{"id":58716,"date":"2025-12-12T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58716\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:28:12","slug":"allentown-man-accused-of-soliciting-sex-from-a-12-year-old-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58716\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man accused of soliciting sex from a 12-year-old child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JLSIZ2J7LVCXRMXIMRNHFM7ZN4\">A 31-year-old Allentown man was charged Saturday with soliciting sex from a 12-year-old child, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/taking-action\/attorney-general-sundays-child-predator-section-catches-allentown-man-attempting-to-meet-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-12-year-old-child\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOnxplleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmNnZuV1ZKaUI5THltNFhVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnO2KsdqXu2Q0ln2zwTSbWdKyebITaUkLhP_mQ0PgvH0I7jwKiUFhFUQ83xn_aem_VXMF6g33suLg45sIlPcJog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/taking-action\/attorney-general-sundays-child-predator-section-catches-allentown-man-attempting-to-meet-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-12-year-old-child\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOnxplleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmNnZuV1ZKaUI5THltNFhVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnO2KsdqXu2Q0ln2zwTSbWdKyebITaUkLhP_mQ0PgvH0I7jwKiUFhFUQ83xn_aem_VXMF6g33suLg45sIlPcJog\">news release<\/a> from the Pennsylvania Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"U7UNS2MSTZAKLMPQNZWFGEUBJI\">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\u2019s office posing as a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"36BNDEMOZVCOJKJXSW2AWZPBMM\">Diaz\u2019s attorney, <a href=\"https:\/\/kitaylegal.com\/attorney\/david-d-ritter\/?keyword=&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21493688871&amp;gbraid=0AAAAABw9tnyi7wTnUFLroJKxe4Cshq7jB&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA9OnJBhD-ARIsAPV51xMu-8Q7AlDI0ldRo7B0j7-KXGBO3Wq9xc4uIOrjODInFHn5mEFAnYUaAsStEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kitaylegal.com\/attorney\/david-d-ritter\/?keyword=&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21493688871&amp;gbraid=0AAAAABw9tnyi7wTnUFLroJKxe4Cshq7jB&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA9OnJBhD-ARIsAPV51xMu-8Q7AlDI0ldRo7B0j7-KXGBO3Wq9xc4uIOrjODInFHn5mEFAnYUaAsStEALw_wcB\">David Ritter<\/a> of Wyomissing, is on vacation, according to a member of his office staff. Ritter didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6ILCSPMA2FHHZIULM2INO55EHA\">Diaz\u2019s cellphone had online conversations about the meet-up that showed Diaz was aware of the \u201cchild\u2019s\u201d age, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MT3ZI2QNEZDF5H5C52EYEYC3ZA\">\u201cThis 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,\u201d Attorney General David Sunday said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YVI4VDZGDFFEBHUTH2T67MZ7NI\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZLCSG6MAUFA2LFSUB6S5EECDY4\">Diaz was arraigned Saturday and sent to Lehigh County Jail on $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Allentown man was charged Saturday with soliciting sex from a 12-year-old child, according to a news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-58716","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716","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=58716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}