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Canadian 'sex tourist' who flew to Broward for teen sex being sentenced

A Canadian "sex tourist" who admitted he traveled to Fort Lauderdale to have sex with two teenage boys is facing 10 years to life in federal prison when he is sentenced this afternoon.

Rene Roberge, 48, wrote in one email that, after a near-death experience, he decided to live all his fantasies and indulge what he called his "perve dreams."

Roberge was arrested in November shortly after his flight landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

He had been communicating online for several weeks with a man Roberge thought was going to let him have sex with the man's 14-year-old son in Pompano Beach.