I'm a 32 year old male, living in Texas. Between the ages of 12-16, I was continuously preyed on online by a man (now 42) that lives in California. We met on MySpace, when I was in my struggling years of coming to terms with being gay, and was at a very vulnerable time in my life. I don't want to get into details, but basically he was very manipulative, controlling, solicited pictures from me against my will (threatened me with outting me to my parents), and had several other children he was talking to at the same time.
Some background on this man. I believe he was 22 when I met him. I was 12. At the time he was talking to multiple children that I knew of, and was "friends" with hundreds upon hundreds. He has moved cross country several times to live close to, live with, or shelter vulnerable kids. He talked at lengths about moving to Texas to be with me, have me run away from my loving family, and shack up with him. He blackmailed me, using my sexuality against me to solicit CP from me. The list goes on.
I've kept tabs on him over the years. He's extremely careful on social media, especially in the later years, locking down all of his profiles, and has done his best to erase any footprint he has online. But yet, still has a Facebook page and Instagram with close to a hundred child friends, with pictures of him with obvious kids. At one point, he had built a website offering local tutoring and mentoring services to young teens. I'm guessing you get the picture by now. This man has dedicated his whole life to preying on kids. That's literally all he cares about. I kept believing over the years he would organically get caught, but that never happened. When I was in college I remember reporting him to some crimes against kids agency. A week or two later I received a phone call where I discussed my experience at length, and gave them all my information I had on him. Of course, nothing came from it.
I've never really told anyone about this. Not even my partner I've been with for 11 years. I don't know, it's embarrassing. But I find myself always revisiting it in my thoughts, looking him up, seeing him actively preying on kids, and it makes my blood boil.
I think I'm ready to confront him. Or expose him. Or catfish him and expose him. Or hire DAP to do just that. Either way, I want to look him in the face and let him know what a disgusting human being he is. I'd like to hit him, spit on him, curb stomp him, but I'll settle for anything. I'm not quite sure where to begin, or what to plan for. But I'm finally at a point in my life where I'm stable, successful, have a strong supportive partner and family, but I feel like this is the only thing that I look back on and feel like I haven't done enough. I want to end his escapades of preying on children, but also want the satisfaction of exposing him to the world for myself. I feel like I deserve that.
I have his full name, which has stuck with me for 20 years. He doesn't go by it online for obvious reasons, so I feel like I have a leg up in exposing him, vs most of his other victims that just know him by his online persona. I have his Facebook account, Instagram account, telegram account, phone number, current address, I believe I have his phone number, but not entirely sure on that one. I've done my digging on him to say the least. He doesn't have any criminal history that I've been able to find. He is very careful, always has been.
I'm not really sure what I'm asking for in this post. Maybe ideas on how to start this journey? Recommendations on what this journey should look like? Maybe I just wanted to get this off my chest. But either way, something has to happen. 20 years later, and I still think about it, at least weekly.

I also gotta say, DAP's videos have helped me through this journey. Been a long time supporter. Thank you guys for what you do.