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Eric Karch, 53, is accused of trying to meet up with who he believed was a 13-year-old girl for sex.

Karch allegedly took a SEPTA bus from Jenkintown to Bensalem to meet the girl and was arrested.

He is being held on $10M bail.

A 53-year-old Jenkintown man is being held on $10M for allegedly trying to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex, prosecutors announced Friday.

What we know:

Eric Karch was arrested on Thursday after investigators say he took a SEPTA bus from Jenkintown to Besalem to meet who he believed was a 13-year-old girl.

Police say Karch began chatting online with the middle school-aged teen just days before his arrest and "quickly took the conversation in a sexual direction."

Karch, according to investigators, requested nude photographs of the teen and sent expli

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