5 charged in "Catch a Predator" hoax that lured innocent man to filmed assault

Five students at Assumption University, a private Christian college in Massachussets, were charged with luring and assaulting a 22-year-old man to campus and filming it all under the false pretext that he was a pedophile. The man understood himself to be meeting an 18-year-old woman, but was met by a mob of students armed with cameras and fists. — Read the rest
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