Athens Group Sets up Sting to ID Man Soliciting Teens for Sex

Athens group sets up sting to ID man soliciting teens for sex

An Athens group exposed a carnival worker soliciting a child online, but police released him due to a policy against vigilante stings.

Athens-based group exposes child predators

By Joe JohnsonA worker with a carnival that comes to town every year was recently exposed as an apparent child predator by an Athens area vigilante group.The 40-year-old suspect was working for the Spring Fling Fair carnival at Georgia Square Mall earlier this month when he engaged in sexually explicit online activity with someone who he thought was a 14-year-old boy.The boy was actually a member of the Street Sweeperz Unit who confronted the su…