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Investigators for Florida’s Attorney General spent 5 hours on line this morning and chatted with at least 20 people who crossed the line and could soon be arrested. But as Mike Vasilinda tells us, budget cuts may keep some perpetrators on the street and behind their keyboards.

Hear it here: Cyber Crime Fight in Jeopardy

Captain Cla Parker is a retired police officer. But online, he is a 14 year old Florida Girl.
And for an hour and a half, he chatted with a much older man.

“He takes me through a masturbation section, where he has me masturbate myself for his pleasure, and says we can do this on a regular basis if I’ll be his friend,” Parker said.

At lunch 338 other people were logged on to the same chat room. A click and a few key pecks away was another suitor, this time a woman.

“‘Burnout’ is the screenname.” Parker said. “She actually wanted me to get a candle and light it and touch it to various parts of my body.”

Every new chatter was told they were speaking to a 14 year old girl. Some danced around the obvious. Others jumped in with both feet, and what they wrote was too racy to show you here. Supervisor Maureen Horkan says it is almost too easy.

“It’s like shooting fish in a barrel,” Horkan said. “Like I said today, we could have issued twenty search warrants, just today.”

One reason for the demonstration, the program is facing budget cuts.

New offices in Tampa and Pensacola may not open and, offices in Ft. Myers and Tallahassee have already been scuttled.

Horkan says the cuts put kids at risk.

“Every single time one of these guys is put in jail, scores of children are saved from their abuse,” Horkan said. “It wasn’t a one-time thing.”

While legislators say the program is worthy, they also say they can’t spend money they don’t have.