After more than 80 child predator arrests in North Georgia in the last two years, an Atlanta attorney is questioning law enforcement’s tactics, calling the incidents the product of “rogue” law enforcement and the need to “create” crime instead of fight it.
Almost all arrests have come as the result of people who legally troll the popular website Craigslist in search of “casual encounters” with adults, attorney McNeill Stokes says. The people are then slapped with bait-and-switch tactics that cause otherwise law-abiding citizens to be accused of sex crimes against minors, he said.
PDF: William Glenn Logans motion for a new trial
Mr. Stokes likened the prosecutions to that of local ex-school teacher Tonya Craft, who was acquitted Tuesday of 22 charges involving child molestation in the same jurisdiction. He said the prosecutions are a zealous attempt to put away alleged sex offenders without regard for the law or the facts of the cases.
“These investigations are like a cancer running through North Georgia and are ruining people’s lives,” Mr. Stokes said Wednesday after he failed to convince Catoosa County Superior Court Judge Brian House, the same judge in the Tonya Craft case, to grant his client a new trial.