Mohamad Abdalla

> "I'm an Egyptian. I'm Muslim. I don't do this stuff!"
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**Mohamad Abdalla** is a suspected predator featured in the Flagler Beach, Florida edition of **To Catch A Predator**. He is most known for his arrogant, passive-aggressive attitude and adamant denial about the situation during the sting, as well as for using his religion and nationality as reasons why he wouldn't commit a sex crime.

## Biography

Mohamad was a 34-year-old real estate agent at the time he began chatting with a female Perverted Justice decoy he believed to be thirteen. He asks the decoy various personal questions, such as if she was a virgin, if she had sex with her old boyfriend and if she masturbated. Mohamad would show a desire to get and receive oral sex from the decoy, telling her at least twice to open her legs up wide. He also transmitted various naked pictures with the heads cropped off.

Abdalla would show up at the house late at night after making a date to do the things that were talked about in the chat. Upon driving up, the decoy waved him into the house and he happily came in with a huge smile on his face. His happiness was short-lived as Chris Hansen soon came out after he was situated. Mohamad starts to spin a tale about how he was just driving and the girl came out and told him to come in. Hansen acts like he is going with the story until he stops him dead in his tracks saying, "What do you suppose are the odds any of that being even remotely true?". Hansen starts to turn up the heat with Abdalla's chatlog, which gets straight denial from him. He does, however, admit the naked pictures he sent to look like him, burning the denial card he had when he cropped the heads off. When Hansen comments on a provocative statement he typed with the timestamp of when he said it, Abdalla denies it because he was in his office at the time. However, Hansen only looks a few lines to read that Abdalla types that he was in his office. In a figurative corner, he tries to use his religion and nationality as reasons why he wouldn't have sex with a child. Hansen informs Abdalla that he has walked into a Dateline investigation and beats a hasty retreat when he sees the cameras. Upon exiting the house, the Flagler Beach Police Department moves in to arrest him, telling him to get on the ground. He freezes in fear and gets spear-tackled to the ground for his trouble.

At the police station, he continues to be passive-aggressive towards the officers by refusing to get out of the police van and wriggling around during a search of his person. Abdalla immediately lawyers up when brought in for interrogation and his wife bails him out two days later. He is charged with Attempting a Lewd Act on a Child, Using the Computer to Send Lewd Images, and Using a Computer to Seduce a Minor. Abdalla pled not guilty to the charges but absconded before his trial. As of February 2021, there is still a standing bench warrant for his arrest.

## Trivia/Behind the scenes

* Due to Abdalla absconding before his court date, he was never tried or convicted of the charges against him. Because of this, his chatlog was never published on Perverted Justice's website. The particulars of his chat can only be gleaned by the snippets shown and said on **To Catch A Predator**.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/index.php?pg=wantedmohamed
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