Where do legal and moral boundaries lie in hunting down Internet pedophile predators?
But “Hearts of Man” is a self-important work that blurs the very distinctions it hopes to examine. Adriano Shaplin’s language is highfalutin, reaching with sophomoric glee for alliteration and rhymes, and the unlikable characters seem scraped off the cutting room floor of “Law and Order.” The only special victim here is the audience. The sex sting has already happened when this quasi-courtroom drama begins; Rabideux (Drew Friedman) was arrested on his way to meet a 14-year-old boy he had chatted up online. But the “boy” was actually a middle-aged cop (Dennis McSorley) and so defense counsel Vicki (Stephanie Viola) argues that this was really an arrangement between two consenting adults. The judge (Tara V. Perry) doesn’t buy it. Nor does she buy any of the ways the tough-as-nails, churchgoing, ambitious lawyer cooks up to quash the case. Coincidentally (uh, oh) Kris, Vicki’s assistant (Kristen Sieh), a just-starting-out lawyer (who seems to wear only untucked, unironed shirts) is the pe
