Federal prosecutors have brought charges against a former high-level New York City Department of Education official, who they allege tried to meet up with a teenage boy for sex through a dating app.

Prosecutors with the Eastern District of Wisconsin said that David Hay went on a dating app in July and began corresponding with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy named Colton, The New York Times reports.

Hay, 39, allegedly made plans to meet Colton at a hotel for sex and had booked a “whirlpool suite” in a Neenah, Wis., hotel, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

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However, Colton was actually an undercover cop. Hay was arrested at a Milwaukee airport Sunday and charged with facilitating a child sex crime in a Green Bay, Wis., court Friday.

The New York City Education Department fired Hay the day after it learned of his arrest.

“These allegations are incredibly disturbing and absolutely unacceptable,” Miranda Barbot, a spokeswoman for the department, told the Times.

Hay began working at the department in 2016, where he was deputy chief of staff to schools chancellor Richard Carranza and involved in decision-making on education policy.

Hay faces a mandatory 10 years in prison and could face a life sentence.

In addition to the facilitation of a child sex crime, investigators also found almost a dozen sexually explicit photos of a former student from the high school in Wisconsin where Hay was principal between 2011 and 2014. An unsealed criminal complaint revealed Friday that the photos were when the student was in high school and under the age of 18.

The person in the photographs told investigators that he did not send the photos to Hay when he was underage, but might have when he was an adult, the Times says.

Possession of child pornography carries a sentence of up to 10 years.