Gregory Diederich

Diederich's Riverside mugshot

**Gregory Paul Diderich** is a potential predator involved in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. Shown briefly, he is best known for showing up alongside his boyfriend Maurice Ruiz to the sting house for a three-way with the decoy.

## Chat

Gregory Paul Diederich first contacted a Perverted Justice decoy posing as a 13-year-old boy on *Gay.com* using the screen name "lustfulucker", then switched to *YIM*. Diderich acknowledged engaging in online hookups with younger men, but felt it was "kinda pervish" for a man his age to be conversing with a teenage boy. Afterward, he declared that he enjoyed "young latin bois" and confessed to having slept with a 13-year-old boy in the past. The decoy was then questioned by Diderich about his penis size and whether or not he had ever engaged in or received oral sex. Diderich informed the decoy the following day that he enjoyed to "play with a guys dick thru his undies...tease him." He claimed he enjoyed giving other guys a handjob while slipping into their underwear. Diderich went on to say that he hoped it were normal for grown men to chat with underage boys in a sexually explicit manner.

As he was chatting with the decoy, Diederich's boyfriend, Maurice Ruiz, also hit him up. Diderich proposed that in order for the decoy to gain experience, he should be the first man to engage in oral sex with him. He continued by saying that he didn't want the police to learn about their sexual activity. As the two continued to talk about oral sex, Diederich asked the decoy if he was cut or uncut.  He then began to groom the decoy, expressing his knowledge of how awful it was to grow up gay and experience loneliness as a young teenager. Diederich offered to explain the meaning of top or bottom and the sensation of oral sex to the young child. He finally cautioned the decoy against spending too much time online, noting that there were perverts who wanted to abuse young children. Diederich and Ruiz showed up at the sting home a few days later. Diederich got in touch with the decoy and asked him to go outside because they were scared to enter the house.

## Arrest

Diederich and Ruiz made the decision to proceed on foot after parking their vehicle in front of the sting house. Diederich was seen approaching Del Harvey, the decoy pretending to be the teenage boy, while carrying a tray of drinks. Diederich came to a complete halt and whirled around. He indicated to Ruiz to follow suit. The Riverside cops then arrested the two.

### Aftermath

Diederich was charged with a felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age and a felony count of attempted oral copulation with a minor under 14 years of age and more than a 10 year age difference between victim and offender. The court set his bail at $50,000. In 2008, Diederich was convicted on the former felony charge while the other was dropped. He was sentenced to six months in jail, three years of probation, and was required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Diederich and Ruiz would later get married, and despite both of them being registered sex offenders, they still got to have custody over Ruiz's children.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/booking/bookingcollage.html
2. ↑ https://meganslaw.ca.gov/OffenderDisplay.aspx?searchby=offender&ID=18608211M2965&NSOPRFlag=True&x=e1e37181-d13e-4e74-ab05-30d8e782b88d
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=LustfulSucker
4. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/10/to-catch-predator-update-riverside-part.html