A Hilliards man will spend 3 to 6 months in jail for arranging a rendezvous with an undercover police officer he believed to be a girl he'd met on the Internet.

"I'm truly sorry for the things Idid and the decisions Imade," 37-year-old Robert Mark Waldroup said to Butler County Judge William Shaffer on Friday. " Irealize I caused a lot of damage to my family."

Waldroup, according to court records, approached an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl in an Internet romance chat room. Waldroup agreed to "hook up"with the teen in Cranberry Township, where, instead, he was arrested.

In court, Waldroup's defense attorney Stephen Misko of Butler said his client was "not seeking intercourse with the teen."

Waldroup in August pleaded guilty to unlawful contact with a minor, attempted unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility.

Amember of the state's Sexual Offender's Assessment Board evaluated Waldroup, a father of two, and determined he is not a sexually violent predator.

John Neyman, a pastor, testified that Waldroup already has voluntarily spent 9 months in a treatment program addressing the issues that prompted him to commit the crime.

In addition to the prison time, Waldroup was ordered to spend 6Z\x years on probation, to do 50 hours of community service and to forfeit his computer and computer camera to the state attorney general.

Waldroup, who was given until Dec. 26 to report to prison, also must register his whereabouts with the state police for the next decade.

William Caye, an attorney with the state attorney general's office, said he was not surprised by the sentence.

"All of these crimes are fact-specific,"Caye said. "This was an appropriate sentence within the state guidelines and consistent with what other courts have done."