year in iraq. he s been chatting with a decoy posing as a 15-year-old, using the screen name high excitement, he sends the girl a link and for her to view pornographic pictures. and asks her, what do you think? then asks, do you like it? later, he makes plans to come over and go skinny dipping. just have a seat. if i don t put this in right away it gets all wrinkled. you can just take a seat. i ll be right there. i hate laundry. as he s walking in, he seems to spot our crew. i m leaving. and takes off. get on the ground! get on the ground, now! yes, sir. please do not move. while he never tells us his side of the story, later he speaks at length to investigators. you brought up the fact of going skinny dipping in the swimming pool with a 15-year-old girl. yes, sir. back at the house, here comes another soldier, an army staff sergeant who served a tour in iraq. 33-year-old rolando restocruz.
married and looking for fun says we will have to hide your real age. you remember typing that? you re nodding your head yes. okay. he doesn t deny a thing. investigators complete the interrogation and the soldier is taken to the county jail. look to your left for me. where officers take his mug shot, fingerprints. and place him in a cell. two days later rolando restocruz. he goes before a judge. mr. restocruz, you re charged with criminal attempt child molestation, it s a felony, carries a penalty of 1 to 20 years. and bail is set. all right. on the criminal attempt child molestation i ll set a $15,000 bond. he wasn t the only military man caught in our sting but this other soldier s memory isn t as clear. remember first lieutenant marshall gurtman made plans to meet a girl he thought was 15. honestly, i i couldn t remember her age. she only told me that one time. i knew she was probably underage by the way we were talking. bad judgment call and bad judgment c
remember, sex is a little nasty. i don t want your dad to find stuff in his bed. rolando, what should happen to you? i don t know. oh, my god. don t you see something wrong with a grown adult, a sergeant in the army, coming over to meet a 14-year-old girl? i will get counseling, sir, i swear. why should i believe that? i promise you. with my life. but what happens to him legally is not up to me. his sexual online chat with someone he thought was 14 is enough to get him charged with a felony. do you ever watch television? yes, sir. did you ever watch dateline nbc ? yes. with the cops and everything, i know. you ever see the to catch a predator show? yes. i m not a predator, sir. i swear. i m chris hansen with dateline nbc. we re doing a story. oh, my god. if there s anything else you d like to say, otherwise you re free to walk right out of this house.
i m milissa rehberger. here s what s happening. the u.s. is sending emergency civilian and military aid to the philippines to help deal with the damage left by the typhoon that killed at least 10,000 people. president obama says he and the first lady are deeply saddened by the devastation. and gas prices continue to drop. the latest lundberg survey says regular unleaded has fallen 15 cents in the last 3 weeks now at $3.22 a gallon. now back to to catch a predator. i m chief wayward. harris county sheriff s department. your name is rolando restocruz? yes, sir. rolando is the 33-year-old staff sergeant who kneeled in the kitchen and told a sob story. if he never intended to do anything wrong, how would he explain what investigators find in his truck? is all this stuff in the vehicle? yes. how about trojan, is that trojan condoms? yes, sir. you brought condoms with you? yes, sir. how about astroglide, is that some kind of sexual lubricant?
down further, married and looking for fun says, we will have to hide your real age. you remember typing that? you re nodding your head yes. okay. he doesn t deny a thing. investigators complete the interrogation and the soldier is taken to the county jail. look to your left for me. where officers take his mug shot, fingerprints. and place him in a cell. two days later rolando restocruz. he goes before a judge. mr. restocruz, you re charged with criminal attempt child molestation, it s a felony, carries a penalty of 1 to 20 years. and bail is set. all right. on the criminal attempt child molestation i ll set a $15,000 bond. he wasn t the only military man caught in our sting, but this other soldier s memory isn t as clear. remember first lieutenant marshall gurtman made plans to meet a girl he thought was 15. honestly, i i couldn t remember her age. she only told me that one time. i knew she was probably underage by the way we were talking.