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Article: Internet Killer Pleads to Sex Charges
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- April 17, 2003
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Dateline: BRIDGEPORT, Conn.
A man convicted of state manslaughter charges for strangling a 13-
year-old girl he met on the Internet pleaded guilty Thursday to federal
charges of crossing state lines to have sex with the child.
Saul Dos Reis, 25, admitted traveling from New York to Danbury to
meet the girl and also pleaded guilty to making a similar trip in
1998 to have sex with a 15-year-old girl he met online.
Authorities say Dos Reis strangled Christina Long on May 17, 2002,
while the two were having sex in his car after he picked up the sixth-
grader at a Danbury mall. Police said Dos Reis met her in an Internet
chat room.
The case led to a push in Congress for a ...