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Western Pennsylvania choral teacher Daniel McGarvey, 44, has pleaded guilty to trying to meet a teenage girl for sex. But believe it or not, this wasn't his biggest mistake.

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A western Pennsylvania teacher has pleaded guilty to trying to meet a teenage girl for sex. But believe it or not, this wasn't his biggest mistake.

In arranging the meeting with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl, 44-year-old Daniel McGarvey of the Uniontown area traveled across state lines and into West Virginia for the illicit rendezvous.

And that made it a federal crime.

The Associated Press reports that McGarvey, a now-ex-choral teacher at the Laurel Highlands School District near Uniontown, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. A sentencing date hasn't been set.

Background by AP:

Bridgeport police arrested McGarvey in October 2014 at a mall. Police say he went to the mall expecting to meet a 15-year-old girl. The girl was actually a police detective who had corresponded online with McGarvey.