How many of these men wil go on to court mandated AA and NA meetings where other minors attend? Scary, huh?

Sex sting: Pro golfer, teacher, students among 40 arrested

Forty people were arrested in an undercover sting in Osceola County that targeted people who travel to meet minors for sex, officials announced Tuesday. (Osceola County Sheriff’s Office / January 17, 2012)

By  Jeff Weiner Orlando Sentinel  Updated: 9:34 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

The arrests were the result of a weeklong, undercover operation led by the  Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, dubbed “Operation Red Cheeks.”  The operation ran from Jan. 8 through Monday.

Undercover detectives posed as children, or as parents or guardians, to chat  online with the suspects, who traveled to an arranged meeting location in  Osceola County for sex with a child, deputies said.

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The Sheriff’s Office said some of the suspects sent pornographic images to  undercover detectives during the online sting, and some brought alcohol or  drugs and other items to the meetings.

Agencies involved in the sting included the Citrus, Lake, Orange, Sumter,  Polk, Hardee and Manatee sheriff’s offices and Ocoee, Kissimmee, Sanford,  Orlando, Longwood and Casselberry police.

The suspects face a variety of charges, including traveling to seduce a child  to commit sex acts, using a computer to solicit a child or parent and, for  some, attempted lewd and lascivious battery of a child.

 “These predators stalk the cyber community looking for children,”  said Osceola Sheriff Bob Hansell, adding that because of the sting, “at  a minimum, 40 children did not fall prey to a sexual deviant.”

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