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- A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex.
Frank Mccorkle Lombard, the school’s associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday, June 24 after an Internet sting, according to the FBI’s Washington field office and the city’s police department.
A confidential informant claimed to have seen Lombard molest a young African-American child via online chats on multiple occasions, reports CBS affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
According to an affidavit by District of Columbia Police Detective Timothy Palchak, the unidentified informant facing charges in a separate child sex case led authorities to Lombard.
Authorities said that Lombard tried to persuade a person — who he did not know was a police officer — to travel to North Carolina to have sex with a child.
The detective’s affidavit charges Lombard said in an online chat that he had sexually molested the boy. The court papers say Lombard also invited the undercover detective to North Carolina to have sex with the young boy and even suggested which hotel he should use.
