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Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced yesterday that seven men have been arrested in a sting operation that targeted adults who use Internet chat rooms to try to have sex with minors. The men -- one a Fleming County elementary school teacher -- each traveled to Louisville to engage in sexual relations with what they thought was a 12- to 13-year-old girl. Some of the men even brought condoms, alcohol and the impotence drug Viagra with them according to the Attorney General who made the announcement yesterday during a press conference held in the state capital rotunda. Stumbo's office teamed with the sexual predator watchdog group Perverted Justice, famous for their work on a series of Dateline NBC programs on child predators as well as law enforcement officials from across the state to complete the three-day sting last weekend. In the Kentucky sting, each man approached an adult posing as a young girl in an online chat room, describing the sexual acts they planned to do and then setting up a face-to-face meeting. Some of the men sent explicit photos or videos, Stumbo said. The men were charged with using an electronic device to entice a minor into a sexual act, a felony. All but one was charged with attempted unlawful transaction with a minor, also a felony. They were all lodged in the Jefferson County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.