Lehigh U. official charged with seeking mom-and-child sex

From his office computer at Lehigh University, where he's a high-ranking administrator, Steven James Devlin spent two months trying to entice a mother into a secret lifestyle of sex with moms and their young daughters, authorities say.

But the ''mother'' was actually an undercover detective conducting an online sting. Late Tuesday, the day after arranging to meet her, Devlin was nabbed in a Delaware County parking lot, according to an arrest affidavit.

Devlin, 49, of Bryn Mawr, Delaware County, was arraigned Wednesday and jailed in the county prison under $250,000 bail on charges he used the Internet to seek sex with underage girls. Read more