A Kitsap County Sheriff's Office detective in training spent part of Wednesday afternoon posing online as a 13-year-old girl.
It is a public, well-trafficked spot, the kind a predator might treat as low-risk precisely because it is so ordinary.
It is also notable that KCSO chose to make the content of the exchange public at all.
It criminalizes causing, aiding, or inviting a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of photographing or recording it.
What Kitsap Parents Should Take From This, Beyond the Headline The most concrete local takeaway is not the arrest itself but what KCSO is signaling about intent going forward.
A Kitsap County Sheriff's Office detective in training posed online as a 13-year-old girl. A 29-year-old Seattle man arranged to meet her, and deputies arrested him instead. The case is the first public result of a new KCSO push to train detectives to hunt online predators proactively.