Jaswinder Cheema, resided in San Jose at the time of the sting, and worked as the marketing manager of a Silicon Valley technology company. Beginning in August of 2006, Cheema, using the screenname "xclusivelyinit," began chatting with a Perverted Justice decoy he believed to be a 13-year-old girl named Willow. Willow claimed she had had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boyfriend, so age was no problem for her. Unfortunately, it wasn't a problem for him, either. His chat was both boring and strange.