A former employee at the Women's Correctional Facility has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl over the Internet.

Tyler M. Wong, 30, received the maximum sentence yesterday after the prosecutor in the case argued that the defendant had shown no remorse and posed a continuing danger to the community.

Circuit Judge Randal Lee handed down the sentence.

Wong, who was working as a recreational therapist at the women's prison in Kailua when he was arrested April 4, pleaded no contest to a charge of electronic enticement of a child.

Wong was actually communicating with a law enforcement agent posing as a 13-year-old girl when he made arrangements for a late-night meeting at the site of the old Kam Swap Meet on Moanalua Road.

After his arrest, Wong "failed to take responsibility for his actions," said Deputy Attorney General Albert Cook, who prosecuted the case.

BIG ISLE MAN HELD IN STABBING DEATH

A Kailua, Kona, man remained in custody yesterday as Big Island police continued their investigation into the stabbing death of his father.

The body of John M. Scott, 85, was discovered at 6:30 a.m. Sunday in his Ali'i Drive home in North Kona with a single stab wound to the upper torso. Scott's son, 51, was arrested for questioning.

WAILEA WILDFIRE EXTINGUISHED

A wildfire in Wailea that burned nearly 700 acres over a two-week period was declared extinguished Sunday morning, Maui fire officials announced yesterday.

The fire began Aug. 23 and remained smoldering after burning 155 acres. It rekindled four days later and burned an additional 500 acres. The fire was near the Maui Meadows subdivision.

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources and Goodfellow Brothers construction company participating in the firefighting effort.