Student Uses Snapchat Filter to Catfish Pedophile Looking for Teen Girls on Tinder
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A 20-year-old San Francisco Bay Area college student named Ethan used Snapchat’s ‘gender switch’ filter to pose as a woman on Tinder and caught a San Mateo police officer allegedly wanting to hook up.
The student went by the name of a 16-year-old female named “Esther” and said he had a female friend who was molested as a child. Seemingly moved by her story, he wanted to catch possible pedophiles.
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“Esther” got a message from one man saying, “Are you down to have some fun tonight?” Ethan claimed.
Ethan turned in the explicit messages the two had exchanged over a 12-hour period to Crime Stoppers.
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The man, later to be identified by investigators as Robert Davies, was reveled to be a San Mateo police officer who had no issues with Esther’s age. He had also been recently recognized for his leadership with the San Mateo Police Department.
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“This alleged conduct, if true, is in no way a reflection of all that we stand for as a Department, and is an affront to the tenets of our department and our profession as a whole,” San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer said in a statement.
Davis is currently on paid administrative leave.
Ethan said he had only wanted to catch someone.
“He just happened to be a cop,” he said.
Images and feature images courtesy of / NBC Bay Area
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