BROOKLYN – A registered sex offender was arrested for allegedly using an Internet chat room to arrange a date with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl, but who was actually a Detective Investigator with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
               
James Godwin, 59, a resident of Staten Island, is charged with engaging in three sexually explicit chats with the undercover detective, between January and today. In those chats, Godwin, a registered sex offender, with a previous conviction for possessing child pornography, is charged with describing detailed sexual acts he wanted to engage in with the undercover detective, whom he believed was a 13-year-old girl. The defendant is charged with arranging to meet the undercover, at an address in Brooklyn, where he believed she lived. When he was arrested, by Kings County Detective Investigators, he had a package of condoms, which the charges indicate he told the undercover officer that he would bring, when she told him she was afraid of getting pregnant.

Godwin is charged with Attempted Rape in the Second Degree, Attempted Criminal Sexual Act in the Second Degree, and Three Counts of Attempted Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the First Degree.

“It is my duty to see that sexual predators and perverts who troll the internet looking to exploit children will be brought to justice,” said Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes. “Thankfully my Detective Investigators stopped Godwin’s illicit plot.”