Subject: Sexual Offenses

• A Socialite’s Fall

  September 26, 2007

• The War Zone

  April 27, 2000

• That's a lot of child porn

  Richard McNett had a lot of child porn. A lot. The Lawrence Journal-World reports:Investigators found 1,202 child pornography images on disks, 7,740 images on McNett's hard drive and 13,990 images on 11 compact discs, [U.S. attorney spokesman Jim] Cross said. I don't know anything about child porn busts, but that sounds like a shitload of child porn to me. The 51-year-old was sentenced to six and a half years in a federal pen yesterday. The investigation began after McNett's wife told investig

  January 7, 2009

• Shon Pernice's lawyer vindicates Ethiopian cab driver accused of rape

  Attorney Kevin Baldwin (pictured) may act like an asshat -- as David Martin wrote earlier this week in his look at how Baldwin has handled the press while representing Shone Pernice, husband of missing white woman Renee Pernice -- but he's also a winner. Baldwin didn't have time to talk to Martin about the Pernice case. Guess he was busy defending an Ethiopian cab driver accused of raping a woman. Baldwin's office sent out a press release yesterday celebrating the not-guilty verdict that his cli

  January 16, 2009

• Repressed Memories

  January 10, 2002

• No charges in alleged rape at school

  KSHB Channel 41 is reporting that no charges will be filed in the alleged rape of a teenage girl at Fairview Alternative School, 2850 Pittman Rd., last month. View Larger Map A 17-year-old girl alleged that a 14-year-old boy raped her in a bathroom on May 20.The announcement came Wednesday from Jackson County Family Court officials, KSHB reported.

  June 3, 2009

• James Rincon really likes child pornography

  James E. Rincon really, really likes child pornography. The 41-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to downloading child pornography from the Internet. But he wasn't just into receiving child pornography. Rincon fashioned himself the J.J. Abrams of child porn.Rincon's computer wasn't working in November 2005, so he took it to Tech Guys in Overland Park. Guess what they found? Guess who they called? Guess how many pictures the cops found? 185. That's not all they found

  February 26, 2009

• Here’s a serious answer to a serious pinche problem

  February 19, 2009

• "Young at Art" Cocktail Party and Silent Auction

  August 21, 2008

• Documenting Survival

  April 10, 2008

• SAFEHOME Golf Tournament

  August 16, 2007

• The Crowd Goes Wild!

  Why do seemingly adoring fans curse at musicians?

  June 21, 2007

• Dead Man's Camp

  February 1, 2007

• Homeward Bound

  July 13, 2006

• The Spotlight's Red Glare

  With sparks flying between politicians — and the national media — it’s a typical week in Kansas.

  June 29, 2006

• The Lonely Guy

  March 9, 2006

• Black Dahlia Murder

  Thursday, July 29, at The Bottleneck.

  July 29, 2004

• Mother Superior Court

  The Kansas City Catholic Diocese finds itself fighting a slew of new lawsuits over abuse of parishioners all filed by one determined lawyer.

  October 16, 2003

• Where Is the Love?

  Turns out the summer’s big-news prostitution sting wasn’t half as sexy as reported.

  September 18, 2003

• Family Portrait

  Andrew Jarecki captured the Friedmans, perhaps to free them.

  June 26, 2003

• Independence Days

  Former stripper Samantha Steeves and ex-hooker Kristy Childs are trying to pass on what they've learned about sex, dope -- and death.

  January 30, 2003

• Head Cases

  A man who had sex at Shawnee Mission Park and patrons at a St. Louis porn house carry the baton for gays and lesbians in Kansas and Missouri.

  January 2, 2003

• Chewed Out

  A judge blames dentist Vernon Rice's sex victims.

  April 25, 2002

• Fallen Angel

  Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

  January 24, 2002

• Sex Cells

  Wyandotte County's female inmates get the shaft.

  September 13, 2001

• Compelling Testimony

  Does Kansas’ peter meter rise to the level of thumbscrews?

  June 28, 2001

• Vachss Attack

  Andrew Vachss wants everyone to experience the worst in humanity.

  October 5, 2000

• The Penile System

  The Kansas Department of Corrections' treatment program offends even sex offenders.

  October 5, 2000

• Let the Chips Fall

  One 14-year-old girl was on dangerous ground at Guy's Foods.

  August 24, 2000

• Beyond the call of duty

  Dr. Cynthia Turnbull repeatedly told administrators at Topeka State Hospital that if security measures were not improved, someone was going to get hurt. Turnbull never imagined it would be her.

