Certainly, with law enforcement agents from the smallest local community to the federal authorities active in the entrapment game, and with the voyeuristic and surrogacy appeal the issue has for law enforcement agents, it is possible the incest/pedophile subculture is the creation of several over-active law enforcement officers. It is possible, but not likely.
If this is a ruse, it has been actively maintained since April 2000 through summer 2002. None of the personas have deviated from the ruse.
If police were involved, they may have used the verbal narrative to entrap, but the photos provided by e-mail would certainly have been illegal for a law enforcement officer to transmit. However, an attorney for the Chase Law Group, the nation's largest law firm and specialists in child pornography cases, stated in an interview that he believes one third or more of the pornography on the internet is generated by law enforcement agents involved in entrapment.
Law enforcement officers would also not have involved themselves in the "interview" process, which included sexual relations with prospective recruits into the lifestyle. The Dana persona did engage in sexual acts with a prospective recruit.
Finally, if it were an entrapment scheme, the police would move with more determination and would be less secretive, timid, and cautious, knowing that they were above prosecution. The personas did not act with such self-confidence and continue to act and communicate with caution.
Several efforts to obtain law enforcement cooperation in investigating the phenomenon have been unsuccessful, as have been efforts to get an admission from law enforcement authorities that the subculture is or is not a police entrapment scheme. Local authorities will not cooperate; state authorities will not cooperate; federal authorities will not cooperate.