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Not a Great Recruiting Tactic

According to the Arapahoe County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office, Paul Sikkema, 29, exchanged explicit online messages with a sheriff’s deputy posing as a 14-year-old girl named Jenny. Sikkema was arrested and held on $7,500 bond on suspicion of Internet luring of a child. Sikkema is a graduate of and instructor for the U.S. Air Force Academy. He works in the philosophy department — teaching ethics. (MS/Denver Post) ...“You don’t teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.” —“Judge Judy” Sheindlin
Original Publication Date: 12 May 2019
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.

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