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Pedophile Navy recruiter get 15 years in Craigslist sex with children sting
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A Navy recruiter was sentenced to 15 years without parole for an attempt to have sex with an
11-year-old child.
Shane Allan Childers, 32, of Olathe, Kan., paid an undercover law enforcement officer $60 to have sex with a child. He also paid an extra $20 to have intercourse without using a condom.
Childers was snagged in an undercover FBI operation.
Operation Guardian Angel, a unique undercover law enforcement investigation targeting the demand for child prostitutes in the Kansas City metro area. As a result of this investigation, a total of seven defendants were indicted in the nation’s first-ever federal prosecution of the alleged customers of child prostitution under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
The court also ordered Childers to forfeit his 2002 Chrysler Sebring, which he used to commit the offense.
Court documents state that on July 15, 2009, Childers pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain a minor for a commercial sex act. Childers also admitted that he used the Internet and a cell phone to attempt to induce a child to engage in prostitution, and that he traveled across state lines to attempt to engage in a commercial sex act with a minor.
The sting operation took place on March 5, through the 7th 2009, the Human Trafficking Rescue Project, led by the Independence Police Department, conducted a sting operation targeting local customers who solicit pimps to engage in commercial sex acts with children.
The “children” were advertised online at Craigslist. No real children were actually involved in the sting.
Childers, who was an active duty naval recruiter at the time of the offense, responded to an online ad, using a government-owned computer at the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Lenexa, Kan., his Navy e-mail address and his government-issued cell phone to arrange the transaction.
Childers was wearing his Navy uniform, but had taken off his uniform shirt and was wearing a white undershirt when he knocked on the door of the undercover residence.
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