Balloon Entertainer Traveled To Florida For Sex With A 14-Year-Old Boy

A Baltimore balloon entertainer faces up to 10 years in prison after signing a plea agreement in which he admitted traveling to Lake County for sex with a 14-year-old boy he found through an Internet personal ad.

A Lake sheriff's detective, part of an operation probing the Internet for sexual stalkers of children, placed the ad on Craigslist in the Orlando-area "Men Seeking Men" section. It was labeled "bored nephew."

In the agreement, filed in federal court in Orlando, Howard Scott Kalin, 48, a lawyer and owner of Funhouse Entertainment Agency in Baltimore, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. He is scheduled to appear Sept. 14 before Chief Judge Anne C.Conway.

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