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Nov 28, 2007 11:00 pm US/Eastern

2 Pa. Men Busted In Online Child Sex Sting

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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