Italian man held for trying to seduce teen

Gallarate (Italy) April 11 (IANS/AKI) A 40-year-old man was arrested in northern Italy on Monday for allegedly trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into prostitution after meeting her in an Internet chatroom and sending her videos of him having sex.

The man a resident of the city of Gallarate where the girl also lives had allegedly offered her phone top-ups and cash in return for sex sending her increasingly insistent messages and explicit videos.

The man was arrested in a shopping-centre carpark in Gallarate when he turned up for meeting with the schoolgirl actually set up by police who had been monitoring her social media profile.

The man s arrest came after an investigation that began when the girl and her father reported him to police.

The suspect is a married flight-attendant with children local paper Varese News reported on its website.

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