US father hunting online for minor girls got hooked by a boy fishing for paedophiles


A Fort Pierce federal court judge sentenced Spiegel to 10 years on June 23 after his conviction on a charge of attempted online enticement of a minor. — Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash

Zachary Spiegel, a 38-year-old Jensen Beach husband and father of two, isn’t the first man to earn his prison sentence by sending inappropriate pictures and requests to meet for sex to an underage girl with whom he connected on social media.

But Spiegel will be one of the few in federal prison who got snared by a 16-year-old amateur undercover online detective.

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