Remember, he’s 58 years old, and the decoy says she’s a 13-year-old female.
Old_Rooster: We can do anything u want...i don’t know how shy you are honey
the decoy asks,
skye_blueyez: lol u wanna make love 2 me?
Old_Rooster: yes. i’m really attracted to you.
skye_blueyez: k u gonna bring condems then?
Old_Rooster: i am sensitive myself
skye_blueyez: wherd u go?
Old_Rooster: yes i will sweetheart,
The decoy tells him she’s a virgin, and that she has a hot tub at her house. Then Rooster wants to know if she’s willing to lose her virginity in that hot tub.
Old_Rooster: when we get in the hot tub and we are both turned on are you willing to makeout tonight, i would love to be your first. it’s up to you
The decoy asks Rooster if he’s going to bring condoms. He says yes, and he has a special surprise for her.
Old_Rooster: i have chocalate flavored condoms.
skye_blueyez: chocolate flavor?
Old_Rooster: yes, it taste(s) like chocalate do you know what i mean
And sure enough, he arrives – a man who says he’s bringing chocolates, expecting to spend the night with a 13-year-old girl.
(hidden camera) Decoy: I have some drinks here, but you kinda have one already, but it’s Kool-Aid not that it’s like crazy.
Corye Rooster: I need to use the bathroom though.
Decoy: Oh the bathroom.
Chris Hansen, Dateline correspondent (walks out): What’s on the agenda for tonight?
Rooster: What’s that?
Hansen: How you doing?
Hansen: Why don’t you have a seat on that stool over there for me.
Rooster: Alright.
Hansen: Thanks. What’s happening?
Rooster: Oh not a whole lot.
Hansen: Go ahead, please sit down. Find the place okay?
Rooster: Yeah.
Hansen: Yeah? How long did it take you to drive?
Rooster: About an hour and 45 minutes.
Hansen: An hour and 45 minutes. And why would you drive so far, on a Saturday night?
Rooster: Pick up and see my friend.
Hansen: To see your friend? Who is this friend?
Rooster: Skye.
Hansen: Skye?
Rooster: Uh-Hmm (affirms).
Hansen: And how old is Skye?
Rooster: I think that she’s 13, I believe.
Hansen: 13. And how old are you?
Rooster: 20-- 22.
Hansen: 22?
Rooster: Yes.
Hansen: You’re 22 and you’re here to see a 13 year old girl who’s home alone?
Rooster: Yes.
Hansen: You see any issues with that?
Rooster: I was just gonna hang out with her?
Hansen: Just gonna hang out?
Rooster: Well, I know she said she had a hot tub and
Hansen: hot tub?
Rooster: We were just gonna have fun, she seemed nice so—
Hansen: She seemed nice?
Rooster: Yeah.
Hansen: She seemed 13, she seemed under age.
Rooster: There’s nothing wrong with hanging out with girls that are 13.
But remember, Rooster wasn’t talking on line about hanging out. He was talking about the 13-year-old losing her virginity in the hot tub.
Hansen (reading chat transcript): “Can you tell them you’re studying at a friend’s house?” That’s the excuse you suggest for her to tell her parents?
Rooster: That’s right, yeah.
Hansen: --But if this is all on the up and up, then why do you have to give her an excuse to give to her parents?
Rooster: Because she would obviously be too young—
Hansen: There you go-- --see there’s—there’s the answer. She would obviously be too young to go out with somebody who’s 22 years old. She says, “You gonna bring condoms then?” I have chocolate flavored condoms. I only have two left. I will use them for you.”
Rooster: Yes, trying to make her excited so that she would allow me to come up here and hang out with her.
Hansen: And have sex with her?
Rooster: Well not necessarily but—
Hansen: Well, why would you bring chocolate flavored condoms if you didn’t wanna have sex with her?
Rooster: Well that’s what I normally just have anyway (chuckles), I always have condoms with me.
While he doesn’t say he’s done this before with an underage teen— he does say he’s had dozens of liasons with people he’s met online.
Hansen: And have you ever been surprised?
Rooster: Oh yes (chuckles). One time—there was a transvestite.
Hansen: So you had this sexy chat online with somebody, you showed up at their house and there was a transvestite?
Rooster: I mean she—at first look everybody would think she was a woman.
Hansen: Right. How did you find out that she was actually a he?
Rooster: Well, when I started talking with her, her voice was a little deeper.
Hansen: Yeah, had a little Adam’s apple thing going on? How’d that work out for ya?
Rooster: I was pretty much—I said, “Thanks for the offer, but I’m—I’m leavin’” so—
Hansen: And you scooted on outta there?
Rooster: Oh yeah.
Hansen: Well here’s something that I think you’ll also find is a surprise. I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. And this is one of our “To Catch a Predator” story. You may have seen them before. Have you seen the show before?
Rooster: I have.
Hansen: You have? How many times?
Rooster: A couple dozen?
Hansen: A couple dozen? And what do you think of the stories, what do you think of the shows?
Rooster: They’re pretty incredible.
Hansen: Pretty incredible. Did you ever think you’d be on one?
Rooster: No.
Outside, the Long Beach police are getting into position. And perhaps because Rooster has seen our investigations before, he’s no hurry to leave. He probably knows what’s waiting for him outside.
Officers take him to their nearby processing center where he, along with other men who came to our undercover house, are photographed and interviewed.
By the way, despite Rooster’s comment about bringing condoms, the police don’t find any when they search him and his car. Later, he pleaded no contest to one count of an attempted lewd act upon a child.
Sgt. Lee DeBrabander is in charge of this operation for the Long Beach police. He says his department would not be able to run an investigation this large on its own.
Sgt. Lee Debrabander, Long Beach police: To run an operation on like this—at the front end, there’s a lot of man hours going into the Internet chats. It would cost an astronomical amount of money to pay police officers to sit in front of computers to conduct these chats.
Hansen: Essentially, Perverted Justice had the expertise and time your department didn’t.
Sgt. DeBrabander: That is correct.
