Inderjeet Singh

> **Inderjeet:** "You can talk, you can converse but it doesn't mean I'm going to do it, right? Unless I do it. Unless you...catch me at one point doing it, of course."
> **Chris Hansen:** "So you're saying I'd have to catch you having sex with a 13 year old girl before you could get in trouble?"
> **Inderjeet:** "Before you could put me against the law, yes."
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>  - Inderjeet putting his academic skills to "good" use.
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**Inderjeet Singh** is a suspected predator featured in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is known for trying to outsmart Chris Hansen.

## Biography

A Perverted Justice volunteer named Carey Gregory pretended to be "Julie," a 12-year-old girl. Inderjeet Singh, aged 23, got in touch with the decoy. Singh asked "Julie" her age, gender, and location at the beginning of their communication. When the decoy said she was in sixth grade, he immediately shifted the conversation into a sexual one by inquiring if "middle school people are sex freak[s]." Singh questioned her in-depth about her previous sexual encounters, including whether or not she understood the terms "eating out," asked if she liked to play in the shower, if she could "take" older men, and if she could perform "doggy style" sex.

Later in the chat, Singh said he was "a bit concerned doing under age" and wondered whether he would get into jail for talking to a minor online. Singh suggested that they watch a movie and play video games together as he carried on the conversation. He then asked the girl if she was a cop who was going to arrest him. Singh quickly changed the topic to sex, though, and arranged to meet the decoy at her home shortly after. Singh was advised by the decoy to bring Mike's Hard Lemonade and condoms.

## Sting

Chris Hansen greeted Singh as soon as he entered the house through the curtains. Singh responded that his name was Andy when questioned about it, immediately asking whether he was being "framed." He stated that he merely stopped by to see a movie and lying when asked the decoy's age, claiming that she had informed him she was 13. Chris showed Singh the chat log in which she said 12. Singh insisted she was 13 because her profile stated that age. He claimed that although they had discussed having sex, they ultimately opted to meet up only to watch a movie or play video games. He continued by inquiring if Chris was a police officer. Singh then attempted to outsmart Chris, saying that he can coerce minors all that he wants, but can't be punished unless he's caught in the act of having sex with one.

Chris questioned him on this statement, but Singh doubled down, stating that he was completely safe from the law because he wasn't caught having sex with a child. It's at this point where Chris asks Singh if he is a lawyer, to which Singh responded with, "I'm not a lawyer. I'm basically into academics." Chris followed up by debunking Singh's assumption, informing him that many laws had already been broken. Singh played dumb, claiming that he had no idea grooming an underaged child was against the law. He nervously grabbed a chip from the plate and ate it, asking if Chris was "conducting a study or something." After Chris finally introduced himself, the film crew entered, and Singh requested to be removed from the camera. He was told by Chris that he could leave, so Singh stood up and left; the Riverside police then took him into custody.

## Police interview

Singh attempted to persuade investigator Chad Bianco that he should be released from custody because he was in school and had not committed any other crimes. Singh persisted in saying that he simply went to the residence to play video games with the girl during his police interrogation.

### Aftermath

Singh was originally charged with three felonies: attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, attempted oral copulation with a minor under 14 years of age and more than a 10 year age difference between victim and offender, and attempted forcible sexual penetration with a foreign object. His bail was set at $50,000. A jury found Singh guilty on a felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age while the other two charges were dropped. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, three years of probation, lifetime registration as a sex offender, required to take sex offender treatment, could not be around or work with children under the age of 18, pay significant fines, submit a DNA sample, and submit to random searches.

In 2011, Singh filed an appeal, arguing that the evidence was inadequate to convict him since other logical inferences about his intent about the evidence may be drawn. Additionally, he argued that the requirements that he register as a sex offender violated his right to equal protection because there was no justification for individuals who had been convicted of other felonious sex offenses to be exempt from the requirement to register. According to the court, Singh's right to equal protection under the law was not violated by the ruling ordering him to register as a sex offender. They also rejected his argument that the evidence against him was insufficient to condemn him and upheld the verdict.

## Trivia

* He shares a first and last name with Inderjeet Singh, a gold medalist shot-put athlete from Punjab, India. Born in 1988, he has won two gold medals, one silver, and one bronze, with a personal best throw of 20.63 meters. Five years younger than the Singh that appears on the show, he would have been 18 at the time, graduating from Delhi Public School Nigahi long before his first major competitions.
* He appears at the house wearing a black pagri on his head, a type of traditional headwear commonly worn by people from the Indian subcontinent.
* At one point during the interview with Chris, Singh seems to look directly at one of Dateline's hidden cameras but does not see it.
* Singh was deported following his conviction and his current whereabouts are unknown.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/booking/bookingcollage.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1577344.html
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=guy\_from\_mars83
4. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-catch-predator-update-riverside-part.html