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Alex Cabrero Reporting A man is arrested for arranging a sexual encounter with an underage girl he met on the Internet. But what's even more disturbing about this case is who that man had with him when he was arrested.
New information tonight and a plea from police for help in their investigation. Twenty-seven-year-old Bryan Daniel King is still in jail waiting for his court date on charges he enticed a minor using the internet. That minor turned out to be an investigator with Utah's internet crimes against children taskforce and that's just the first surprise.
One look at Lt. Rhett McQuistan and no way would you mistake him for a girl unless you were talking to him in a chat room.
Rhett McQuistan, Utah Internet Crimes Against Children: "They have no idea who they're talking to."
In cyberspace, McQuistan plays an underage girl hunting for the types of guys you hope your children never meet for real.
A few weeks ago, his 14-year old character, met 27-year old Bryan Daniel King of Magna, and you can probably imagine what happened next.
Lt. Rhett McQuiston: "It was very quick. The first contact with the individual he did indicate sexual activity that he wanted to engage in with the underage child."
Investigators with Utah's internet crime against children taskforce set the trap and arrested King at the place where he thought he was meeting that 14-year old girl.
He was surprised, but maybe not as surprised as investigators when they found his two children just one and four-years-old in the backseat of his car.
Lt. Rhett McQuiston: "He indicated that due to his wife being at work, that his children were too young to leave at home alone."
Even more disturbing is what King said later. According to court documents, Kind told investigators he has chatted with other underage females, but couldn't recall their names or screen names and that two years ago at the Gateway Mall, he met a female who was about 15 years old, and they engaged in sexual intercourse on two occasions.
Capt. Chris Ahearn, Utah Internet Crimes Against Children: "I think it undermines how driven some of these people are when they're in the process of being a child predator."
Because of that conversation, police want parents to take a look at their children's' chat room buddy list. King used the screen names "sooner_freak_623" and "Darby_623." His name could also be listed under Daniel King.
His two children are now in the custody of his wife, who said she met King on the Internet when she was just 16.