  May 4, 2000

• Leroy Green III pleads guilty to raping children

  Leroy Green III pleaded guilty today to three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of rape. Green is the son of a former Wyandotte County Sheriff Leroy Green Jr.Leroy Green IIILast December, Green was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting four children, all younger than 14, between October 2001 and August 2008. He was charged with nine counts of rape and six counts of indecent liberties with a child.Wyandotte County District Judge Michael Grosko accepted the p

  May 11, 2009

• 10-year-old girl claims she was raped at George Washington Carver Elementary School

  A 10-year-old girl claims that another student raped her in a classroom Monday at George Washington Carver Elementary School (4600 Elmwood Ave.). View Larger Map An incident report taken by the Kansas City Police Department gives these details: The alleged rape happened after a teacher left the students alone in his classroom. The male student allegedly locked the classroom door, took the girl into a corner, reached down the girl's pants and touched her vagina. Then he asked if he could put h

  May 20, 2009

• 12-year-old boy claims girls tried to stick the end of an umbrella in his butt

  The mother of a 12-year-old boy alleges that her son was sexually assaulted on a school bus, and the driver didn't do anything to help her son. KSHB Channel 41 reports that a male student a Milton Moore Elementary School was riding the bus home from school when two female students held the boy down in a bus seat, pulled the boy's pants down and tried to stick the end of an umbrella in the boy's butt. Here's what the boy's mother, Lisa Drone, told KSHB:"(My son) said he was hollering and couldn't

  May 21, 2009

• Social networking isn't for sex offenders, silly

  Chris KosterMissouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Thursday that 373 sex offenders were recently purged from MySpace and their info shipped off to the Missouri Highway Patrol. Uh, you might be a couple of years late. I mean, who uses, MySpace anymore? Other than sex offenders. "I will continue to aggressively pursue any avenue sex offenders use to threaten the safety of our children," Koster said in a statement. Psst. Everyone is on Facebook and Twitter now.

  June 19, 2009

• Kansas Supreme Court upholds conviction of woman involved in the murder of lobbyist

  Kimberly Danielle SharpThe Kansas Capitol hasn't been the same without self-appointed homeless lobbyist and registered sex offender David Owen. Three years ago, I profiled Owen in the midst of lawmakers' sex-offender hysteria while Owen -- convicted of possessing child pornography in 1998 -- was walking the halls, which were often filled with children. Owen wanted strict penalties for sex offenders, but his mission was to send every homeless person home. If that meant destroying homeless camps t

  June 23, 2009

• Alleged incest victim speaks to KMBC

  KMBC's Peggy Breit obtained an on-camera interview with the daughter Danial Rinehart allegedly subjected to an incestuous relationship.KMBC.comAshley RinehartAshley Rinehart, 19, says she bore four children by her father. Three died. A boy is in foster care. Rinehart told KMBC that she hoped to gain custody of the child. "My son is everything," she said. "He means the world."Danial Rinehart is being held on in Cass County on charges of murder, incest, statutory rape, child endangerment and aband

  July 23, 2009

• Parkville man convicted of possessing child porn ... and with a photo of himself in a diaper

  David D. Liberty​David D. Liberty loves young boys. Really young. Like 4-years-old. Or as old as 12 (but only "sometimes"). But he was specific on his desires: "I LUV LIL BOYS 5 to 10 n diapers the best." The 50-year-old from Parkville was convicted of promoting child pornography and eight counts possession of child porn. Liberty could lose his liberty for up to 71 years. His sentencing is scheduled for September 24.Platte County prosecutors say Liberty wrote about enjoying "lap dances" from a

  July 29, 2009

• Letters from the week
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  August 6, 2009

• Reporter's Notebook: Kansas was the first state to charge (and screw up) a John Doe warrant

  Kansas Department of CorrectionsDouglas Belt​This week's feature story details the first case in Wyandotte County that was charged against the DNA profile of an unidentified individual, in May 2001. Prosecutors all over the country have used this technique -- using a coded DNA profile in lieu of a name on charging documents -- in cases where time is constrained by statutes of limitations. But 10 years before the Wyandotte County case, another Kansas prosecutor paved the way for this new use of

  August 19, 2009

• Prison sex between staffer and inmate in Topeka ends in abortion, Cap-Journal reports

  ​A plumbing teacher at the Topeka Correctional Facility knocked up an inmate, after striking a deal to trade her drugs for oral sex, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported Sunday. The deal didn't go down as planned.Anastacio "Ted" Gallardo allegedly forced inmate Tracy Keith to have sex with him in a storage facility in 2007, the Cap-Journal reported. Gallardo impregnated Keith, who later got an abortion. Gallardo wasn't the only prison staffer allegedly crossing the line, according to the Cap-Jo

