A professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work was arrested after police said he tried to meet up with an undercover detective who posed as a 15-year-old boy, shared explicit material with them and propositioned them for various sexual acts.
Court documents said the detective identified themselves as a 15-year-old boy and used age-regressed photos of themselves when they began to chat with a suspect who was identified as Shiyou Wu. Court documents listed a different name from Wu’s, but a Maricopa County Superior Court spokesperson confirmed Wu was the correct name.
Court documents said Wu told the detective that he had borrowed a large SUV from his roommate and stopped at a store to purchase alcohol for the boy prior to meeting up at an apartment in Chandler where he was arrested…