WAUPACA (NBC 26) — A Madison priest accused of child sex crimes was formally charged in Waupaca County on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say Andrew Showers was caught in a police sting operation while attempting to arrange sex with a person he thought was a Clintonville child.

According to a criminal complaint, Showers was actually in communication with a Clintonville Police sergeant who was posing as a 14-year-old.

Showers sent a photo of himself with his genitals partially exposed and requested to meet the fictitious 14-year-old in person, according to the complaint. Conversations between the suspect and the undercover sergeant became sexually explicit, investigators said, and a meet up was arranged at a park in Clintonville.

Officers identified Showers alone in a car pulling up to the meet

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