By Merritt Melancon
The Athens Banner-Herald
December 15, 2010
When an undercover Barrow County deputy nabbed a South Georgia man who traveled to Barrow County to have sex with a 15-year-old girl, the officer didn't take a predator off the streets of Winder.
But his work contributed to a statewide mission to keep Georgia children safe online.
"We just felt it gave us a different facet for the sheriff's office to be able to intercept predators before they reach a victim," said Sheriff Jud Smith. "I know we didn't (arrest) anyone from Barrow County, but we might have saved someone down in Fort Stewart or South Georgia, somebody's child, from becoming a victim."
Barrow County is one of the latest in Georgia to join a statewide effort to weed out online predators. About 110 local law enforcement agencies now are proactively looking for people who would take advantage of minors online, according to John Whitaker, a special agent in charge of the GBI's Internet Crimes Against Children task force.
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