A Connecticut state police dispatcher who was charged with enticing a minor chatted with a 15-year-old boy on Facebook for months and promised to set up a sexual encounter with a prostitute for him, according to court documents.
Middletown police arrested 48-year-old Jeffrey Norton after a more than a month-long investigation.
According to an arrest warrant application, police said Norton began chatting with the teen in July 2015 and continued the online conversations until January. The teen's parents discovered the conversations and contacted police.
Police said Norton discussed several sexual topic with the teen and tried to arrange a meeting between the boy and a 42-year-old prostitute that Norton knew, the documents stated.
In another conversation, Norton allegedly urged the teen to have sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend and that the two could come to Norton's Waterbury apartment to have sex, according to the court documents.
Norton is a state police dispatcher at Troop I in Bethany and has worked for state police since 2004. He has been placed on administrative leave, according to Trooper Kelly Grant.
According to the court documents, Norton also sent the teen a video of himself having sex with the prostitute.
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When he was interviewed by police in January, Norton allegedly admitted to chatting with the boy and said he was only trying to give the teen relationship and sex advice, police said.
He has been charged with enticing a minor and risk of injury and was scheduled to be in court on March 16, but he did not appear.
The case was continued until April 15.
