SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chat Room, Sting Operation, Child Abduction
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This was a pbs movie on the duel life jim west, the mayor of spokane washington, lived. The gay people in the town of spokane were marginalized and ostracized from the rest of the community. There was an outlet for these people, however, and that was a gay chat room called gay. com. A member named cobra82 would often frequent the site, but many of those people he spoke to said that he refused to say what he did for a living. Cobra82 was reported to be very private and shared little information about his own life, outside the chat room. The investigators working this case, after being approached by a few online users, started to believe that this alias was indeed the town"s mayor. About 20 years before, a wave of sexual abuse had run through the town. It had affected the boy scouts, the church, and the sheriff"s county.
