Idk. Not a lawyer. Your definition sounds oddly specific. I would think whether it's something the criminal would or would not normally do or whether the law enforcement agency somehow gains from it are irrelevant. Also worth noting this anti-pedo group isn't a law enforcement agency. Even so, I would think if it was a law enforcement agency doing something like this it would be called a **sting**, rather than entrapment. The man was clearly looking for boys online. With the whole governor thing the feds probably were the ones drawing the autistics into illegal plotting..