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 asks 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. come on in.
online for more than three weeks, typing well over 50 pages of chat log, saying things to a girl he thought was 14 like, 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. did you ever watch television? yes, sir. did you ever watch dateline nbc ? yes. 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. sir, pl
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 call to keep talking to her.
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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 call to keep talking to her. first lieutenants don t make bad judgment calls. not always. not always. he insists he had no plans for sex with the young teen. honestly, no, i would never let myself do that. you let yourself internet chat with a 15-year-old. yes, sir, i know.