© Police HandoutDustin Canup, 20, and Sareena Morrison, 18, of Loveland, Colo, arranged to meet with a man they thought was offering to trade sex with his 6-year-old daughter for money.
A Colorado couple was busted in a disturbing scheme to lure child sex abusers to a hotel room, rob them and then kidnap their children, authorities said.
Dustin Canup, 20, and Sareena Morrison, 18, were busted at a motel in Loveland on Friday in a sting set up by undercover police, Denver's Channel 7 reported.
Cops said the pair posted messages on Internet sex sites targeting men willing to sell their children for sex.
After receiving a tip from someone who had seen their posting, Loveland police reached out to the couple posing as a man willing to pimp out his 6-year-old daughter, the station reported.
The group agreed to meet at the hotel, where the unsuspecting couple agreed to pay to "engage in sex acts with the 6-year-old girl," authorities said.
Cops busted the pair when they knocked on the door of the room at the Hi-Way Motel.
Canup had a 12-inch knife strapped to his waist and handcuffs in his pocket, Channel 7 reported.
The couple told police they planned to rob the man they were going to meet and then blackmail him into giving them his daughter.
The couple said they'd threaten to call the cops if the man didn't comply, police said.
The pair was facing conspiracy, attempted kidnapping, attempted extortion and other charges.
They were both being held in the Larimer County Jail.
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