  October 5, 2009

• Two rapes in two weeks near Waldo

  Two rapes in two weeks have Kansas City police believing the same man is responsible, The Kansas City Star reports. In each case, the rapist tied up the victim using clothing and forced her to bathe after the sexual assault. The first assault occurred Sept. 29 in the 7500 block of Summit Street in Waldo. The second occurred Sunday in the 100 block of East 78th Terrace, a few blocks outside the neighborhood. Both women were home alone. The Star reports that police don't have a good description of

  October 13, 2009

• Settlement reached in child sex abuse case naming former KC bishop

  ​According to Louisiana's the Advocate, a settlement of $225,000 has been reached in a child sex abuse case naming former Kansas City auxiliary bishop Joseph Sullivan. After Kansas City, Sullivan went on to become bishop of Baton Rouge, from 1974 until his death in 1982.The settlement money goes to Glenn Hymel, 45, of Houston, who claimed he met Sullivan while in seminary school for minors, and the older man followed him from school to school sexually abusing him for several years.Before t

  October 15, 2009

• Man accused of drugging and photographing young girls

  James Phillip "Phil" Edwards ​If the reports about James Phillip "Phil" Edwards are true, then I wouldn't accept ice cream from the guy. A federal grand jury indicted the 60-year-old Edwards yesterday on child pornography charges. Federal prosecutors allege that Edwards advertised child porn on the Internet May 20 and attempted to distribute child porn on the Internet on June 19. He's also accused of possessing child porn. That's all bad but the report in today's Kansas City Star is so much

  October 22, 2009

• 'Uncle' Ed back in jail

  "Uncle" Ed Muscare​"Uncle" Ed Muscare is back in jail. Midtown Miscreant points out a TV news report out of Florida that the former children's show host and registered sex offender violated his probation by using the Internet and also by moving to South Carolina without telling the sheriff's department. Definitely problematic for sex offenders."Uncle" Ed had been posting bizarre videos to YouTube, disappeared but returned this past July. Muscare was arrested in 1986 for molesting a 14-year-old

  October 26, 2009

• Precious

  November 5, 2009

• Shocking but not surprising: Father and sons accused of raping family women

  Burrel Mohler Sr​Burrell Edward Mohler Jr​I'd like to say that I was shocked by this week's story of five men charged with sexually abusing young girls and a boy in their own family. But after what we learned in January about Danial Rinehart and the allegations that he impregnated one of his daughters four times (only one of the children survived), I'm not surprised by the allegations against the Mohler men. David Mohler​Jared Leroy Mohler​I can't be anymore. It'd be naive to think that

  November 12, 2009

• Sixth man accused in Lafayette County sex abuse case

  ​Add Larry Kidd to the list of men suspected of sexually abusing young children in Lafayette County. Authorities say the 55-year-old Kansas City man is an "associate" of the Mohler family, and they suspect him of raping a child younger than 14. Last night, he was taken to the Lafayette County jail. He has not been formally charged.  KMBC Channel 9 has video of Kidd (see the screen shot from KMBC above) arriving at a jail. Also last night, police wrapped up their investigation at a farm ne

  November 13, 2009

• Northeast man charged with statutory rape

  Hussein A. Ahmed​Jackson County prosecutors charged Hussein A. Ahmed last week with allegedly attempting to have sex with his step daughter when she was younger than 14-years-old, according to the Jackson County's Prosecutor's Office.Prosecutors say Ahmed, 27, married his late brother's wife and cared for the brood. He's charged with first attempting to have sex with step-daughter sometime in 2004, when she less than 12-years-old.In the first half of 2007, Ahmed allegedly tried again, this tim

  November 17, 2009

• Mohler Jr.'s daughters: Dad made them kidnap, kill man

  Burrell Edward Mohler Jr​The daughters of Burrell Mohler Jr. told authorities that their father made them kidnap and kill a man, KCTV 5 reports. The TV station cites a warrant alleging that Mohler Jr. and his daughters stalked a 300-pound man from Independence Center to his home and then lured him into a trap and took him away to Mohler Jr.'s father's farm in Bates City.According to KCTV 5, one of the girls claimed she stabbed the man in the back and her father stabbed him in the front, killin

  November 17, 2009

• Police find apparent incest porn at Mohler Sr.'s home

  Burrel Mohler, Sr.​Fans of Donnie Darko will remember when members of the fire department sift through motivational speaker Jim Cunningham's burnt-up house and find what's described as a "kiddie porn dungeon." Well, we at The Pitch are sad to report there's such a thing as an incest porn dungeon, too.Fox 4 is reporting what police found when they searched 77-year-old Burrel Mohler Sr.'s home, where he lived in basement exile. His wife reportedly found some of his alleged deviant-porn stash and

  November 18, 2009