Warning: The following post contains discussions of suicide.
From 2004 to 2007, To Catch a Predator aired on NBC as part of a Dateline program. The series featured hidden cameras capturing adult men arriving at sting houses to have sex with underage minors. The minors were actually adults impersonating teenagers in online chats.
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