The lawsuit against NBC brought by the family of the man who
shot himself when the crew of the show “To Catch a Predator” appeared at his
home to arrest him has been settled, reported Reuters.
In November 2006, Louis William Conradt, an assistant district
attorney from Texas,
was taken by surprise when the crew from NBC’s Dateline “To Catch a Predator” accompanied
by the police showed up at his house to arrest him. Allegedly, the man was attempting
to solicit a minor over the Internet.
After the event, Conradt’s sister Patricia Conradt took the matter into
her own hands and filed a $105 million lawsuit against the NBC television
network. She filed the suit in 2007, saying that the network was “concerned
more with its own profits than with pedophilia,” The Los Angeles Times reported.
“To Catch a Predator” is a show in which someone poses as a
minor on the Internet in order to attract men who want to meet them. When they
show up at the date, instead of finding the minor, the men are confronted by the show’s
host and the camera crew. In the case of Conradt, the crew and the police had
to come to his house because he didn’t show up at the meeting place. When the SWAT
team tried to arrest him he panicked and shot himself with a handgun.
Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan said the lawsuit
has been settled. NBC spokeswoman Jenny Tartikoff confirmed, saying that the
situation was “amicably resolved” and both parties were satisfied.
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