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Australian rugby player travel for sex with 6yr old USA boy
Australian rugby player and geneticist, 33, pleads guilty to travelling to the US to have sex with a six-year-old boy after he was caught in a sting by undercover agents
- Michael Quinn travelled to the US to try and have sex with a six-year-old
- He attempted to pay undercover agents $350 to get access to a young boy
- The 33-year-old Melbourne man has pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles court
- The rugby player and IVF geneticist faces up to 13 years in a US prison
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Australian rugby union player Michael Quinn has entered a guilty plea after he was charged with travelling to the US to have sex with a six-year-old boy.
Quinn, 33, agreed to a plea deal in the US District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday that will see him spend between 10 to 13 years in a US prison.
The IVF geneticist, from Melbourne, was in the US on a vacation to play in a rugby tournament when he was caught in a sting where he paid an undercover agent posing as a pimp $US260 ($A347) to have sex with a six-year-old.
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Australian IVF geneticist Michael Quinn has entered a guilty plea after he was charged with travelling to the US to have sex with a six-year-old boy
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An undercover agent was perusing a social networking site catering to online groups who 'expressed their sexual interest in children' when he found a post from Quinn, who went by 'Mick' on the site.
Quinn stated on the site he was travelling from Australia to LA.
The agent started a conversation with Quinn and the Australian told how he was 'looking for sex with children' and while 'he liked both boys and girls, his favourite were boys, aged 5-10'.
'Would love to share one with you mate,' Quinn allegedly told the agent.
The agent set up a sting.
Two days after Quinn landed in Los Angeles and after he settled in with some team-mates at a Hollywood Hills home they had rented, Quinn snuck away.
He caught an Uber to the hotel where the undercover agent had promised a child sex party with 'like-minded men'.
When Quinn arrived, the hotel room was prepped for the 'party', with the Cartoon Network on the TV and Toy Story-themed cupcakes to eat.
Quinn brought a camera and a monopod to record the experience.
After about 10 minutes in the room and a beer, an agent posing as a pimp turned up and announced: 'Money time.'
'Quinn, clearly remembering the previous discussions where he had been told the price would be $US250 to sodomise the boy for approximately an hour, he pulled out his money and gave the pimp $US260,' ICE special agent Aaron McClellan wrote in the criminal complaint.
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Mr Quinn, who was in the US with his rugby union team, went to a beachside Los Angeles hotel on May 21 under the impression a six-year-old boy would be delivered to him for sex
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'After Quinn paid the pimp, law enforcement came into the room and arrested everyone.'
Quinn was originally charged with attempted sex trafficking of a minor, which carries a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life without parole, but that was dropped in the plea deal.
The charge he pleaded guilty to - travelling to the US for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor - carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
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