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Indian arrested in US for trapping girls on Net

US police have arrested five men including an Indian Engineer named Nityanand Gopalika, all from western and central Pennsylvania, on charges of using Internet for sexually propositioning young girls, says media reports. It is possibly the first such case involving an Indian in the US.

The accused were said to be trapped when they were sexually soliciting undercover agents from Pennsylvania Attorney General's Child Predator Unit who were using the online profiles of young girls, in the belief that they were communicating to 13- and 14-year old girls.

The Attorney General Tom Corbett identified the accused as Lahbib Hannoune, 30, Joseph Duane Tyger, 46, Dominic J. Galliani, 44, and Harlan Gene King, 26.

Corbett said Gopalika, 30, on a work visa in the US, along with the co-defendants allegedly used an Internet chat room to approach girls from the Pittsburgh area. The criminal complaint filed by the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit said that Gopalika engaged in a series of chats over several days questioning the girl about her sexual experience and describing the sex acts he wished to engage in.

Tyger, Gopalika and King were reportedly arrested on July 1 when they arrived at preplanned meeting locations near Pittsburgh, to allegedly meet and have sex with the young girls.

The agents seized two laptop computers, a digital camera, a cell phone allegedly containing a partially completed text message to the "child," about the directions to the meeting location and a bag of condoms from Gopalika's vehicle.

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