This time, the kids were actually adult decoys and police. The next time, and the time before, it may have been a different story.
When asked by 24 Hour News 8, one of the men arrested in last weekend's Internet predator sting said this was his first attempted encounter with a minor.
"You're telling me that this is the first time that you got into a sexual conversation with an underage person on the Internet?" 24 Hour News 8 asked one of the suspects.
"That I remember," answered 35-year-old Tyson Jenkins, a disabled Gulf War vet from Indiana.
Perhaps more frightening is the jobs some of these men have that put them in direct contact with children.
Eric Wesche was a junior varsity soccer coach in Cedar Springs. Mike Greenberg was a youth hockey league referee in Hazel Park. Michael Shaler worked at a Toys R Us store in Saginaw.
Nothing 24 Hour News 8 discovered in these men's history indicated a previous problem that a background check would have found.
