Dairy State Degenerates

     398 arrests in 39 stings across more than a dozen states. That's the record for predator stings across the country in 2022, stings that catch men and women soliciting children online for sex. Even by itself, that would be pretty impressive, but that's not where the story ends. These numbers do not include volunteer operations that lead to arrests, stings targeting individuals rather than multiple people, or arrests made for solicitation of real children online. Even if it doesn't quite make national news like it did during the era of "To Catch a Predator," thousands of people are being arrested every year for soliciting kids for sex online, a sting nearly every week resulting in the arrest of people every day. Each of these arrests represents children saved and awareness created: February 1st, 2022: Walton County, Florida ( 12 arrests ) February 1st, 2022: Montgomery County, Texas ( 10 arrests ) February 10th, 2022: Wood County, West Virginia ( 4 arrests ) Fe

     The story of Cody Kozicki is a long, twisted one. I've already highlighted how he had a long history of sending unsolicited explicit messages and images to high school and middle school girls but was allowed to remain in the school and stayed living at his mother's home due to an alleged "learning disability" that has nothing to do with being a sexual predator. I've already highlighted his continued use of TikTok and other social media platforms to lure more victims, his arrest after sending images to elementary school girls, his four counts of bond jumping for the aforementioned use of social media, his attorney deciding to withdraw from the case, his guilty plea to two felony charges, and his meager sentence of time served with probation .      On his 20th birthday, I highlighted his arrest for what at the time was listed as merely a probation violation, a serious felony charge but one that is often resolved relatively quickly and gently. It took m