BEL AIR, Md. — Teamed up with a former network news correspondent known for taking down sexual predators, investigators in Harford County set up a monthlong sting and found no shortage of takers.

“We had one of our investigators posing as a 14-year-old girl doing something as innocent as seeking, offering babysitting services and she had many, many men contact her,” said Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, “Not one was interested in a babysitter. They were all sexually suggestive, coming on to her and trying to make these arrangements to meet up.”

Watch as investigators in Harford County went undercover to as minors to make arrests Nine arrested in child sex sting

Police say Charles Robert Schmidt fell for the bait.

“72 years old from Cecil County, and has a… as I understand it… a grandchild, I b

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