Under Georgia law, you can be charged with child molestation without touching a minor, but intending to commit the act. Most of those arrested were charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, and many were charged with child molestation.
Some of the suspects have children of their own and some worked in places where they would frequently have contact with children, like malls, Smith said. None of the 23 suspects has previous charges or reports of sexual offenses, but police are continuing to look into their backgrounds to determine if they have previously abused children, Smith said. Gwinnett police did not disclose the specific locations of either place. Some of the chatters engaged with the suspects over a few days, and others spent weeks talking to the men, Smith said.Īll of the suspects were arrested at a home or a “second location,” both in Gwinnett, where they believed they would be meeting a child for sex. One man arrested, Edward Harold Ramsey, 24, of Wichita, Kan., is a member of the Air Force. The men’s professions include electrician, construction worker, retail employee, mechanic, hotel employee and janitor. “Online child predators visit chat rooms and websites on the Internet, find children, begin conversations with them, introduce sexual content and arrange a meeting with the children for the purpose of having sex,” Miles said.
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