traveler
n.— «Almost every day police or federal agents arrest what they call a “traveler,” a sexual predator who uses the Web not just to ask an underage child for sex, but who also arranges a meeting.» —“Online Seduction” in Manhattan, Kan. CBS News June 8, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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