A former University of Hawai'i faculty member who pleaded guilty in November to arranging a meeting for sex with a juvenile online will begin serving a jail term today.

Marc P.C. Fossorier, 43, yesterday was sentenced by Circuit Judge Derrick H.M. Chan to one year in jail and five years of probation for first-degree electronic enticement of a child stemming from an Oct. 29 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 expected to report to the O'ahu Community Correctional Center today. Fossorier, a French national, pleaded guilty "to take responsibility and deal with it," his attorney, Victor Bakke, said in November.

Bakke was traveling yesterday and unavailable for comment.

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."