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State Senator Lisa Wellman (D-Mercer Island) drafted legislation to lower penalties on would-be child sex seekers who are caught in online stings referred to as “net nanny” operations. She even defended someone who was charged after arranging a meeting with someone he thought was a mom offering her young children to him for sex. Now, hoping to avoid further criticism, Wellman is abandoning the legislation. She is undeserving of a pass, especially since she continues her efforts in a stunningly disingenuous way.

, with Democratic Senators Noel Frame, T’wina Nobles, and Claire Wilson joining Wellman as co-sponsors, reduced penalties for perverts caught in “Net Nanny” sting operations, where law enforcement officers pose as minors online to apprehend would-be predators. The bill shortened the sex offender registration period to five years and limits community supervision to three years for offenders without prior convictions or predatory behavior.

The bill defines a “Net Nanny” operation as an internet sting designed to catch adults attempting to solicit or engage in sexual activity with minors.

After receiving pushback that Wellman should have very obviously foreseen, she dropped it. But she’s now trying to implement the same level of protections in a roundabout way 鈥� introducing Senate Bill 5282, also sponsored by Wellman, with Frame, Nobles, and Wilson among the co-sponsors.

A backchannel to protecting child sex predators?

On the surface, seems innocuous at worst, protective at best. It has already passed in the Senate and is now being debated in the House.

The bill would reestablish the advisory board for the Missing and Exploited Children Task Force (MECTF) in Washington. But it had two curious supporters: Sen. Lisa Wellman and Bruce Glant.

Glant’s son is Bryan Earle Glant. He was convicted on two counts of attempted first degree rape of a child arising from a net nanny sting in 2016. He was 20 years old at the time.

According to , Glant responded to an advertisement on Craigslist titled, “Family Play Time!?!?-w4m.” The post said, “Mommy/daughter, Daddy/daughter, Daddy/son, Mommy/son. . . . you get the drift. If you know what I鈥檓 talking about, hit me up we鈥檒l chat more about what I have to offer you.”

Glant thought he was talking to the mother of a 13-year-old boy and six- and 11-year-old daughters, according to court records. He told the mother that he was “primarily interested in the daughters” and that he wanted to provide and receive oral sex to and with them. Transcripts provided by the court note that Glant asked if he could engage in digital penetrative sex, and the “mom” replied by saying he could if he brought lubricant.

When Glant drove from Mercer Island to Thurston County for the meet up, police found him with a bottle of lubricant in his pocket, according to court documents.

Why would Bruce Glant, the father, want this advisory board? For the same reason Wellman wants it: to stop the MECTF from engaging in net nanny stings, which was the intent of the previous bill.

Establishing the MECTF Advisory Board could restrict their ability to conduct net nanny stings

Wellman testified in favor of the MECTF Advisory Board bill since she’s the sponsor. During her testimony this week, she complained that the MECTF engages in net nanny stings, apparently thinking it was a waste of time to search Craigslist for child sex seekers.

“We don’t have all the resources that I’m sure we would wish for to get real child predators off the streets. So we must be assured that the ones we are after are that are causing the problem or trying to cause,” Wellman said. “The most recent, the most real damage to our children are the ones that we are apprehending. I was very shocked, for instance, to learn personally of a particular case that involved over several hundred men where the State Patrol sought to find predators on Craigslist… I would not think going to the personal section of Craigslist with a section that was labeled women searching for men was a place that you’d necessarily think of going to find child predators.”

This was an apparent reference to the Glant case, almost the exact same statement she made when previously pushing legislation to get in the way of net nanny operations.

But what does this have to do with a MECTF Advisory Board? That board could stop the MECTF from engaging in these stings.

Sen. Lisa Wellman defended child sex seekers

Sen. Lisa Wellman advocated for her original legislation by claiming she’s fighting “the 1.5 million kiddos in our state.” However, she claims the current system of punishing would-be child sex seekers is unjust and that she was “excited” to be in front of the committee to make her case.

Wellman’s argument in favor of her net nanny bill was shocking. She claimed the current system is unjust because those caught in these stings aren’t talking to real children or, in some cases, children at all. When talking 补产辞耻迟听children, Wellman argued that they’re “fictional.” And, she said, punishment for this conduct amounts to a “life sentence” because it results in a lifetime of supervision and sex offender registration.

The impetus for that bill appeared to be Glant. Bruce Glant is a constituent of Wellman, who did not respond to a request for comment made through her office.

Bruce Glant doesn’t like net nanny stings

When Glant testified in favor of the MECTF Advisory Board, he complained that when the iteration of this board was dissolved years ago, the net nanny stings started.

“In 2015, the legislature sunset of the advisory board at Washington State patrols request. Soon after, the MECTF shifted focus to controversial net nanny stings, which the Washington State Institute for Public Policy found do not deter or reduce crime. Meanwhile, over 1800 children are reported missing in Washington at any given time. This is where our efforts should be focused,” he said.

He said MECTF shouldn’t focus on Craigslist, where his son was caught, but instead center efforts around online gaming where Glant said perverts are connecting with kids.

“No reports and anything I have seen, or we have seen in all of our investigations, identified Craigslist as a source of child exploitation. In conclusion, reinstating the advisory board will ensure funding is used effectively while providing essential administrative support. This allows officers to focus on what they do best, what they are trained to do, and do what they were mandated to do back in 1999 when the task force was established, which is the recovery of real children,” Glant concluded.

It seems pretty obvious what this is about. Yet Democrats are moving forward with this bill anyway, even though the intent is to get in the way of net nanny stings that take child sex seekers off our streets. Well, 苍别补谤濒测听all Democrats.

Rep. Lauren Davis to the rescue

State Rep. Lauren Davis (D-Shoreline), virtually the only Democrat consistently calling out the radical views of her colleagues, rightly noted that organizations supporting the MECTF Advisory Board were also supporting the bill reducing punishments for net nanny stings.

“And so it’s quite apparent to me, based on who’s supporting this bill, that these are the same individuals that are trying to again, impede the ability to do that upstream work (via net nanny stings). It is also true that you frequently… say that you know real children aren’t being harmed. I just want to remind you, Renton PD recently did a sting. One of the individuals that was caught in that sting was previously convicted for rape of a child. There was another sting recently that was a school teacher principal with Seattle Public Schools,” Davis told Glant.

Davis also noted that the studies cited to claim net nanny stings aren’t effective are shockingly taken out of context.

Glant did his best to dance around the reality that he’s defending child sex seekers 鈥� like ones in jail for trying to sleep with children while their mom watches.

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