Boulder dentist arrested in Florida as suspect in DHS child sex sting

By Austen Erblat | CBS Colorado

A Colorado dentist is facing charges of trying to entice a mother and her underaged daughter into having unlawful sex, federal prosecutors say.

Jason Atha, a dentist who practiced in Boulder, is accused of speaking to a woman to arrange to have sex with her and her 9-year-old daughter. The person he was allegedly talking to was an undercover federal agent and he was arrested in West Palm Beach after flying there last week.

Atha, 49, didn’t know he was messaging with an undercover Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Investigations agent on a chatroom centered around “taboo” sex acts, according to a 27-page indictment. In those messages, Atha allegedly talked to the agent who he thought was a single mom about having sex with her and her daughter.

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