https://www.perverted-justice.com/
I had some free time today so I read through some of the "cases" and their follow ups on the forums. I have come to the conclusion that the people pursuing these apparent pedophiles may have far greater mental disorders than those they hound. When they're not patting themselves on the back in the forums they're out plastering flyers for "pedophiles" around town in which my only guess is an attempt to add importance to their otherwise dull and vapid lives. All this is done under the guise of protecting children, which in its true form is a noble cause, but I don't believe they protect children at all. If anything they bust the hopelessly stupid pedophiles that would have either gotten caught with out them or never molested a child anyways.
The methods in which these busts are obtained are highly questionable. How many young girls (or boys for that matter) go on the internet and actively accept invitations from much older men for sex after only talking for a few minutes? I think America's youth deserves a little more credit than that. It's not like there's an epidemic of young children actively trying to have sex with old men on the internet, in fact I think you'd find that most children find pedophilia disgusting. Not to mention the many cases of baiting I’ve seen in the few chat logs I’ve read.
This post is in no way a defense for the men who have illicit conversations with who they may or may not believe is a child, it is more of a slam against the Perverted Justice staff and forum members who are delusional enough to believe that they are protecting children. They do all this despite the fact that they have not a single case proving that they have saved even one child from molestation. In fact, I don’t think most of them even do it for the reason they state, it seems more like they get some sort of sick satisfaction from bringing a “pedophile” down, even though outside of a single chat log they have no proof that this individual is indeed a pedophile.
These pseudo detectives have the ability to do a great deal of damage to someone’s life and it’s only a matter of time before they screw up and fuck over an innocent man. I’ve seen many cases on their forums where they initially peg the wrong person, luckily they didn’t jump the gun and start contacting their neighbors informing them of a pedophile in the neighborhood but mark my words, sooner or later it will happen.
Until I see concrete evidence that children are safer and it’s because of Perverted Justice my stance will remain the same. These people aren’t noble vigilantes, they’re bored housewives and wormy geeks who share a penchant for something they’ve probably never had in real life: power.