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	Former Rockville Rabbi Charged in Child Sex Sting WJZ [Rockville MD] May 19, 2006 http://wjz.com/local/local_story_139180602.html A rabbi was charged with traveling across state lines to engage in sex acts with a 13-year-old boy after being caught in a nationally televised sting operation. David Kaye, 56, of Rockville, Md., made an initial appearance Friday in U.S. District Court on charges of coercion and enticement and travel with intent to engage in illegal sexual contact with a minor. He was detained pending a detention hearing Monday. Kaye did not speak during Friday's hearing and his lawyer declined comment. Kaye resigned from his position as vice president of Rockville-based PANIM: the Institute for Jewish Leaders and Values, in the wake of the sting. In November, NBC's "Dateline" program ran a sting operation in northern Virginia in conjunction with an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice. Kaye was one of 19 people who showed up at a Herndon, Va., home after chatting online with individuals they believed to be underage boys and girls. Prosecutors say Kaye used an Internet chat room to entice what he thought was a 13-year-old boy into meeting him and engaging in illegal sexual activity. Kaye traveled from Rockville to Herndon on Aug. 17 to meet the boy, but when he showed up at the home he was confronted by a television reporter and camera crew. Kaye is the second person charged by federal prosecutors in Alexandria in connection with the Perverted Justice sting. Joseph J. Wunderler, 29, an Army sergeant at Fort Belvoir, pleaded guilty in April to attempted enticement. Wunderler admitted that he engaged in multiple sexually explicit chats online with a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl, and traveled to the same Herndon home and was confronted by the same television reporter and camera crew that confronted Kaye. Wunderler will be sentenced in July. Xavier Von Erck, founder of the Perverted Justice Web site, said he was particularly pleased with Kaye's arrest, calling him "one of the most arrogant people we have come across." Von Erck said Perverted Justice stings have resulted in 58 convictions in 26 states.
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