'Child's Play' actor Ed Gale admits soliciting for child sex in sting operation

"Child's Play" actor Ed Gale admitted to Creep Catchers Unit that he was trying to meet a teenage boy for sex and he had engaged in sexually explicit online conversations with who he thought was a boy. The 59-year-old actor, who starred in the 1988 horror film "Child's Play" and several follow-ups, was confronted last Friday by the San Diego-based child advocacy group, which ran a sting operation at Gale's Hollywood apartment and released video from the encounter. The founder of the CC Unit, who goes by the name Ghost, met with Gale under the pretense that he was the 14-year-old boy Gale believed he had been conversing with. Upon meeting at Gale's apartment, Ghost presented Gale with printouts of the online conversations the actor allegedly had through one of CC Units' decoy accounts and asked Gale whether he had tried to solicit child pornography. A small group of 20-somethings are posing as young teens on online dating sites, trying to catch people they suspect are trying to lure them for sex.