Sounds like something a former college football oaf might do. You might wonder what's wrong with luring in a suspected pedo and proceeding to berate them on camera for views. I can't speak for non-US countries, but there's a little thing called entrapment. Law enforcement and civilians (to different degrees based on the state) cannot simply entice people to commit a crime for the purposes of reporting them. Every state is a little different with regards for what classifies as "child endangerment", "solicitation", etc. If you're luring in predators with a plant, there are ways these things must be handled to secure a prosecution. If these stings are not handled appropriately and professionally, you will cause a man to go free to commit crimes another day. These grifters don't understand that and they don't care. It's not about catching predators. It's about scaring them for a video and getting views. Here (archive) is an article about Predator Poachers fucking up a case exactly like this."I literally just yell in someone’s face and make them feel shitty.”
Schaub said a child enticement charge requires the victim be 16 or younger when an electronic device is used. An exception is allowed when a law enforcement officer portrays an underage participant. But there is no exception in state statute for when someone else portrays an underage participant.
Schaub said entrapment can be used as a defense in court, “which means that the state would have to prove that there was no entrapment, if there were even slight evidence that happened.”
While he did not comment on whether the actions on the videos could be deemed entrapment, Schaub said the confrontation between the Predator Poachers leader and the 45-year-old man “was not at all done professionally as I would expect a law enforcement officer would do.”
Police became involved after the confrontation, he said, and “there is not a lot that police can do to sanitize a bad, bad investigation from a legal perspective.”
In some instances, TV shows and media outlets have gotten involved in targeting criminal suspects. But Schaub said that in those instances, producers and others work with law enforcement to conduct their investigations rather than conducting their own.
This is rule #1 of the Pedophile Poacher community. Get views, get paid. Pedos are incidental in this gig, and outside of the praise they receive for "catching" them, they really don't care. Here is a fellow pedo hunter and minor lolcow, Eric Kanevsky, air his dirty laundry with Alex Rosen.“The big part of making these videos is making them entertaining,” Rosen, a recent college dropout and part-time delivery driver, told me. “Like, ‘What’s Alex gonna say next?’ It sucks that they have to be entertainment—but we have to get views.”