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. yeah. how are you? fine. and you? good. come on back. and you can set it down on the bar. you can online he calls himself “a latino man559.” six minutes
who comes clean. like a drug. it was definite lay addiction. and the marine sniper who comes armed. i didn t listen to my sixth sense that kept me alive in iraq and i didn t do that here. what niece store for all of these men? you are going to jail today. chris hanssen with a dateline net crime, to catch a predator. thank you for joining us. now we move across the country to northern california to the town of petaluma where two high-profile cases made national headlines. when our hidden cameras find there, again, we want to warn you that this is explicit. here s chris hanssen. hey! you made it. hey, come on back. you made it. hey! you re here. hey. this girl appears to be home alone and looking for company. come on in. she keeps waving men into the garage. come on in. and they keep following her. come on back. all the way to the backyard.
why d you come here today? it was stupid. i should have known better. she s a baby. he says he wasn t really going to do anything with her but his chat log seems to say otherwise. you say that you re a pretty normal, horny, old man. and i would love to make wild, passionate love to you. oh god. i m trying to understand why you thought it was a good idea to come over here to visit a 13-year-old girl. i don t know. i don t know. i wasn t thinking. but you sent this picture, right? yes. and that s you? yes. it s not something i would have normally done. i should have known better. he seems to think i m a cop and even tries bargain with me. i know what the law says. but i m really hoping far warning. so you think you should just get a warning? i m begging. i m begging please. well, there s one warning that i can give you. that i m chris hansen with dateline nbc. and we re doing a story on
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. what he doesn t seem to know as he walks out of the backyard is that around the corner he has an even bigger problem than his appearance on television.
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 based on the information that you had?