Among the men arrested in the Polk County sex sting was a 31-year-old registered sex offender from Brooksville.
According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Wilson Silva was among those arrested. Silva has been registered since 2001 in Hernando County.
Detectives said Silva responded to a fictitious ad posted on Craigslist by an undercover Mount Dora Police detective posing as the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl. He offered to come to the undercover location to teach the girl how to have fun with sex.
From Friday, June 1st, through Sunday, June 10th, 2012, a total of 38 adult males were arrested and charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex and other crimes during Operation Cyber Child, an extensive undercover operation conducted by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, as the Central Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Coordinator.