Stockton police say 70-year Keyes Kelly had been talking to undercover officers for two months, after the vice unit posted ads on Craigslist posing as a 13-year-old girl.
The
San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office says Kelly, a Stockton
music professor, husband and grandfather responded to one of those ads.
The
criminal complaint accuses Kelly of soliciting sex online from someone
he believed was a 13-year-old girl. He allegedly set up a meeting with
"her" at a Lowe's in Stockton, the station reported.
Prosecutors say instead of finding a teen, he found the Stockton Police Department.
"If
the allegations are true, then good for the police department," said
Kelly's neighbor, Mike Souza. "None of my children went there. But the
parents of children who went there should speak to their children I
would think."
The DA's office says Kelly has taught children for
decades and has a prior conviction from three decades ago for lewd acts
with a child. Kelly fought and had the conviction expunged from his
record in 1989, when laws were more lax with misdemeanor sex offenses,
CBS Sacramento reported.
"We have people out there who are lurking
for and actively trying to persuade our children to have sex with them,
and this sting operation is to stop that type of behavior," said deputy
district attorney Elton Grau.
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