A 26-year-old man from Auburn has been charged with second-degree attempted rape of a child, along with commercial sexual abuse of a minor and communication with a minor for immoral purposes. The charges follow an online undercover operation run by the Fife Police Department, the Puyallup Tribal Police Department and Washington State Patrol’s Missing Exploited Children Task Force, supported by local and federal partners. Investigators said a task force officer posted an ad on a prostitution website, using an undercover persona of a 13-year-old girl named Nycole, with images and communications age-regressed through an application. On November 9, a reply from the man led to text-message exchanges in which he allegedly agreed to meet the girl at a hotel in Fife for sex. Officers arrested the man when he arrived at the hotel room. During a search incident to the arrest, they found $167 cash, eight condoms and an erectile dysfunction pill. Video footage also showed him going to the room. After he was taken to the Fife Police Department, he asked for a lawyer and declined to answer questions. He was booked into the Pierce County Corrections Facility on November 10, and as of November 12 he remained in custody with bail set at $25,000, according to jail records. Source: Federal Way Mirror.