Nov 28, 2007 11:00 pm US/Eastern
2 Pa. Men Busted In Online Child Sex Sting
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
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30-year-old Matthew Grayev of King of Prussia was arrested after allegedly soliciting undercover officers posing as teenage girls during an internet sex sting.
CBS
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office announced the
arrest of two accused predators busted in a child sex sting. Among those
arrested were a car salesman and a hotel desk clerk from Pennsylvania.
Authorities said 30-year-old Mathew Grayev of King of Prussia
and 57-year-old Clifford Balson of Bryn Mawr were taken into custody during an
internet child sex sting bust operated by the Attorney General's child predator
unit.
The two suspects are accused of using chat rooms to proposition undercover
agents posing as 13 and 14-year-old girls.
Grayev allegedly sexually propositioned and sent sexually explicit webcam
videos to the agents.
"Within an hour of that conversation, Grayev allegedly
contacted the girl again, this time sending a nude webcam video of
himself," said Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett.
Bolsen allegedly sent an instant message to a girl he believed to be 13, and
then exposed himself three times by webcam videos.
Attorney General Tom Corbett said since 2005, 108 internet predators have been
arrested thanks to the efforts of the child predator unit and face similar
charges as Grayev and Bolsen.
Corbett wants parents to understand the dangers of the internet to unsupervised
children.
"It's essential for parents to understand how quickly the online
conversations with these predators can move to an actual initial contact and
from that, the transmission of these images," Corbett said. "You
would not let you child play in a playground in this day and age without some
kind of supervision, to know that they are being protected. It's the same way
on the internet. It's just a different cyber-playground that these people are
coming into.
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