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Turning Point USA’s Frontlines team exposed a child predator living in Nebraska. Frontlines recorded hours of incriminating phone calls and text messages between 23-year-old Christopher Carey and the team’s decoy, who he believed to be a 12-year-old girl.
Carey, a newly unemployed man in his early 20s, who recently began identifying as a transgender female, started talking with the Frontlines’ decoy in February 2023. He was immediately informed that the girl he was speaking to was underage. Over several months, Frontlines recorded conversations in which Carey told the decoy that he was interested in a sexual and romantic relationship with her, informing her that they would need to “keep it a secret” until she was “19 years old.”
In one conversation, Carey spoke in graphic terms about his genitals and informed the decoy that he could not wear a condom, should he have intercourse with her.
Carey was fired from his job just one week before he agreed to an in-person meeting with Frontlines’ decoy. In one conversation, he told the decoy that he planned to “take her to a dark place to make out.”
Last week, the Frontlines team traveled to Hastings, Nebraska to confront Carey, who was under the assumption that he would be meeting with the 12-year-old decoy at a Walmart.
The Frontlines team surveyed Carey’s actions from inside the Walmart on a busy Sunday afternoon and saw him shopping in women’s sections for swimwear and undergarments. He was wearing a tight and slightly cropped shirt that read “love” several times in the Pride rainbow color scheme.
After a few minutes of wandering around the store, seemingly looking for the decoy, Carey called the phone number he had used to stay in contact with the decoy for several months. To Carey’s surprise, Kalen D’Almeida from the Frontlines team approached him, with the ringing phone in his hand.
D’Almeida calmly told Carey that he knew who he was, why he was there, and who he thought he would be meeting with that day. Carey immediately began denying the information, and told D’Almeida that he was “not going to jail.”
As D’Almeida continued to read back Carey’s own statements to him, the 23-year-old began running out of the store, shouting at the Frontlines team to “leave [him] alone.”
Once out of the store, Carey attempted to assault a member of the Frontlines team and yelled racial slurs at him before getting in his vehicle.
D’Almeida began tapping on Carey’s window, saying, “This isn’t going away.” The 23-year-old then placed his vehicle in reverse and crashed into a moving truck behind him.
Without getting out to assess the damage, Carey fled the scene of the accident.
The Frontlines team stayed at the scene to assist the elderly couple driving the truck that had been hit by Carey, providing them with Carey’s full legal name, vehicle information, and the team’s personal phone numbers so that they could share video evidence of the damage with them. Frontlines then contacted local police to give officers all information related to Carey and the hit-and-run incident.
Just over an hour later, Carey agreed to meet with the Frontlines team in a nearby parking lot. D’Almeida began speaking with him about the conversations he had with the decoy, and about his alleged transgender identity. During this time, another member of the Frontlines team alerted the authorities to Carey’s location, and within a few minutes, several police vehicles were on the scene and began questioning Carey.
Police issued Carey a citation for the hit-and-run, and took the Frontlines team to the station to sort through the evidence the team had acquired for the past several months.
Frontlines has reached out to the Hastings Police Department, as well as the district attorney’s office, but has not yet received an official response as to whether or not Carey will be arrested for his illicit actions.
“There are predators everywhere,” D’Almeida said, after recounting a chilling experience from his own childhood when an adult male attempted to lure him into a restroom with him. “By the grace of God, I rejected his offer,” D’Almeida explained. “That always sort of stuck with me as a bizarre experience.”
“This is me doing my part to help protect kids,” he added.
This story is still developing, updates will be published on https://www.tpusa.com/frontlines-reporters.
