Board of Ed Member Arrested

Officials said he traveled ot Florida to have sex with someone he thought was a minor.

A member of the Windsor Board of Education was arrested in Florida, accused of traveling to Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.

Christopher Watts, a 38-year-old husband and father, was arrested in Florida on Thursday night and charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity via the Internet.

Police said he connected with an undercover officer posing as the father of a 14-year-old girl in a chatroom and thought he was arranging to have sex with the teen.

Using the screen name "luvpervymoms," Watts responded to a post in a chat room that said "dad has daughter" and told the undercover officer that it was a “big fantasy” of his to have sex with a 14 year-old, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The undercover officer typed that he "shared his daughter with a select group of friends" and Watts made arrangements to travel to Florida for sex with the girl, the criminal complaint states.

"(I) gotta go down there (Florida) for a couple days to find a new truck that hasn't been killed by road salt" and "love to get into some fun while there," Watts typed, according to the complaint.

At one point, Watts sent a photo of himself and investigators said it matched the photo of the Watts on the Web site of his company, Precision Marketing LLC. 

Watts traveled to Brevard County, Florida, rented a silver Mustang convertible and was arrested at his hotel, police said.

Watts told officials that he had a pattern of viewing videos and images of children in sexual acts, the would delete them from his computer and "backup" drives, officials said.

He said he canceled an account he used in chatrooms before traveling to Florida, believes he has a good life, a family and a child and does not want to ruin it, so he decided to stop, according to court documents.

He went on to say he has a "hyper-sexual problem" and tries "to be good" but keeps "repeating old patterns. ... I just want to do what's right and stop hurting myself & my family," according to the court records.

"(T)his sounds terrible but I'm on the Board of Education in my town, again no interaction with children." Watts said, according to police.

Federal authorities said he was arrested on Thursday night after arriving in Orlando.

He was making his first court appearance Friday and Friday, Windsor police were at his house.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating.

According to Watts’ biography on the Windsor Education Foundation Web site, he was elected to the board of education in 2005, had a career in radio, working as an editor for the Associated Press in Washington DC, and also worked as a press secretary for the House Democrats in Hartford.

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