A man who investigators say tried to lure a 15-year-old to his “dungeon room” for sex was arrested as part of a Seattle police sting.
The suspect, Stanley Scott Sadler, has a previous conviction for sexual exploitation of a 14-year-old.
Police said Salder, 56, posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a “young tight bodied” woman, and a police detective responded posing as a 15-year-old. The detective did not know the man behind the ad was Sadler until further in the investigation, police said.
“The conversations via email were of graphic sexual nature, detailing the sex acts he was planning on doing to the 15-year-old minor female child in exchange for the $150,” the detective wrote in a probable cause document.
Sadler sent pictures and e-mails detailing the kind of sex acts he was planning on doing that included bondage and torture, police said. He also sent pictures of his dungeon room where he wanted to take the girl, according to court documents.
Police said they used an undercover woman officer to lure Sadler on the phone and arrested him at a Federal Way mall.
Sadler said he only arrived at the location to check the girl’s identification. Police took $150, his cellphone and a cuff key as evidence.
In 2004, Sadler was arrested at his Fircrest home and accused of keeping a 14-year-old girl tied up there for two weeks. Authorities say he raped her repeatedly, and when he would leave the house, he'd chain her to a bed.
However in 2008, the case against Sadler was thrown out because a court of appeals found that the trial court violated his constitutional right to an open and public trial. He was convicted of sexual exploitation but not the rape charge.
Sadler is being held on $250,000 bail after a Monday afternoon bail hearing where a judge called him a “danger to the community.”
The detective has arrested more than 45 people using Craigslist ads leading to an agreement for sex with a 15-year-old girl. Seattle police also have consulted other departments on the tactics that can catch sexual predators.
Read reporter Amy Clancy's earlier story about the Seattle-area men charged in the online teen sex sting.
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