Local news reports: A 41-year-old Franklin, Wisconsin man is accused sending sexual and disturbing messages to what he thought was a teenage girl. It turned out to be a group of bikers.
The accused is Joshua Farrell – and he faces a charge of “use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime.”
“Bikers Against Predators.” The organization had rented the residence “to catch people who came to the address to have sexual intercourse/contact with a person posing as a 13-year-old girl,” the complaint says.
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Members of the group told police they chatted with Farrell, “who identified himself by name but said he was 31 years old,” the complaint says. They shared the chat with the investigating officer. The chats when switched to text messages – and those texts were also shared with the officer.