According to the Maryland Gazette, “at least” 18 men have been arrested through the state’s undercover sex operation this year. The operation follows the typical “To Catch A Predator” model: “The men contacted Montgomery County Police officers posing as a 16-year-old high school sophomore on Craigslist.com, negotiated how much they would pay for specific sexual services and set up meetings in the Gaithersburg area, where they were arrested upon arrival.”

All this sex sting lacked was Chris Hansen hiding in a closet—who apparently has quite a following among underage prostitution enthusiasts!

Several men asked the girl if she was working for police, according to the documents, and a few said that they did not want to end up on Dateline’s “To Catch A Predator” television series.

They didn’t end up on “To Catch a Predator.” But the Gazette has stepped in to assume Hansen’s role of disseminating all the johns’ life-ruining details to the public. No cookies and lemonade, either:

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Sure, it’s not as glitzy as being cornered on the kitchen peninsula behind a big pitcher of lemonade by handsome moral authority and “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen. In December, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and some NoVa detectives tricked some local dudes into trying to have sex with kids with Craigslist posts titled “In Town for 2 Days-Mom W 2 Grls” and “2 nite only- fmly fun – u wn’t forget” The posts then described how interested parties could have sex with 8-to-14-year-old girls. Ha ha, too good to be true, child molesters.

Hey, let’s see which of our neighbors were totally into this:

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