A judge sentenced former Inman, Kansas, Police Chief Mike
Akins Jr. to life in prison for sex crimes against children. Akins reportedly will have to serve 55 years before he's eligible for parole. (If the 39-year-old lives that long, he'll be around 94 years old.) It's a fitting end for someone convicted of molesting children while wearing his police uniform.
A jury convicted Akins of 15 charges of molesting, inappropriately touching
and soliciting three girls, who are now ages 10, 11 and 15. The Associated Press' story, which includes details of Akins admitting that he wore only boxer shorts around the children for comfort and had the girls shave his back because he couldn't reach it, is disgusting.
Akins' victims testified that the ex-lawman touched them inappropriately in
2009. Testimony painted Akins as "a lovesick school boyfriend when a
14-year-old girl refused his advances." Prosecutors
described the children as fearful of what Akins would do if they
disclosed the abuse.
The children's mother testified that Akins became controlling in 2009
after
her 14-year-old daughter started seeing a boy. Akins reportedly texted
the girl quite a bit.
By December 2009, the
relationship between the children's mother and Akins had fallen apart.
And she
testified that "Akins continued to call, threatened suicide, and followed
the children to
Hutchinson when they were visiting their father." The mother ended up
taking out a protection-from-stalking order against Akins.
Akins denied the abuse. When the 15-year-old girl made a recorded phone call to Akins in January
2010 with the help of a KBI agent, Akins again denied any abuse.
"I never did that to you. I can't talk to you, I'm sorry," Akins told
the girl.
His defense attorney argued that the allegations came out after
Akins broke up with the victims' mother.
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