ROCHESTER, Minn. – An Olmsted County sheriff’s jailer was caught prowling online for underage girls for sex, according to a criminal complaint. Mathew Adamson, 44, didn’t know he was chatting with an officer working a sting for online pedophiles, the complaint said. The officer pretended to be a13-year-old girl. The complaint said Adamson offered to buy her alcohol if she would do adult-like sexual acts with him. Adamsin also was in similar communication with another investigator posing as 14 years old, the complaint said. At one point, according to the complaint, Adamson sent a photo of himself in a curious setting — an Olmsted County courtroom. He was arrested at a rendezvous last week and arraigned. Bail was set at $10,000. He has since resigned.
Adamson. No, she wasn’t 13. No, she wasn’t a girl. For him, the sting went badly.