NEW VICE SQUADS TROLL THE WEB FOR CHILD PORN

Within minutes of a 14 year old named Scottie getting on a Web site where gay teens exchange electronic messages, a middle-aged man from Indiana engages him in a private conversation.  The man suggests they act out a fantasy where he kidnaps the boy and then the conversation turns to hard-core pornography.  Scottie is not Scottie and he is not a 14-year-old boy.  He is a member of the US Customs CyberSmuggling Center who is prowling the Internet for rings that are trading child-porn images or sexual predators who are trying to set up meetings with underage kids.