UH student arraigned on Internet sex charge

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

A 35-year-old University of Hawai'i-Manoa graduate student accused of using the Internet to lure a young girl to have sex was identified through online written conversations with a state special investigator who posed as a teenager, according to documents filed in court.

Paul Dominic Clur was arraigned yesterday at District Court on a felony charge of first-degree electronic enticement of a child. A preliminary hearing for Clur, who is free on $50,000 bail, is scheduled for Nov. 4.

The Hawai'i Internet Crimes Against Children unit arrested Clur on Friday after he showed up at a fast-food restaurant on South King Street to meet the 13-year-old girl he had been having online written conversations with since Sept. 16, according to an investigator's report filed at District Court.

Erick Egami, a police narcotics/ vice officer assigned to the task force, said in his report that state investigator Christopher Bradford was logged onto an online chat system pretending to be a 13-year-old girl when he was contacted by Clur.

Egami's report also said Clur messaged that he had had sex with a 15-year-old girl.

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