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A Tucson man promised his judge Monday that he'll spend his 10-year term in prison trying to understand why he felt compelled to meet a 13-year-old boy for sex and sent him pornographic pictures.

Maybe eventually he will be able to "fix" whatever is wrong with him, James Coleman, 35, told Pima County Superior Court Judge Hector Campoy.

"I know what I did was wrong and I admit to that fully," Coleman said.

Last May, Coleman was arrested by the Tucson Police Department and the FBI after arriving Downtown on a city bus to meet the boy, whom he'd met on the Internet, for sex.

The "boy," however, was actually an undercover detective.

At the time of Coleman's arrest, Tucson police said Coleman had been communicating with the purported 13-year-old for 10 days and had sent 10 different pornographic images of children to someone he thought was a youth.

Last month, Coleman pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual conduct with a minor.

On Monday, Campoy sentenced him to 10 years in prison on the exploitation charge and 10 years' probation on the conduct charge.

Although Coleman could have received as many as 32 years in prison, Campoy said he took into consideration Coleman's lack of a criminal history, the lack of an actual victim and the fact that Coleman is going blind.

Coleman asked the judge if he could be sent to a sex offender unit at the Arizona State Hospital so he could be treated for his problem and kept safe from other inmates.

Campoy explained that he couldn't do that, but he did order extra security measures for Coleman.