A former University of Hawai'i professor who pleaded guilty in November 2007 to arranging an online meeting for sex with a juvenile will begin serving a jail term tomorrow.

Marc P.C. Fossorier, 43, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Derrick H.M. Chan to one year in jail and five years probation for first-degree electronic enticement of a child stemming from a Oct. 29, 2007 sting operation conducted by the Hawai'i Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force,

Deputy Attorney General Albert Cook said other conditions of the sentencing require Fossorier to register as a sex offender, undergo sex-offender treatment and have no Internet access without prior authorization from his probation officer.

The former associate professor of engineering is scheduled to report to Judge Chan's chamber tomorrow morning, Fossorier's attorney Victor Bakke said. He will then be taken to the O'ahu Community Correctional Center. Fossorier, a French national, pleaded guilty to the charge "to take responsibility and deal with it," Bakke, said in November.

Fossorier could have been sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison. "We always ask for the open can (maximum sentence)," Cook said. "Anyone willing to get onto the computer and set up a meeting for sex is a dangerous person."