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Kevin Gaines

WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware court bailiff is now Delaware State prisoner after an undercover police operation allegedly caught him red handed.

The Delaware Child Predator Task Force reports that the led an undercover online operation where an undercover detective posed as a 14-year-old girl. During the operation police say that Kevin Gaines, 40, of Wilmington, tried to meet the girl in person and stated that he wanted to have sex with her, he also exposed himself and masturbated during webcam sessions.

Police executed a search warrant on Gaines home, and seized a laptop computer.He was arrested, at the New Castle Court house where he was working as a court bailiff, on five counts of attempted online sexual solicitation of a child, and two counts of obscenity. Gaines is being held at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center on $42,500 bond.

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