I'm shocked and dismayed!

April 07, 2009  from

The Advocate  Focus on the Family Employee Snared in Online Sex Sting  Click the byline to view more stories by this author.

By Julie Bolcer

Authorities in Colorado say they have apprehended a Focus on the Family employee suspected of arranging to have sex with an underage girl he met online.
The suspect, Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42, began chatting online Thursday with someone who told him she was a girl younger than 15. The contact was actually an undercover female police officer.
Ovalle, a resident of Colorado Springs, works for a Spanish-speaking arm of Focus on the Family and narrates Scripture for CDs, according to the Denver Post.
During the first online exchange, according to an affidavit filed with the Jefferson Country District Attorney’s Office, Ovalle asked the contact, “Do you like older guys?” and “Would you like to meet me?”
The next day, says the affidavit, Ovalle logged on to find the officer portraying the child and told her he was home and “horny.” He confirmed that her mother was working, and after asking for her phone number and address, he asked her to tell him what she liked when having sex. He described his preferences in graphic detail.
Ovalle was arrested on Friday when he appeared for the rendezvous. He is scheduled to be formally charged on Thursday with two felony counts of criminal attempt of sexual assault on a minor and Internet luring of a child. He is being held in the Jefferson County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.

"We're shocked," said Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman for Focus on the Family.