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By JAMES HALPIN This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Published: November 20th, 2009 11:17 PM Last Modified: November 20th, 2009 11:17 PM For more than a year, John Mark Felton chatted online with an Anchorage father of two, planning a visit to meet the family so he could molest a 6-year-old boy, according to documents filed in federal court. Story tools Comments (54)  Recommend (3) E-mail a friend Print Share on Facebook Digg this Seed Newsvine Send _link_ via AIM Follow on Twitter Yahoo! Buzz Font size : A | A | A He talked about a scene in which the father would molest his 7-year- old girl and Felton, a Briton living in Boston, would molest the 6- year-old. I'll come there if you're offering to let me play nicely with your son, Felton wrote during the conversation, according to documents charging him with traveling across state lines with intent to engage in sex with a child. really wanna find a very discreet dad for some fun like this. Felton, 45, was arrested Monday night after getting off an airplane at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, when he learned the father he had been talking to was in fact Special Agent Kevin Laws with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and that the family Laws portrayed was a ruse. According to a resume that investigators turned up online and that includes Felton's picture, he is a research physician currently working as vice president of clinical operations at Acambis, a vaccine development company. He previously worked as senior medical director at GlaxoSmithKline, his resume says. He was working in the United States on a valid visa, according to an affidavit. ADVERTISEMENT   On Feb. 28, 2008, Laws was undercover in a chat room called #Litlleboysexchanel when Felton approached him and eventually proposed he come to Anchorage. you into anything the kids or I should be worried about, Laws wrote. nope, very clean, healthy and discreet. not into anything nasty. just really into kids, the user replied, according to Laws' affidavit. Investigators later traced the user's IP address back to a property Felton owns in Boston, Laws wrote. The men again conversed in online chats on April 17, 2008, when the same user again graphically explained his desire to molest the undercover's son, Laws wrote. The agent sent the user some pictures purporting to be of himself and the kids, who were clothed and with their faces blacked out. Laws did not hear from the user again until Sept. 18 this year, when the man wrote him saying he missed the chats about our shared interests, Laws wrote in the affidavit. The man then discusses steps they should take to avoid detection including that they shouldn't have each other's names, addresses or photos. They exchanged e-mails over the following weeks planning the trip, Laws wrote. Felton boarded a flight for Anchorage on Monday and was greeted by investigators at the baggage claim about 10:30 p.m. In an interview with investigators, Felton admitted he was the person behind the chats, according to Laws' affidavit. Felton is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison and a maximum of life if convicted. He remains in custody at the Anchorage jail. E-mail   Print   (11) Comments   Text size   Share   Buzz up!A respected Back Bay research physician will be arraigned in Alaska today on charges he journeyed to the frontier state to join a sex ring with a demented dad and the father’s two tots. John Mark Felton, 45, vice president of clinical operations and medical affairs at the Cambridge vaccine development company Acambis Inc., planned to dress the 6-year-old boy up as Spider-Man and had bought Hannah Montana toys for his 7-year-old sister, according to federal court documents filed in Boston and Anchorage by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Operation Predator. Felton, a British national, owns a $1 million condo on toney Beacon Street. His resume boasts membership in the Royal College of Physicians in London and reputes him to be a former senior medical director at healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline. He was arrested Nov. 16 at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage after police watched him board a flight at Logan International Airport in Boston. Felton allegedly told authorities he had “purchased two costumes for the (boy)” they’d find in his luggage. But the family Felton thought would be at the baggage carousel to greet him for their raunchy rendezvous - “Bob” and his children “Mark” and “Amy” - had been undercover ICE Senior Special Agent Kevin Laws all along. Between assaults, Felton was willing to babysit the home-schooled children, telling papa pimp Bob (Laws), “That’s the least I can do,” court documents state. Acambis’ offices were closed yesterday and Kevin McCoy, Felton’s attorney in Anchorage, declined to comment on the case, which is built around pages and pages of online conversations ongoing since February 2008. Bob (Laws) queried Felton, “You into anything the kids or I should be worried about?” It’s alleged Felton replied, “Just really into kids.” While he was abusing his daughter Amy, Bob (Laws) promised Felton he could do whatever he wanted to Mark, “As long as it didn’t cause a trip to the hospital. The kids are all I have right now and it would kill me to loose (sic) them.” Felton was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Alaska on charges of attempted aggravated sexual abuse. E-mail   Print   (11) Comments   Text size   Share   Buzz up!A respected Back Bay research physician will be arraigned in Alaska today on charges he journeyed to the frontier state to join a sex ring with a demented dad and the father’s two tots. John Mark Felton, 45, vice president of clinical operations and medical affairs at the Cambridge vaccine development company Acambis Inc., planned to dress the 6-year-old boy up as Spider-Man and had bought Hannah Montana toys for his 7-year-old sister, according to federal court documents filed in Boston and Anchorage by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Operation Predator. Felton, a British national, owns a $1 million condo on toney Beacon Street. His resume boasts membership in the Royal College of Physicians in London and reputes him to be a former senior medical director at healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline. He was arrested Nov. 16 at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage after police watched him board a flight at Logan International Airport in Boston. Felton allegedly told authorities he had “purchased two costumes for the (boy)” they’d find in his luggage. But the family Felton thought would be at the baggage carousel to greet him for their raunchy rendezvous - “Bob” and his children “Mark” and “Amy” - had been undercover ICE Senior Special Agent Kevin Laws all along. Between assaults, Felton was willing to babysit the home-schooled children, telling papa pimp Bob (Laws), “That’s the least I can do,” court documents state. Acambis’ offices were closed yesterday and Kevin McCoy, Felton’s attorney in Anchorage, declined to comment on the case, which is built around pages and pages of online conversations ongoing since February 2008. Bob (Laws) queried Felton, “You into anything the kids or I should be worried about?” It’s alleged Felton replied, “Just really into kids.” While he was abusing his daughter Amy, Bob (Laws) promised Felton he could do whatever he wanted to Mark, “As long as it didn’t cause a trip to the hospital. The kids are all I have right now and it would kill me to loose (sic) them.” Felton was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Alaska on charges of attempted aggravated sexual abuse.