HOUSTON -- A Houston teen's parents thought she was home schooling and babysitting her much younger brother and sister. But instead, she was on the Internet looking for sex, the Local 2 Troubleshooters reported in an exclusive story.

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Teen Talks About Sexual Encounters With Men From Net

"They all seem interesting at first. They want to get to know you, and then they compliment you on how pretty you are. And that just gets the other person thinking, well maybe this person likes me," the teen said.

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Since the girl was 15 years old, she has been drawn to older guys and was able to find them in the same chat rooms where the Local 2 Troubleshooters posed as a 13-year-old girl and found older men praying on teenage girls.

"When I talked to the guys I met, it was basically, you know, a little apprehensive about my age at first, but then they started saying ' Wow, you seem really mature for your age … the way you talk … the way you handle yourself.' And that's basically what happened with all of them," the teen told the Troubleshooters.

The girl, who was not identified because of her age, said she is coming clean because her father caught her in her bedroom with a naked 28-year-old man.

"I feel very violated. I feel very upset," the girl's father told the Troubleshooters.

After running the man off, the father said he sat his daughter down and asked how long she had been inviting strangers into the family's home when she was supposed to be watching her sister and brother.

The teen told her father she had been finding the men online and inviting them over for at least two years.

"I could have come home and I could have had three dead children, and would have known absolutely nothing about what had caused it. And then, only through an investigation, would we have found out, if ever," the father told the Troubleshooters.

The father said he failed as a parent because he digs inside computers for a living. He said he could have installed fancy software to track his daughter's every move online but didn't because he trusted her.

"What's the story, the shoemaker has no shoes? You know? I know that's ironic," the father said.

"(Well), the thing I regret the most is being selfish. I didn't think about my younger siblings, you know? I was really putting them in danger and I didn't realize it at the time. What I regret the most is that I was just thinking of myself and wasn't thinking of them or their future," the teen said.

The Troubleshooters asked the father if he did anything about the men she met. The father said he called the police and that his daughter has given them several names.

A grand jury will consider charges against every man she identified as someone who came over to their home for sex when she was 15 and 16 years old.

However, the father said their arrests would not bring him comfort.

"I don't think my home is safe and secure. I really don't know how many people have had access to my house, who knows what's inside my house, know how many children I have, who know intimate details that you wouldn't give that information to anyone," the father said. "And it really concerns me. It highly concerns me."