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Sex crime suspect free on bond

By LEE WILLIAMS
lwilliams@TheCitizenNews.com

A 27-year-old Alpharetta man who police say tried to lure a “Peachtree City teen” he met in an Internet chatroom away to film pornographic movies was released Saturday after posting a $110,100 bond.

Devanshu More, of Morningpark Circle, was arrested about 11 a.m. Thursday at a Peachtree City McDonald’s on charges of enticing a child for indecent purposes, computer pornography and Child Exploitation Act of 1999.

According to Peachtree City police, More met whom he believed to be a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chatroom and asked her to film an X-rated movie with him. He met the so-called teen face-to-face and continued to express his interests, police said.

“More arranged for a meeting in Peachtree City where he actually made contact with an undercover officer,” Peachtree City police Chief James Murray said. “During this meeting, he further discussed his plans to continue his encounters with the juvenile and film pornographic movies.”

Murray said Thursday’s sting was made in conjunction with agents from the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Similar to the FBI’s Innocent Images Task Force that targets pedophiles who prey on children on the Internet, the Peachtree City Police Department has implemented a program called the Online Protection of Children, which works to keep the community safe from Internet predators.

“Our goal is to protect children who cannot protect themselves and we are very committed to that,” Murray said.

Since the program began two years ago, Murray said the department has arrested four suspects including a mentor for middle-school children. The department has initiated numerous cases with individuals out of the jurisdiction, which they have turned over to other law enforcement agencies. The department also has numerous other cases in the works, he said.

Murray said all of those arrested have several distinct similarities.

“All of these people are married and well-educated,” Murray said. Thursday’s suspect was not a citizen. He was in the United States on a student visa from India. He was married and he had just completed his graduate studies at a graduate school in Atlanta, Murray indicated.

Murray knows Thursday’s work was an achievement, but more work lies ahead. Keeping children safe from Internet predators is an around-the-clock job.

“It’s like drug smuggling. You only get 1 percent of the drug smugglers,” Murray said. “These people, they steal our children’s innocence. Just by talking with them and having a sexual conversation with a 13- or 14-year-old, they steal their innocence.”

But Murray’s department won’t give up. He’ll still keep fighting to rid the community of Internet predators one at a time.

“I want them to know if they realize the people they are talking to are from Peachtree City, they should go ahead and hang up. They should go away, because we will arrest them,” Murray said.