Joseph Roisman

> *"Well I'm completely shaved...what girl wants a pube in her mouth right?”*
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**Joseph Louis Roisman** is a suspected predator involved in the Petaluma, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for being one of only two men arrested in the sting that was not convicted, the other being Chandra Nunna.

## Biography

Joseph was 21 at the time he began chatting with a girl he believed to be thirteen named "Tori". He brags to the decoy that he's completely shaved in his private area because he didn't want any girl giving him oral sex to experience unshaven privates. He would also tell her she wouldn't have to worry if she didn't like it either, implying he wanted oral sex from the decoy. It only takes one day for Roisman to go from chat to meeting the girl.

Roisman boards a bus from San Clemente to Petaluma and takes a cab the rest of the way. The entire trip took five hours. Upon arriving, the decoy invites him into the backyard for drinks and proposes they get in the hot tub together. When Roisman says he didn't bring swim trunks, the decoy says he won't need them, to which he replies, "SWEET!". Roisman removes his shirt and comes face to face with Chris Hansen.

After Roisman puts his shirt back on, he says all he wanted to do was talk and be friends as long as he didn't cross that line. Chris reads back parts of his chat mentioning getting physical with her and questions him if he knew the legality behind what he was doing to which he said he did. When the cameras come out, Roisman says he has nothing more to say and walks out to be arrested by police.

Roisman was charged with Attempted Lewd Acts With a Child Under Fourteen. Roisman's parents paid for Joseph's defense, which cost $100,000. The legal battle was drawn out for five years until he was ultimately acquitted in 2011 when the judge threw the case out. The judge would also criticize Perverted Justice's methods of obtaining evidence, saying it was tantamount to entrapment. The Navy conducted a separate investigation and through their findings, Roisman was dishonorably discharged.

## Subsequent Arrests

Two years later, on January 11th, 2013, Roisman was arrested again in Watsonville, California when a 50 year old woman brought charges against him for an unwanted sexual advance and exposing himself.

Later that year, on May 14th, he was arrested a third time for Possession of a Stolen Vehicle and Possession of Controlled Substance Paraphenalia. From 2013 to 2014, Roisman had been booked into the Santa Cruz Jail a staggering seven times.

## Trivia

* Roisman, who already had a tattoo on his pectoral muscle when he was first arrested, accrued numerous pieces of body art since that time, including a neck tattoo that reads "TROUBLE".

## References

1. ↑ https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/man-acquitted-of-charge-stemming-from-2006-to-catch-a-predator-tv-sex-sti/
2. ↑ https://patch.com/california/watsonville/former-watsonville-sailor-cleared-in-to-catch-a-predator-sting
3. ↑ https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2013/01/14/man-cleared-in-teen-sex-case-faces-new-charges/
4. ↑ https://patch.com/california/watsonville/locals-arrested--5-duis-in-a-day