To Catch a Predator · Herndon investigation
John Kennelly
John Kennelly was confronted twice during the Fairfax, Virginia investigation. He pleaded guilty and received a suspended two-year prison term and three years of probation.
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- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Fairfax County, Virginia
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Boy6
- Case number
- Not established
Personal details
- Born
- April 14, 1962
- Occupation
- Food counter worker
- Marital status
- Single
- Eyes
- Brown
Charges & sentence
Use of a communications device to facilitate offenses involving children
Convicted9
Sentence
2-year prison term fully suspended; 3 years of probation and registration.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Case records
Hansen investigation2006 · Sentenced
Use of a communications device to facilitate offenses involving children
Convicted9
Reviewed sting-related legal outcome. The ten-year statutory maximum is not a sentence. Later indecent-exposure and probation matters are separate.
Separate criminal matter2007 · Charged
- Filed
- May 30, 2007
Indecent exposure × 2
Unverified3
Reported two charges filed May 30, 2007 concerning March 10 conduct. No court disposition obtained. Community report of a year spent in prison does not establish whether it was a sentence for these charges, revoked probation, or credited custody.
Sources 3
Supervision proceedingCase pending
Contemporaneous article says Kennelly was already detained for violating probation when exposure counts were filed. The report discusses possible future revocation only; no actual revocation order or sanction established.
Sources 3
Case narrative
Biography
By 2006, Kennelly had been unemployed for quite some time. The user asserted that John always seemed weird and he could always sense it.
Trivia
Many fans credit him for getting direct police involvement on the show, although according to Xavier Von Erck , it was a nightmare convincing the Fairfax police to arrest Kennelly since Perverted Justice was accused of not contacting them at all, which was a lie, seeing as Perverted Justice had been in touch with a detective for weeks before the detective went radio silent without explanation. A fan on Tish 's Discord server saw Kennelly at a Harris Teeters and posted a photograph of him in the pharmacy. Despite the seriousness of his initial crimes and the incident in the park with the two girls, Kennelly is still registered as a Tier 1 offender and is not a lifetime registrant.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
John Kennelly, To Catch a Predator Wiki contributors; see revision and history links. · CC-BY-SA
Media
Sources
- 1Catching potential Internet sex predatorsNBC names John Kennelly and records the house encounter and a subsequent encounter outside a restaurant.
- 2A Look Back at the MOST SHOCKING Moments from To Catch a PredatorOfficial Chris Hansen channel upload. The publisher identifies John Kennelly in this retrospective discussion of a Hansen investigation.
- 3Man Charged: 2 Indecent ExposuresNames John Kennelly, forty-five, and the earlier televised investigation. Reports two indecent-exposure counts charged May 30, 2007 and existing probation-violation detention; the earlier June 2006 guilty plea produced a fully suspended two-year term and three years probation.
- 422: “Then come in nekid” on MegaphonePublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 522: “Then come in nekid” on SpotifyPublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 6John Kennelly (community wiki)Attributed community article. Revision date describes the article update, not a court or sting event. Full infobox, narrative sections, references and assets are retained in the private archive.
- 7John Kennelly: occupation informationThe profile infobox lists these occupations. Undated roles do not establish current employment.
- 8John Kennelly: legal outcome (revision 16332)2-year prison term fully suspended; 3 years of probation and registration.
- 9John Kennelly: archived criminal-history narrativeLegal process and sentence reports a June 12, 2006 guilty plea to one communications-device felony. Post-Predator Activities attributes a year spent in prison following later exposure allegations, but does not supply an imposed sentencing order.