A California college student used a Snapchat filter to pose as an underage girl online in an effort to catch sexual predators.
The alleged predator he caught was a San Mateo police officer.
Ethan, a 20-year-old San Francisco Bay Area college student, used Snapchat's gender-switch filter to become Esther and posed on Tinder as a 19-year-old because Tinder does not allow juveniles to open accounts, according to"I believe he messaged me, 'Are you down to have some fun tonight,'" said Ethan, who did not give his last name for fear of retaliation.
San Mateo Police Officer Robert Davies, 40, began talking with who he thought was Esther on Tinder on May 11, before the two switched to Kik messaging app, where Ethan said Esther was 16, which"Davies acknowledged," according to a release from the San Jose Police Department."Davies then asked her to switch to Snapchat where they also discussed her being 16 years-old, and chatted about engaging in sexual activity," the release said.
He was arrested on June 6 on suspicion of contacting a minor to commit a felony and booked at the Santa Clara County Jail. Ethan told police that he had a female friend who had been molested as a child, which led him to want to try to catch predators."I was just looking to get someone," he said."He just happened to be a cop."Elisha Fieldstadt
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