Can’t use Internet on computer, cellphone or other device

A McDonough man charged with using the Internet to try and arrange sex with a girl he thought was 14 years old has been granted bond.

Fayette County Magistrate Charles R. Floyd Jr. set a $50,000 bond for Christopher Todd Walker, 33, who actually was chatting online with an undercover Peachtree City police officer, police said.

Floyd also required that Walker have no access to the Internet through any device whether a computer or cell phone, a restriction that’s typical for persons charged as Walker is — with violating the state’s computer pornography and child exploitation act.

Police said Walker engaged in “conversations of an extremely illicit sexual nature” when chatting online with the undercover officer.

Walker, who is married and has a 3-year-old child, was an employee of Chick-fil-A and managed a store in downtown Atlanta, police said.

Walker is the 20th person arrested in the police department’s ongoing undercover Internet sting, aimed at outing online predators who try to take advantage of children.

In some similar cases the suspects have driven to Peachtree City after arranging what they thought was a “hook-up” with a young girl. Instead, they were arrested on the spot.

Although other suspects have not made arrangements to meet the undercover officer in Peachtree City, they have been prosecuted in Fayette County Superior Court because one part of the online conversation took place in Fayette County. One such defendant transmitted photos of his genitalia while chatting with the undercover officer.

Police urge parents to keep a close eye on their children's Internet activity. Suggestions include keeping the computer in a common area of the home instead of a bedroom. Some parents have installed special software to track their kids activity online.

Other parents require their children to provide their log-in screen names and passwords to all the sites they visit so the parents can check up on what is going on.

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