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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Senior Facebook Employee Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting Sex From Underage Girl
2016-12-27
[GIZMODO] Dov Katz, the head of computer vision at Oculus VR, was arrested near Seattle on December 21 for allegedly soliciting sex from an underage girl. According to charging records, Katz allegedly attempted to pay $350 to have unprotected sex with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

Katz, 38, has been charged with attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor. According to the charging documents, Katz wasn’t actually texting a 15-year-old girl, but an undercover agent from the Tukwila Police Department. Katz, an Israeli citizen living in America, has since been released on $125,000 bail according to the King County jail website.

Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2014. According to a profile in The Times of Israel, Katz was "an an integral part of the team that developed the Oculus Rift headset."

According to charging documents initially posted by GeekWire, Katz allegedly asked the undercover officer, whom he met on the website Backpage, for an overnight girlfriend experience. Katz also allegedly asked the girl, "how many times do you think you’ll make me...?"

Katz was arrested with $600 in cash when he arrived at an Embassy Suites hotel just south of Seattle, after he allegedly arranged a meeting with someone he believed to be the underage girl. Following the arrest, Katz told officers his phone number, which matched the phone number that was texting the undercover officer.
The local prosecution (Non-Federal) charges and bail are meaningless. I'm sure he's back in Tel Aviv right now sipping a cold Goldstar.
Here are the charging documents:

Additional non-VR on this delightful story from Geekwire.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Try him fair, then hang him high. You do not do this to the girls at home, and even more so you do not do so when venturing abroad -- it's atrocious manners.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-12-27 19:46  

#7  you'd think he could get a virtual 15-yr-old. Still sick and twisted, but relatively harmless if he kept it to himself
Posted by: Frank G   2016-12-27 15:37  

#6  Yes, Arse Technicon, the Purge and other tech leftie web sites staying far away from this story. Fake news by omission...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-12-27 14:44  

#5  If I were in to soliciting SE from anyone, I would insist on a live video chat
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-12-27 10:43  

#4  Ah the internet... where men are men, women are men and all the underage girls are FBI agents.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-12-27 09:45  

#3  This will give all the forum posters of the tediously leftie tech community a break from bitching about Trump. They can bitch about how this perv's sex life is his own business, and it's Trump's fault he was arrested...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-12-27 09:44  

#2  Not really old Tov's fault. He accidentally VR'd himself to Mexico for the tryst.
Posted by: Hupaith Jurt1324   2016-12-27 08:41  

#1  Hat tip to Officer Sudel and the entire Tukwila Anti-Crime Team. You will be downloading all of the data and twisted 'friends' from his cellie, right ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-27 08:18  

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