NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A Dutch teenager tells an interviewer that he left Natalee Holloway, the U.S. teenager who disappeared in Aruba, alone on a beach.
Joran van der Sloot told ABC News "Primetime" that he left a bar with Holloway planning to have sex with her on the beach. But he said in the end they "cuddled" because he was not prepared with a condom and then he went home.
"At that moment in time, for me, it wasn't the wrong thing," he said. "It's not something a real man would do. It's not normal. It's not right at all."
The interview airs Thursday night.
Van der Sloot said he left his shoes on the beach not because he was in a panic but because he forgot them until he was in a friend's car. He acknowledged lying about dropping Holloway off at the Holiday Inn, saying that he did not want his father and friends to have a bad opinion of him for leaving her alone on the beach.
Holloway was in Aruba with a high school group celebrating graduation. She was reported missing the next day.
