Viral Video Shows Unbelievable Encounter with Alleged Child Predator: You Buying It?

In the mid-aughts, few shows captured the zeitgeist quite like Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator,” starring host Chris Hansen. The reality television series saw Hansen and his team pose as underage children in online forums to entice potential statutory rapists to come visit the “child” at home. Most episodes followed a similar structure, in which the adult would meet an actor posing as a young child, before Hansen and his camera crew would swoop in for the ultimate “gotcha” moment. The show only lasted from 2004 to 2007, due in no small part to its exploding popularity (thus making it much …

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