Television channel NBC was brought on trial after a man killed himself. The $100 million lawsuit started by the man’s family ended with an agreement on both parts, as the Associated Press reported.
Louis William Conradt Jr, a suburban Dallas prosecutor, killed himself after he was caught red-handed by the police and the press while he was thinking about having computer sex with a 13-year-old boy. The NBC came to the location with the intention to record his arrest and to transmit it live on their TV Show, “To Catch a Predator.”
The goal of “To Catch a Predator” is to hire someone who is supposed to be under-aged and put him/her in an Internet chat room, where he/she lures a man who wants to meet them to a house. Instead of meeting the child, they are supposed to be finding the police and the television. Conradt failed to show up at that house, so the police and television came to his house, while he was using the chat room.
Conradt took a gun and blew out his brains at his home in November 2006, when a SWAT team knocked down his door, with the TV crew behind them.
This suicide put a lot of moral questions, but eventually everything came out with an agreement. It’s a fact that Conradt had a lot of mental problems, starting from those chat rooms and ending with his suicide. It can’t be said to have been anyone’s fault, but his.
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