ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Authorities say an Allentown man tried to pay for, and meet for, sexual contact with someone he believed to be a 12-year-old child.<\/p>\n
Kristien Diaz, 31, is charged with several felonies, including attempted rape of a child, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
When Diaz drove to an arranged meeting site last week in Lehigh County, Office of Attorney General agents and local police arrested him, the AG\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Diaz made the arrangements online where he sought out a person to facilitate sexual abuse of a child, according to the AG\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
According to the news release, the person who communicated with Diaz was an Office of Attorney General agent.<\/p>\n
The AG\u2019s office said Diaz was arraigned and bail was set at $500,000. He was taken to Lehigh County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n
When Diaz was arrested, investigators seized his cellphone which revealed the online conversations regarding the meet-up and that Diaz was aware of the \u201cchild\u2019s\u201d age, the AG\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
The AG\u2019s office said 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, and criminal use of a communication facility \u2014 all felonies \u2014 and misdemeanor attempted corruption of minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Authorities say an Allentown man tried to pay for, and meet for, sexual contact with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1646,5855,335,2493],"class_list":{"0":"post-58410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-arrest","12":"tag-child","13":"tag-rape","14":"tag-sexual-abuse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}