MIAMI -- Over the past two nights in Local 10's exclusive prison interview, former Channel 7 weatherman Bill Kamal has said he is not guilty. He said he was not planning to have sex with a child. He said he's not a predator and would never hurt anyone. He denied what the police and the courts said he did.

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So, if he didn't do it, why on Earth did he say he did, and why did he plead guilty and accept a prison sentence? Local 10's Matt Lorch continues the exclusive prison interview with Kamal.

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Just a month and a half after being arrested in Fort Pierce in an Internet sex sting, Kamal stood before a judge and admitted guilt. He now calls it the worst decision of his life

Kamal: "On Dec. 10 when (the judge) asked me how I plead and I said, 'I plead guilty, your honor,' I did not want to say that. I wanted to surprise everybody. In my heart I wanted to say, 'I can't bring myself to say I'm guilty. Let's get on with the trial.' I wanted so badly to say, 'I'm not guilty.'

"When you don't know anything about the criminal justice system you don't even know the difference between federal and state. I was a weatherman. A meteorologist. I wasn't a newsperson. I didn't have my Rolodex filled with detectives and federal agents, CIA. Who the hell knew what I was doing? Who the hell knew what kind of attorney I needed? I was riding blind and I thought everybody was out to get my money anyway because I was a television personality respected in the community -- high profile."

Kamal says the system was quickly overwhelming him and he knew the evidence that would be used against him; water guns in his car that police claimed they were gifts to lure a child into sex. Kamal says they were sent to him at the TV station as promotional items and had been in the trunk of his car for over a year.

Police found condoms in the glove compartment, evidence they say that Kamal was planning to have sex. Kamal says they were freebies handed out at a nightclub that had been sitting in his glove box.

And there were those emails -- the sexually graphic exchanges, many too disgusting for TV -- plotting a sexual encounter, say authorities. Just game playing, according to Kamal.

Still, he knew he was in serious trouble and Kamal needed a good attorney. He considered one of the nation's best -- Roy Black, of William Kennedy Smith fame.

He was facing trial in a month and a half and Judge Michael K. Moore wouldn't grant a delay.

Kamal: "The trial was set for Dec. 13. Roy Black wants to defend me. I'll probably spend a million dollars with Roy Black. How do you put together a $1 million trial in 30-something calendar days? The judge denied three motions for a continuance. I think he did that purposely to force a plea. I really believe that because I still wanted to go to trial."

Kamal passed on Roy Black and went with Jeffrey Volluck, who had more affordable legal fees.

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Kamal: "Jeffrey Volluck seemed to be a dapper, 30-year history, criminal defense attorney. To this day, I didn't really have any bad words with him. I just don't think he did what he set out to do because he was a trial lawyer. He loves to go to trial, from what I was led to believe, and from loving to go to trial to one day coming to the FCD in Miami and saying, 'Bill, I think we got to plea. I think we need to plea.'

"What was getting me by in November and December was that I was going to go to trial and tell my story -- and no matter how bad the publicity, the media circus, it couldn't be worse. So, I want to tell my story -- no, they wanted me to plea. "It's like Judge Moore was inflicting terror on these people -- these people that I paid $125,000 to -- all of a sudden say, 'We should plea,' because if I don't plea he could sentence me to 15 to 20 years if the jury found me guilty. He didn't care what the guidelines were or what the federal prosecutor wanted. He beat to his own drum. He beat to his own drum. And plus the fact that they said I was arrested in St. Lucie County in Fort Pierce -- right-wing, conservative county -- and how was I going to get 12 jurors to agree unanimously that I was innocent? And I'm thinking, 'Because I can explain my story and tell them, and isn't that what you wanted me to do in the first place? Isn't that why I hired you?' They talked me into pleading on that day, on Dec. 10. Plus the judge only gave us less than 38 calendar days. Think about it."

Kamal now wants to take back that guilty plea, saying that at the time, his attorneys talked him into it. The scary reality of decades in prison, he says, forced him into the safe decision. He cut the deal.

Kamal: "They had my mind. I was in such shock. I didn't know how I was thinking. I was cringing. Now I see more clearly. And they think that is part of the strategy, they knock you down, they beat you down, they put you in isolation, force you to plea."

So Local 10 went to Kamal's attorney, Jeffrey Volluck. He didn't want to go on camera but says he's disappointed about Kamal's comments. He says the decision to accept a guilty plea was Kamal's alone. He didn't talk him into anything and he says no one on the legal team was intimidated by the judge.

As for Kamal's future, he is attempting to appeal his sentence. Just two weeks ago he wrote a letter to Judge Moore. The judge has received the letter but won't comment on its status, although computer records show the appeal status now listed as pending.

Wednesday night on Local 10 at 11 p.m.: What can Bill Kamal do after prison? Does he think TV will be in his future? How will society accept him?

And he has a personal message for the viewers who supported him for so many years.