For an interesting example of an investigation using a pretend child victim communicating by computer and phone with a potential child abuser, check out this case. It provides a very detailed description of the evidence and how it was collected.

Another GREAT job done by the Texas Atty. General's Cyber Crime Division Investigators.

I LOVE telling people that my husband and his friends make a living pretending to be 13 year old girls

you can make a living doing that?

Sure, ask PeeWee Herman, sort of.

You can make a living in Austin doing just about anything...even w/o a banjo or rap lyrics.

speaking as one of those pretend teenagers, I take offense to the Pee Wee Herman remark....

Well, my brother in the fight, now you know how it feels to be a banjo player in the finest prosecution association in Texas.
Exit only.

I have been there before...trying to get there again...