BERKELEY, CA – This past June, Berkeley Police reportedly let a biological male suspected of trying to arrange an illicit encounter with multiple underage girls walk free – despite the fact that police were provided with significant evidence showing the suspect trying to coordinate the meeting so as to sexually abuse the minors.
On August 20th, the anti-pedophile group Predator Poachers shared a video of the June sting where they’d used an online decoy of a nine-year-old girl to see if they’d get contacted by adults for nefarious purposes.
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During the sting operation, Predator Poachers’ online decoy wound up being contacted by a biological male, who claims to be a woman, identified as Sophia Westfall.
The investigation carried out by Predator Poachers was reportedly months in length, where Westfall had exchanged some unsettling messages with the decoy posing as the nine-year-old girl, with the messages being rather explicit in regards to what Westfall had wanted to engage in with the child.
Alex Rosen, who is part of the operation behind Predator Poacher, spoke with news outlet Reduxx about the investigation into Westfall.
“Sophia was one of the reasons we were in California but we actually had multiple suspects in the state,” Rosen stated, noting that Westfall had interacted with two decoys they’d been utilizing between Instagram and Telegram that were using AI-generated photos to maintain the facade with would-be predators who try to entice children on said platforms.
Screenshots of some of the exchanged messages showed Westfall telling the nine-year-old decoy, “Well, you know I love young girls…I’m just excited thinking about how fun it could be to play in bed with both of you.”
The reference to “both of you” in the message from Westfall was in reference to the nine-year-old decoy telling Westfall that she had a younger sibling. From there, the decoy sent a message reading, “I have another sister but she’s probably too young…She’s only 1 lol.”
Alarmingly, Westfall responded to the aforementioned with, “That doesn’t bother me. Never too young to start learning.”
The content of the messages continued to get progressively worse from there, with Westfall explicitly telling the nine-year-old decoy what else he’d like to do with her, which included, “Kisses and touching all over. Kissing between your legs, especially!”
When the decoy questioned whether the aforementioned act would be “icky,” Westfall responded with, “Nope. As long as you wash first, it’s not only *not* icky…it’s an amazingly good feeling!”
Westfall also volunteered details in messages to the decoy about how he’d molest the one-year-old girl referenced in previous messages, saying, “There’s at least some fun ways to touch her even if she can’t help out a lot.” He later texted the decoy, “I’m eager to spend some lovely time with all of you.”
The grooming nature of Westfall’s text messages were in full swing when he told the decoy, “I hope you’re ready to try plenty of new things! As long as you do exactly what I tell you, this should be a wonderful time for everyone.”
Westfall clearly knew that the conversations he was having with whom he believed to be a nine-year-old girl were completely inappropriate, telling the decoy in later messages, “I’m really serious – this could get all of us in really big trouble if things go wrong! But I’m sure you can be good for me.”
When Rosen went to confront Westfall in person after a meeting with the decoy was arranged, Westfall immediately became defensive and was attempting to avoid discussing the messages exchanged with the decoy.
Berkeley Police were eventually contacted and responded to the scene, with Westfall trying to claim he was being harassed by Rosen and his team. Officers at the scene were handed over the evidence – including images of child pornography that Westfall had allegedly sent the decoy – but had simply let the suspect walk free with no further action.
On August 24th, Berkeley Police issued a statement on the matter via Twitter, claiming to have “received a number of questions about the incident” since the video went live online.
The excuse given regarding the officers’ inaction during the confrontation was, “When private persons attempt to conduct their own stings/investigations (which may or may not adhere to modern investigative standards), it presents a unique challenge for law enforcement.”
Berkeley Police additionally mentioned, “After being notified about the incident, which occurred in June, officers responded to the location, spoke to the reporting party, the person alleged to have committed the crime, and investigated the incident,” claiming that they’d tried following up with Rosen about the case and he hasn’t provided “information we have requested to continue to the investigation.”
This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on August 24, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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