LLC, I think that it has one very, very good point - it puts the face on such a person, it gives them an identity. How many children out there think of such people as "The Boogeyman"? How many wouldn't believe that it could be their teacher, their neighbor, their friend's father? Too many people believe that such a sexual predator must be some filthy, depraved monster on the OUTSIDE as well as on the inside. To see that it could literally be ANYONE is a good thing.

Secondly, as I stated before, it brings such a crime into the light. It allows victims to say, Wow! I'm not the only one! And if it brings them some measure of comfort or courage to come forward, them I'm all for it.

As for invading this pedophile's privacy and ruining their lives, I don't believe that they have such a right. When they contacted an underage person on the internet for sex, then they lost those rights. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.