Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 25, 2012

Krystal Rice was a married 22-year-old when she joined New York?s Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office. She was approached by a senior detective named Steven Cote, who enlisted her in what he described as a sting operation targeting online pedophiles.

Cote told Rice that he was maintaining an online profile in the name of a 15-year-old girl, and needed to take Rice?s photo to send to suspected predators who requested a picture.  Cote took Rice to a remote location and took several sexually suggestive photographs ? which, predictably, wound up being circulated in the office.

Rice?s husband didn?t approve, understandably, and this probably contributed to the break-up of their marriage. Once Rice was single, she began to receive vulgar text messages from Detective Cote, whose own marriage was disintegrating. When Rice filed a complaint, she was ostracized by other officers as a troublemaker. She has filed a lawsuit against Cote and several other officials in the sheriff?s office.

Lost in this controversy is this question: When a male detective posing as an underage girl creates a pornographic image of an adult woman, how is the consumer of that image ? however depraved he might be -- the real criminal in the transaction?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.