KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Ottawa, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court to the attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child.
This conviction is the result of 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.
Shane Allan Childers, 32, of Olathe, Kan., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright this afternoon to all of the charges contained in a March 10, 2009, federal indictment.
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