Long Island couple hunts child predators, one sting at a time
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When Mike Villiani approached a Shoreham-Wading River music teacher this week outside the school where he works, he wasn’t acting on a hunch.
He was already armed with days of messages, screenshots and a recorded phone call. All evidence, he said, of explicit conversations with someone the educator believed was a 13-year-old girl.
“There’s not a doubt in my mind how guilty he is,” Villiani told Greater Long Island, hours after the Wading River School educator was removed from his position following the sting operation. “I know the stuff he was saying and the stuff he was asking for.”
Villiani operates Predator Poachers Long Island, a vigilante-type group that video records and shares online stings aimed at exposing adults attempting to meet up with minors. The teacher — a married father from Islip — is the group’s latest “catch.”
