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The Jan. 15 arrest of a former Lebanon High School band teacher is shedding light on a network of citizen-led groups hunting potential child predators online.

>> in this case, as in the previous investigations, we worked with the computer watchdog group perverted justice. its decoys go into chat rooms posing as 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old kids home alone, open to the idea of a sexual liaison, but they go into chat rooms and they just wait. and they never make the first contact, and sometimes in a matter of minutes a man is approaching them online. the online chat becomes sexual, and the next thing you know a meeting is set. >> come on in, man. i just whacked my toe on the banister. >> where are you? >> i hit my toe on the banister. i've got to go get a ...

Prison time, because the 15-year-old boy he pleaded guilty to having sex with told him he was older. >> how old, 68? >> and he wasn't going to catch a break on this one, because it said in the transcript, this boy was 13. >> robert lyons. i thought it was somebody else >> clearly he's had experience going through the criminal justice system, but it became pretty clear immediately during the police interview that lyons knew his way around the system and saw no benefit whatsoever in having any meaningful conversation with detectives. >> why are you here? tell me what's going on today. what are y...

Like this, taking a young girl for a ride that long? on a trip that long? >> he could do anything and she would be powerless. she's away from people she knows and familiar locations. he could take her anywhere. >> later, sierras pleaded no contest to one count of an attempted lewd act on a child. his lawyer told us he has no comment. back at the house, 26-year-old robert williams is thinking about coming inside. >> come on in. i made a couple drinks. >> williams is a truck driver who chatted online with someone who told him she was 11 years old. our youngest decoy ever. he sends a live web cam...