A 31-year-old Allentown man was charged Saturday with soliciting sex from a 12-year-old child, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania Attorney General.
Kristien Diaz arranged online to meet with a person he thought was a 12-year-old child, authorities said. Instead, it was an agent with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office posing as a child.
Diaz’s attorney, David Ritter of Wyomissing, is on vacation, according to a member of his office staff. Ritter didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Diaz’s cellphone had online conversations about the meet-up that showed Diaz was aware of the “child’s” age, according to the news release.
“This is extremely concerning deviant behavior, as this man took every step with full intentions to sexually abuse who he thought was a pre-teenage child,” Attorney General David Sunday said in the release.
Diaz is charged with attempted rape of a child, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, attempted statutory sexual assault, two counts of unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communication facility, and attempted corruption of minors.
Diaz was arraigned Saturday and sent to Lehigh County Jail on $500,000 bail.