The FBI isn't the only law enforcement agency using the sting to nail Internet underage sex hunters. The district attorney's office in Jefferson County, Colorado now has its twenty-fifth such case, this one involving a man in Littleton charged with trying to have sex with an undercover D.A. officer posing as a 14-year-old Internet chatter.
Arthur J. Kahn is only the latest to be snagged by a DA's investigator posing as a young boy or girl online, the Denver Post says. Authorities arrested him on suspicion of enticing a child and attempted sexual assault last Friday, when the Post says he drove to a south county bagel shop to meet the presumed young girl. He's released on $25,000 bond.
The paper says Kahn's arrest was the 25th for DA's investigator Michael Harris since he started the Net stings four years ago. Harris tells the paper he was "hanging out'' in a chatroom Thursday when a man who identified himself as "Printngpaw'' and claimed he was 22 years old struck up a conversation.
"He asked if I was interested in sex. Then he got more specific,'' Harris says. He gave a telephone number and, when an undercover officer called, Kahn became even more sexually explicit about their meeting - and wanted to meet that night.
Kahn has no apparent previous record, the Post says, but Harris isn't queasy about the sting operation. "The Internet has given so many individuals who want to go out and have sex with a younger person the opportunity to approach younger children for purposes of sex,'' he tells the paper. "Children have computers in their room, their home. They don't feel the danger of striking up conversations with older individuals on the Internet.''
