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Police: Allentown Man Arranged To Have Sex With Victim He Believed Was 8-Year-Old Girl

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (CBS) – An Allentown man is under arrest after attempting to set up a sexual encounter online with a juvenile he believed to be eight years old.

Thirty-year-old Ramy Ahmed, of Allentown, reportedly engaged in online conversations with an undercover agent posing as the father of an eight-year-old girl he had expressed interest in having sex with.

Ahmed also allegedly sent images of child pornography to the undercover agent, and on April 2nd, 2013, Ahmed drove from Allentown to New Jersey for what he believed was a sexual encounter with the child.

Ahmed is now charged with the transportation of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor, and traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

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