SLIPPERY ROCK — A Prospect man faces trial on charges he used the Internet to solicit sex from two undercover agents he thought were 13- and 14-year-old girls.

Stanley Armond Miller Jr., 37, even sent sexually explicit webcam videos of himself during the online encounters, according to Jessica Eger, a special agent for the state attorney general's office.

Eger along with Lisa Ceh, another state agent, offered at times graphic testimony Tuesday at Miller's preliminary hearing in the case.

But Miller's attorney, public defender Kerry Starr, challenged the prosecution's evidence, suggesting her client did not believe he was communicating with children.

Actually, Starr said, the defendant was "role playing," and fantasizing he was chatting with women posing as girls.

District Judge Clifford Woessner ordered Miller held for court on two counts each of unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communication facility and attempt to commit obscene or sexual performances.

Miller, a truck driver, remains in the Butler County Prison on $50,000 bond.

The attorney general's Child Predator Unit arrested Miller on Jan. 9 following its sex sting investigation that began in June.

Miller, according to court documents, allegedly used Internet chat rooms and instant message programs to approach Eger and Ceh, who had assumed the identities of girls.

Both agents testified the defendant initiated the online communications, which immediately became sexual in nature. He allegedly expressed a desire to meet each girl for sex and, Eger said, at one point admitted he knew what he was doing was against the law for a 37-year old man.

"But he said, 'I love to have sex with young girls,'"Eger testified.

Miller was living in Erie when on June 13 he first contacted Eger, posing as a 14-year-old girl.

Later that month, the agent said, he was again online and invited the supposed girl to view his webcam. Eger said Miller appeared on camera and exposed himself.

Starr asked Eger if she believed the defendant could have been engaged merely in Internet fantasy.

"Isn't it fair to say anybody could be anything on the Internet,"Starr said, "and you can tell them anything?"

"That's correct," the agent replied.

But later Eger, questioned by Deputy Attorney General William F. Caye II, who is prosecuting the case, acknowledged she and Miller were not in a "role playing chat room."

On Aug. 16 the defendant married his wife after moving to Prospect, court records showed, and in a chat on Sept. 20, he told the 14-year-old girl that he now lived in Butler County.

Eger, still posing as the girl, asked Miller if he would be interested in contacting her 13-year-old friend from the Cranberry Township area. On Sept. 22, Ceh, who assumed the 13-year-old's identity, was contacted, she testified. Two more chats with Miller would follow.

"The chats turned sexual very quickly,"she said.

During that same first encounter, Miller allegedly exposed himself on his webcam to the agent.

The defendant tried to arrange a meeting to have sex with both girls, Ceh said; however, no meeting occurred.

When it was her turn to question the agent, Starr, again, asked if Miller could have been role playing during their online communications.

"It was never brought up,"Ceh said. "It wasn't discussed at all."

Investigators eventually traced Miller's computer chat room identity information and matched the webcam video to his driver's license.

Authorities obtained warrants and seized two computers and equipment from Miler's home.

Ceh testified about Miller's alleged confession given during an interview with agents the day of his arrest. She said the defendant admitted to the online chats.

Starr told Woessner that Miller was participating in an Internet sex fantasy and had no real intent to have sex with minors.

"There is nothing to sustain that my client was not engaged in role playing,"she said.

Starr also offered that if the agents in the chat room were not children then her client did not commit any crime.

But Caye said Miller engaged in sexually explicit online communications with two individuals who identified and portrayed themselves as 13- and 14-year-olds.

And the content of those communications, he said, "would be harmful to minors."