Authorities in Colorado
say they have apprehended a
Focus on the Family employee
suspected of arranging to have sex with an underage girl he met
online.
The suspect, Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42, began chatting online
Thursday with someone who told him she was a girl younger than
15. The contact was actually an undercover female police
officer.
Ovalle, a resident of Colorado Springs, works for a
Spanish-speaking arm of Focus on the Family and narrates
Scripture for CDs, according to the
Denver Post
.
During the first online exchange, according to an affidavit
filed with the Jefferson Country District Attorney's Office,
Ovalle asked the contact, "Do you like older guys?" and
"Would you like to meet me?"
The next day, says the affidavit, Ovalle logged on to find the
officer portraying the child and told her he was home and
"horny." He confirmed that her mother was working, and
after asking for her phone number and address, he asked her to
tell him what she liked when having sex. He described his
preferences in graphic detail.
Ovalle was arrested on Friday when he appeared for the
rendezvous. He is scheduled to be formally charged on Thursday
with two felony counts of criminal attempt of sexual assault on
a minor and Internet luring of a child. He is being held in the
Jefferson County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.
"We're
shocked," said Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman for Focus on
the Family.
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