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Lawsuit Takes Down Appalling Predator Show

Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:23 AM

NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by Patricia Conradt, who claimed the sex-sting show, Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator, drove her brother to kill himself. Her lawsuit claimed her brother, a Dallas prosecutor, shot himself after he was accused of engaging in a sexually explicit online chat with an adult from the Perverted Justice group posing as a 13-year-old boy. She said the network "steamrolled" police to arrest Louis William Conradt Jr (right) after telling them he failed to show up at a sting operation 35 miles away. Failed to show up. If we remember the story correctly, Conradt shot himself on camera as police barged in, and in the show's single moment of decency, the footage was not televised. (AP)

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the lawsuit contained sufficient facts to make it plausible that the suicide was foreseeable, that police had a duty to protect Conradt from killing himself and that the officers and NBC acted with deliberate indifference. New episodes of To Catch A Predator ended in December, with the future of the series uncertain.

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Lawsuit Takes Down Appalling Predator Show

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