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  Rabbi Caught in TV Sex Sting Convicted

TheWBALChannel.com
September 7, 2006

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/9801695/detail.html

Alexandria, Va. -- A Maryland rabbi caught in a nationally televised Internet sex sting has been convicted of traveling to Virginia for sex with what he believed to be a 13-year-old boy.

A federal judge found David Kaye, 56, of Rockville, guilty of coercing and enticing a minor and of traveling across state lines for illegal sexual contact.

During a bench trial last month, prosecutors presented sexually graphic chats between Kaye and adults from an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice who were pretending to be minors.

The group was working with the NBC newsmagazine "Dateline." Kaye was one of several men who showed up at a Herndon home and were confronted on camera by correspondent Chris Hansen.

Kaye acknowledged during his trial that he traveled to the home in hopes of having sex, but said he always believed the person on the other end of the conversation was a young adult role-playing as a 13-year-old.

 
 

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