Shane Allan Childers pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to offering to pay $80 to have sex with an 11-year-old girl. Of course, this was part of a sting. But the way the 32-year-old Olathe man got busted was a thing of sheer stupidity.
Childers was a naval recruiter at the time, and used a government computer at the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Lenexa to respond to a Craigslist ad for sex with a child. He also used his Navy e-mail address and government issued cell phone. It apparently never occurred to him that the government might be watching.
Childers even dressed to impress once the transaction was set, wearing his Navy uniform (but taking
off the shirt) to the door of the house used in the
sting.
Inside, Childers paid an undercover agent $60 to have sex with
an 11-year-old girl. He threw in an extra $20 so he wouldn't have to
wear a condom.
Childers admitted trying to pay for sex with a child and using the
Internets and a cell phone to do it before he crossed
state lines (which led to government taking his 2002 Chrysler
Sebring).
Childers faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison without parole and possibly life in prison.
Childer also admitted to having used prostitutes since he served in Hong Kong in 1998.
A Facebook page belonging to Shane Childers shows a matching birth date and identical cell phone number to ones listed in court documents. The site says Childers is from Overland Park, Kansas, and looking to network. From his bio:
I am currently in the navy 12 years so far and 8 till i retire. married
for 11 years so far and going strong, currently have 4 kids, my life!
Childers lists "family" among his interests. He also drops the ages of his children -- 10, 7, 5 and 3 -- and posts photos of himself and a woman under the title "love of my life."
Childers describes his rank in the Navy "petty officer second class." He writes:
currently a navy recruit in overland park, ks and love it
Also pleading guilty on Thursday were Christopher M. Cockrell and Randal G. Jennings.
Cockrell, 34, of Amory, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to the same charge as Childers. He was coming to Kansas City for the weekend and made the same $80 offer as Childers, but Cockrell thought he was paying for sex with a 15-year-old girl, who he also believed was a runaway.
Cockrell thought he was e-mailing the girl's pimp to set up the deal, but really was talking to an undercover officer. In one e-mail, he asked: "Is she willing or do you have to hold her down?"
Cockrell paid the "pimp" with "a $100 bill and told him to keep the change." Inside Cockrell's vehicle was a loaded Desert Eagle semi-automatic .45-caliber handgun, nine kives, two digital cmaeras and a notebook with the names and phone numbers of women who sell sex.
Cockrell faces a mandatory minimum 10-year sentence in federal prison without parole and up to a life sentence without parole.
Jennings pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking for trying to sell at least five minors into prostitution between October 1, 2007, and January 29, 2009.
The 42-year-old from Chillicothe admitted trying to recruit five children to work as prostitutes. When Jennings met the children in motel rooms, he would take sexually explicit photos of them, which he used in Internet advertisements.
For several years Jennings acted as a pimp for the girls, one from the time she was 14 until she was 17.
He landed in custody after an undercover prostitution sting at a Johnson County motel. He was busted after dropping off two 17-year-old girls who agreed to perform sex acts for $300.
Jennings is looking at a minimum of 10 years in federal prison without parole and up to a life sentence without parole.
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i know my big brother well enough and i already know that he would not do anything like that i think that you people need to get yall stories straight before you force a man to pleade guilty even though he is not so yall need to stop being mean to my brother and let him go if anything put him on house arrest and let him be with his wife and kids please i want them to stay together
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