predators. am i one? are you? you know, it s against the law. oh. oh? yeah, yeah. no, no. i mean, it s bad. it s time to wrap up this interview and make room for our next visitor. well, there s something i gotta tell you. i m chris hansen with dateline nbc. [ bleep ]. cover my face. we asked him to go in the house and out the front door so this next man can come in through the garage. as our new arrival makes his way into the backyard, police arrest the first man in the front. the police are so quiet that this 33-year-old has no idea what s going on. his name is fernando bernal. he does computer support at a college. he s here to meet a girl who told him she was 13. hey! oh, you brought me something. yeah.
entire chat log of his conversation with the decoy. so you already had sex, you ask her. what is this? what is this? you say you have condoms. can you bring? okay. do you have condoms in your car? no. why what s up here? well because i m chris hansen with dateline nbc and doing a story on men who try to meet teens online for sex. see you later. have a nice day. just as i m telling him that he s walked into a dateline investigation, the man in the truck drives away and is arrested down the street. put your hands up! the 20-year-old leave it is backyard and is met by police on the driveway. drop what s in your hands. drop it! both men end up here at the booking station where their vehicles are searched and their pictures taken. right here. look at right here. hennissey 1436 is brought in for questioning. he says he had no intention of having sex. but then, he changes his story. when you left san francisco, how old did you believe she was
no. all right. let s just do what we re gonna do. what do you mean? aren t you going to arrest me? i m not gonna arrest you. then who are you? i ll get to that in a minute. i have a few more questions for you. you get into graphic detail about what you want to do with this boy sexually. because that s what he wanted and told me. so it s his fault? not really. no. i m taking full blame for whatever happened. and although he seems to take full blame, he insists he didn t believe the boy, kevin, was really 13. was there a conversation about you look so much older? no. but i did tell him that i think something does not seem right. you also gave him a laundry list of sexual acts that you wanted to engage with him in. now you gonna tell me who you are now? yes. i m chris hansen with dateline nbc and we re doing a story on adults who try to meet teens on the internet. no. now, if there s anything else you d like to tell us, we d be glad to hear it. thank yo
that i can give you. and this is it. that i m chris hansen with dateline nbc. and we re doing a story on adults who solicit minors on-line for sex. i have nothing else to say, except, world, please forgive me. it was stupid. he makes his way out of the backyard through the garage where police are waiting to arrest him. turn around. put your hands behind your back. he s taken away in an unmarked car and brought in for questioning. why did you come to the house today? i was bored at home. yeah? what was some of the thing that is you discussed? oral sex. oral sex. anything else? think that was it, maybe a massage. did you send any photos to this person? of my private parts. i m digging myself a hole, aren t i? he insists that he would not have had sex with a 13-year-old. i [ expletive ] up my marriage. i [ expletive ] up my life.
images, these images of you, your genitals to a 13-year-old girl. i never meant any harm at this point, sir. you would have had sex with this girl if the opportunity arose? no. i probably wouldn t because no. i was thinking on the way here i d maybe i just need to talk, you know. well, you were talking online here. yeah. you tell her that you ll teach her various sex acts. you. i m i m sorry. why would you risk so much for this one time encounter? i don t even understand it myself, sir. do you ever watch dateline nbc ? does this all seem a little familiar to you? yeah. i m chris hansen with dateline nbc. and we re doing a story on adults who try to meet teens online. is this going to be aired? he s reluctant to leave, concerned about appearing on national television. i m a good person. if you guys don t believe it. i really do believe god is going to help me through this.