Daniel Penn - Repeat Sex Offender - Internet Predator

Awaiting a 2007 trial on charges of using the Internet to solicit children for sex, Daniel Bryan Penn couldn't help himself, authorities said.

The 28-year-old, who used to live near Boynton Beach, logged onto his computer and, on Jan. 29, 2007, began a relationship with a Florida Attorney General's Office investigator who was posing as a 13-year-old girl from Jacksonville, according to an arrest affidavit made public this morning.

In a handful of conversations, Penn discussed having sex with the girl, the affidavit said.

His online advances continued until May 2007, when he was convicted of sending harmful material to minors via the Internet. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

The next day, the state investigator searched Penn's house and seized his computer.

Penn was imprisoned at Holmes Correctional Institution until March of this year, when he was released. He moved to Indiana, where the investigator found him when he sought to charge him in the 2007 exchanges.

Penn was arrested on solicitation charges and eventually brought to the Palm Beach County Jail. This morning he appeared before a judge, who ordered him held in lieu of $150,000 bail.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte