Expensive home rich with potential predators

John Donnelly, 21, is here after chatting online with a girl who told him she was 14. Just a few minutes into the chat “ikeman_04” tells her he's really horny and he continues.

(Chat transcript)
ikeman_04: we could have lots of fdun if i could come to your house to see u
Decoy: doing wat
ikeman_04: kissing sucking each other, touvhing each other
ikeman_04: having sex if u wanted
Decoy: i never went all the way yet
ikeman_04: i would be sweet to u
ikeman_04: u r the perfect girl

Perfect, except that she's making it clear she's a minor. So he should know he has no business being here, but that doesn't stop him.

Donnelly: I've never met anybody younger than like 18. So, that shit just worried me and shit.  That's all.

Decoy: I understand that's okay.

Donnelly: I just didn't know. I had just been worried, that's all, that some, this was some crazy scheme.

Decoy: What do you mean?

Donnelly: But like there's a show, The Daily Show, like they make fun of the news but it really is the news.  And I was reading about him that, like, they pay, they pay for like cops to like pretend they're like girls and shit like that.  And--

Decoy: Are you serious?

Donnelly: Yeah. Yeah, so I mean, I usually don't worry about (laughter) but it was just like so awkward. But I guess everything's cool. I don't know so. 

But as he's about to find out everything isn't cool.

Chris Hansen: How's it going?

Donnelly: Pretty good. How you doing?

Hansen: Good. How are you?

Donnelly: I'm alright.

Hansen: What's happening?  What are you up to?

Donnelly: I was just coming to meet this person.

Hansen: Really? And who's that person?

Donnelly: S---, man. I wasn't gonna-

Hansen: Who'd you come to meet?

Donnelly: I wasn't gonna do anything guys, I promise, please. F---! I just came to visit this girl.  F---, dude. I knew this was a setup. I didn't even wanna do anything with this girl.

Hansen: Well, I, that's not what it said

Donnelly: I know, I know, because I was trying to impress the girl, so…

Hansen: You were trying a 14-year-old girl?

Donnelly: I don't know what I was thinking, sir.

Hansen: I'll tell you what you were thinking. You were thinking of having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

Donnelly: I swear to God, I wasn't. Please, officer. Please. 

He seems to think I’m with law enforcement, he'll learn soon enough that I’m not a cop.

Hansen: You even ask in your (unintelligible), you say, "You're not a cop or something, are you?"

Donnelly: Because I was so worried about all this. Dammit, I don't…

Hansen: Well, why were, if you're so worried, why'd you do it?

Donnelly: Because I, I've been, I've just been really depressed lately.  I don't know what I was thinking, sir. I know I said all that stupid s--- about having sex and stuff like that. I've only had sex with one girl in my life. I do not; I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that.  Every day I can't sleep because I've been thinking, this is stupid, John. Do you know how much trouble is, why would you sleep with a 14-year-old girl?  And that's why I never wanted to. It's disgusting.

Hansen: I know.  But that doesn't square with what you said and what you did.

Donnelly: I do not wanna be ruined for my, I wanted to go to college and everything. 

Donnelly: I wanna go for sports broadcasting, or journalism. I mean, this is not…

Hansen: So, you wanna be a television reporter.

Donnelly: Yes.

Hansen: Have you ever been on TV before?

Donnelly: No.

Hansen: Well, this is one of those good news/bad news situations, John. I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. And we're doing one of our "To Catch a Predator…”

Donnelly: Please tell me you're not…

Hansen:  …investiga…

Donnelly: …please.

Donnelly: I would never do anything like this.

Hansen: Well, who do you blame then?

Donnelly: Myself for being so stupid.

I make several attempts to get the man to leave…

Hansen: So, like I said, you're welcome to leave.

…but he won’t budge.

Donnelly: No point, there's no point of going anywhere. I just, this was the stupidest mistake I've ever made in my life.

Finally after much prompting he gets up and starts to leave the beach, only to be stopped in his tracks by police from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, and he seems to know what to do.

As our investigation continues, men arrive loaded with gifts.

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