US: Israeli busted in sex sting involving children
Israeli physicist arrested in US for trying to arrange sex with woman and her two young daughters
The 30-year-old physicist, Yaron Segal, was arrested at an airport in Colorado after he allegedly flew there to meet the woman and her daughters, whom he believed were 16 and 12, according to authorities.
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What Segal didn't know was that the woman that he met in an internet chat room was an undercover federal agent. He reportedly trolled chat rooms with such titles as “childslavesex” and "ChildRapeTortureBrutality.”
He first caught the attention of the authorities in the US in February.
According to a federal complaint, Segal made clear he wanted to have sex with the woman and her two daughters. "A majority of the chats were very sexually explicit," the agent reported.
In the weeks after first making his wishes clear, Segal continued to converse with the agent about sex with her and her daughters over the phone and through e-mail, chat and text messages. He also sent her explicit photos and videos of himself.
'Small vibrator for youngest child'
One e-mail message sent in February contained links to Amazon listings for sex toys he wanted to buy for the girls, according to the authorities.
In a phone conversation on March 10, he said he would bring "a dildo, small vibrator for the youngest child" on his trip to Colorado. On march 16, he e-mailed the agent a photo of the sex toys he had bought.
Segal was apprehended by agents of the US Department of Homeland Security and was charged with felonies, including "traveling with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person under 12," according Fox report, which cited the Smoking Gun website.
Segal began working at MIT last year after completing a doctorate at Yale University’s applied physics department, according to the report.
Co-workers at the MIT lab where Segal was employed said they knew nothing of his arrest. "Yaron’s on vacation," a co-worker told the Smoking Gun. "I think he’s camping."
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