An employee with Texas Child Protective Services is one of 20 accused of online solicitation of a minor, authorities say.

Adrian Martinez, 44, was nabbed in an undercover operation in which officers posed as children online, police said.

Martinez remained in the Tarrant County Jail Friday.

“As soon as we became aware of the arrest of Adrian Martinez he was removed from caseworker duties and placed on administrative leave,” a CPS statement said. “We are cooperating fully with law enforcement.”

Martinez is CPS conservatorship caseworker and joined the agency in May 2016.

Conservatorship caseworkers monitor the care of children who are in state custody. 

I shouldn't be shocked at things but I do get shocked and surprised at hte people who come in and the professions they represent. And it's scary and it's very troubling at times that we have these folks out there who are child predators.

"I shouldn't be shocked at things but I do get shocked and surprised at the people who come in and the professions they represent," said Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn who formed the human trafficking task force. "It's scary and it's very troubling at times that we have these folks out there who are child predators."

Waybourn said Martinez believed he was chatting with a 14-year-old boy.

Martinez was one of 20 people charged in an online sting earlier this week in an operation conducted by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, Fort Worth Police, the Tarrant County Constable Precinct 2, and Texas DPS.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/CPS-Worker-Nabbed-in-Online-Sex-Sting-494621091.html

The picture is worth a thousand words…

Who hired these men???

Great things for good are happening.