TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man who sought to perform sex acts with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl is now headed to prison.
Robert Elmi received a three-year sentence Friday and must register as a sex offender. The 64-year-old Gilette man had pleaded guilty in January to luring.
Authorities say Elmi placed an online ad soliciting a relationship with a younger female. An undercover state police detective responded, posing as a girl and indicating to Elmi that she was 13.
Elmi communicated with the “girl” for several weeks via text and email, ultimately arranging to meet her in November at a Union County diner where he was arrested. He had told the “girl” he would take her back to his apartment, where they would perform sex acts on each other.
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