Investigation reveals perpetrator is middle coach, teacher in Louisville
FRANKFORT, KY. – A 37-year-old Louisville man has been arrested and charged with allegedly seeking sex with a minor, Attorney General Andy Beshear announced Thursday.
Brandon Lee Dietz was arrested Nov. 21 when he traveled to a location in Louisville to have sex with a person he believed to be a minor. It’s alleged that Dietz requested the person he believed to be a minor send him sexual images over the internet before discussing meeting to perform sex acts.
A day after the online discussions, Beshear’s Cyber Crimes Unit intercepted Dietz as he traveled to meet the person he believed to be a minor. Cyber investigators were assisted by the Jeffersontown Police Department and the United States Secret Service in the case.
Dietz was charged with one count of seeking sex with a minor online, a Class D felony. He is currently housed in Louisville Metro Corrections with a $25,000 cash bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 23.
During the course of the arrest, cyber investigators learned Dietz is a girls softball coach in Louisville as well as a full-time middle school teacher with Jefferson County Public Schools.
“I appreciate the work of our cyber investigators and local and federal law enforcement officers who worked on this investigation,” Beshear said. “Removing from the streets those who seek to exploit and abuse our children is a top priority for my office, and for law enforcement agencies throughout the Commonwealth.”
Beshear’s cyber investigators focus on arresting predators who seek to harm children in Kentucky communities and on the internet.
Over the past two and half years, the number of arrests, indictments and convictions by Beshear’s cyber investigators has reached historic levels, totaling more than 150.
Beshear said that Kentuckians have a moral and legal duty to report any instance of child abuse to local law enforcement or to Kentucky’s Child Abuse hotline at 877-597-2331 or 877-KYSAFE1.
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