David Demers Sentenced
David Demers, 32, of Orlando, Florida busted in a “”To Catch a Predator” internet sex sting conducted in Flagler Beach, FL has has pleaded no contest to computer pornography and other charges.
Demers has been sentenced to 25 months in prison for attempted lewd or lascivious battery, computer pornography and child exploitation.
Reportedly Demers chatted online and sent a picture of his genitals to someone he thought was younger than 16 and then traveled to the house in Flagler Beach on December 9th to have sex with this person.
Demers was one of 21 men, including three local residents and a former Alabama police officer, accused of traveling to a beachside house in hopes of having sex with what they thought were boys or girls they met over the Internet.
Demers is the first of the group ’stung’ by the Oregon-based group Perverted Justice in the Flagler Beach sex sting, to be found guilty. The sting was taped by the NBC program “To Catch a Predator”, which paid the Pervert Justice group to perform the sting.
Other local men snared in the same internet sex sting, including Samuel Harrison, 32, of Flagler Beach, William Roach, 32, of South Daytona, Anthony Sorrentino, 40, of Bunnell and Todd Spikes, 42, of DeFuniak Springs, who was fired from the Florala, Alabama Police Department after his arrest, will go to trial within the next few weeks.
Reference:
1st man sentenced in ‘Dateline’ sting (9/01/07)