you drove from west palm beach up here 3 1/2 to 4 hours, got chocolates, flowers, lotion and condoms because you were going to come up to have sex with her. is that pretty accurate? that s right. all right. bist is charged with two felonies, an attempted lewd act on a child and using a computer to solicit a child for sex. he could face up to five years in prison. he later pleaded not guilty. and because he s from nepal and not a u.s. citizen, his case is referred to the department of immigration and customs enforcement. scott, if you can hear me, you need to go to the door and let this guy in. back at the undercover house, our male decoy is greeting this 39-year-old waiter named anthony sorrentino. online, sorrentino calling himself italianlover37, has one of the shortest and most direct chats we ve ever seen with a decoy who tells him he s 14 years old. after just ten minutes
then he explains how the online chat started. what about seeing him online made you want to talk to him? just because he was new. i d never seen him online before. okay. how long did it take before you found out that he was 14 or 15? he told me right away. he told you right away. did that bother you? yeah, it did. it did? okay. yeah. but still you came here and you planned to have sex with him? i guess. honestly, i was just really turned on, and i didn t know what i was going to do. i probably you know, i mean, that s what i was thinking i guess. i don t know what i was going to do. sorrentino is charged with two felony counts, including attempting a lewd act upon a child. he also faces a misdemeanor charge for the marijuana the police found in his car. he later pleaded not guilty. [] [ camera shutter clicks ]
after just ten minutes sorrentino writes what are you looking for? i don t know, you? well, hot sex, what else. but soon sorrentino is suspicious. how do i know you re not a cop? duh, i don t know. how do i know you re not my dad setting me up? then he tells the boy he will perform oral sex on him and asks the boy to call him with directions to his house. a perverted justice decoy obliges. three stories tall, yellow house. and within 15 minutes, sorrentino is at the door. you can sit here if you want. just sit down. you want something to drink or anything? no, i m okay. you are a fast mover. please have a seat right there. please sit down. what are you doing here? relax. just calm down. tell me what s going on. nothing, i was just going to just going to what? talk to the kid. what were you going to talk about? i don t know.
i didn t know that. you didn t know that. no. now, the other problem for you is that i m chris hansen with dateline nbc, and we re doing a story on adults. [ bleep ]. who try to meet kids for sex online. have you seen our stories before? yeah. to catch a predator show? uh-huh. so you ve seen the show? uh-huh. now you re on it. if there s anything else you d like to say to us, we d like to hear it. if not, clearly you can go. i m just sorry. i just wished they didn t hear that. outside sorentino meets the flagler beach police. on the ground, turn around. turn around. hands at your side. out. out. during a search of his car, police find marijuana and condoms. later, sorrentino tells the investigator he has a mental illness. well, i m bipolar so i m on medication. for bipolar? okay, and have you taken all your medication today? yeah, i just take it at night.
run that by me again. she lured me, i mean. but under more questioning you drove from west palm beach up here 3 1/2 to 4 hours, got chocolates, flowers, lotion and condoms because you were going to come up to have sex with her. is that pretty accurate? that s right. all right. reporter: bist is charged with two felonies, an attempted lewd act on a child and using a computer to solicit a child for sex. he could face up to five years in prison. he later pleaded not guilty. and because he s from nepal and not a u.s. citizen, his case is referred to the department of immigration and customs enforcement. scott, if you can hear me, you need to go to the door and let this guy in. reporter: back at the undercover house, our male decoy is greeting this 39-year-old waiter named anthony sorrentino. online, sorrentino calling himself italianlover37, has one of the shortest and most direct chats we ve ever seen with a decoy who tells him he s 14 years old.