Man Responds To Online Sex Ad – Meets Police Officer

A Milwaukee man found out the hard way the 14-year-old girl he thought he was talking to was really a cop.  Thirty-year-old Timothy Baumann faces a felony charge of use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime.  A member of an internet crimes-against-children task force responded to a Craigslist ad which turned out to be Baumann’s and the officer pretended to be a teenage girl.  During a series of online messages to two agreed to meet near an Oconomowoc business last Thursday.  Baumann was taken into custody and he is scheduled for a preliminary hearing February 23rd.