pretending. It’s not illegal to jerk off while thinking about 14-year-old girls. It’s not illegal to show pictures of you jerking off to other consenting adults who are pretending to be 14-year-old girls. Where’s the illegal part?
So let the schmuck go. I’ll enjoy his humiliation along with the rest of you; but the criminal stuff is complete bullshit.
Mormon Church Leader Arrested in Sex Case