College students charged in catch a predator assault as seen on social media [Video]

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Six Massachusetts college students are facing charges after police say they assaulted a man who had been tricked through a dating app into visiting campus as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on social media.

The group is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 16 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The man — an active-duty military service member — told police that he was in town for his grandmother’s funeral in October and began communicating with an Assumption University student whose Tinder profile said she was 18.

He said she invited him over, but when he got there, “a group of people came out of nowhere and started calling him a pedophile,” accusing him of wanting sex with 17-year-old girls, according to a complaint filed by campus police.

The man said he was grabbed but was able to break free and ran while being chased by at …