An elementary and middle school music teacher was arrested after attempting a crude Internet seduction of a detective who posed as a young girl, authorities said.
Balazs Toth, 36, of Broomfield set up a meeting with the detective after propositioning her on an Internet chat room and was taken into custody by Denver police on Dec. 5.
Toth taught music and was band director at St. Catherine of Siena School and at Escuela de Guadalupe Catholic school. Both schools are in Denver.
He refused to comment.
Toth resigned from St. Catherine, where he taught for eight years, three days after his arrest. The school notified parents of the resignation in a letter, and the principal and pastor held a meeting to answer questions, said Jeanette DeMelo, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Denver.
The letter did say that he was arrested for attempting to engage in inappropriate conduct with a 14-year-old girl.
He has also resigned from Escuela, a private nonprofit school that isn’t affiliated with the archdiocese. The school’s president, David Card, couldn’t be reached for comment.
Toth maintains a website for SILstudio, an “affordable semi-pro recording-mixing-mastering studio in Westminster” that he operates, according to the site.
On the site, he says that he attended the “F. Liszt Music conservatory Hungary, Europe” and that he came to Denver in 1997.
“I was online portraying a juvenile female under the age of 15 years. I was …. sitting idle in a chatroom. I received an instant message from screen name holtonstudio, later identified as Balazs Toth,” the undercover detective wrote in a document on file with the Denver district attorney.
Toth started the Internet chat by asking if the fictitious girl was a virgin, according to the document.
He then described a sex act he wanted to perform on her and sent a picture of an erect penis. He was arrested when he arrived at a location where he had arranged to meet her.
He faces charges of Internet sexual exploitation of a child, Internet luring of a child and other felonies. Toth was released on $35,000 bond, according to Denver district attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough.
