Tag: Missouri

  • School Nurse Arrested For Having Sexual Relationship With 15-Year-Old Student

    School Nurse Arrested For Having Sexual Relationship With 15-Year-Old Student

    A high school nurse in Kennett, Missouri is in police custody after allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of the school’s students, Ledger-Enquirer News reported.

    Kennett Police Department says that Candice Elizabeth Johnson sexually assaulted the 15-year-old over 12 times over the course of four months, usually at a Super 8 motel. In an interview with the police, the teenager claims that he and the 26-year-old began meeting up for sex in October, after sending each other sexually explicit photos months beforehand. According to an affidavit obtained by The Kansas City Star, “Johnson talked about having a future together and [the student] had hung out with Johnson and her son.”

    On January 26th, officials at Kennett High School interviewed the victim and other witnesses after being told that a nurse was having intimate encounters with a student. Days later, the school’s principal notified authorities. On January 31st, Johnson reached out to police by phone, but refused to turn herself in. She was found hiding at her mother’s house the next day, and Kennett Police Department officers made the arrest.

    Candice Elizabeth Johnson has been charged with second-degree statutory rape and sexual contact with a student. She was later released on a $40,000 bond. Johnson has since been ordered to to avoid contact with anybody under the age of 18, and has been placed on a leave of absence.

    Johnson is the second Kennett High School employee within the year to be arrested for having a sexual relationship with a student. 24-year-old Lindsey Marshall, a Spanish teacher, was arrested two weeks prior, and was charged with two counts of sexual contact with a student.

  • Cops Searching For 5 Inmates Who Escaped Missouri Jail Through Plumbing Pipes

    Cops Searching For 5 Inmates Who Escaped Missouri Jail Through Plumbing Pipes

    Police are on the hunt for five inmates who escaped the St. Francois County Detention Center in Farmington, Missouri, through plumbing pipes, per The Daily Beast

    The suspects, identified as Kelly McSean, Dakota Pace, Aaron Sebastian, LuJuan Tucker, and Michael Wilkins, reportedly found an entryway to the jail’s rooftop through the vents and pipes of the building’s plumbing system.

    The group removed their orange jumpsuits and were caught on surveillance footage dressed in their undergarments,

    “white thermal leggings, white boxers and/or basketball shorts and white T-shirts, except for Tucker, who was wearing a black shirt,”

    the sheriff’s department told the outlet.

    Surveillance video also shows the inmates taking off in a dark gray 2009 Toyota Scion with Missouri temporary plates and no front tag from the Centene Corporation’s parking lot at approximately 7 p.m., reports note. They were last seen on camera driving southbound, according to the sheriff’s department. 

    All five men were being held on felony warrants and three of the inmates — Tucker, Sebastian, and McSean — are known sex offenders, authorities said per NBC News. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Priest Sentenced To Five Years After Being Caught With Thousands Of Images Of Child Pornography 

    Priest Sentenced To Five Years After Being Caught With Thousands Of Images Of Child Pornography 

    A priest has been investigated after he left Nude pictures of himself on a Missouri church printer, according to The Kansas City Star. The discovery caused an internal investigation into his devices. 

    A St. Louis private technology company discovered footage of 12 underaged children conducting sexual acts after reviewing one of the devices from the church. The company informed the church, and the FBI was later requested to investigate. 

    On May 25, 2021, the FBI got a search warrant nearly a week after the explicit photos were discovered on the printer, officials say. 10 of the priest’s devices were searched by investigators and they discovered over 6,000 inappropriate photos showcasing

    “child sexual abuse.”

    There were also

    “two graphic PowerPoint presentations”

    discovered. 

    On Jan. 10, the priest, James T. Beighlie, 72, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography, says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri. 

    According to reports, the graphic PowerPoint presentations were made back in 2009 as it has been revised more than 200 times and it was last accessed in 2015. The PowerPoint contained a plethora of slides loaded with

    “child erotica.” 

    Officials say they also discovered files that contained child pornography on other devices. Beighlie confessed to having child porn from the web between May 2008 and May 2021. The priest has been instructed to spend 5 years behind bars as well as

    “pay $4,750 in restitution to an affected child and pay $22,000 in special assessments that will be divided among other victims,”

    reports The Kansas City Star. Once he is released, be will be supervised for the remainder of his life. 

    A minor wrote in a letter to Matthew T. Schelp, U.S. District Judge,

    “It’s depressing and sickening to know that people were looking at images and videos of my online sexual abuse when I was a little girl and that they were getting pleasure from it – my abuse.” 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Woman Arrested After Tracking Down Her Stolen Vehicle and Fatally Shooting Two Men Who Allegedly Stole Her Car, Reports Say 

    Woman Arrested After Tracking Down Her Stolen Vehicle and Fatally Shooting Two Men Who Allegedly Stole Her Car, Reports Say 

    A Missouri woman, Demesha Coleman, has been apprehended after tracking down her stolen vehicle and murdering two men outside of a gas station for allegedly stealing her car, reports Fox. The 35-year-old woman was charged with several counts including a count of assault and three counts of armed criminal action following the fatal shooting of 49-year-old Joseph Farrar and 19-year-old Darius Jackson. 

    Officials discovered the 49-year-old next to a gas pump as he had a gunshot wound in his torso, while the 19-year-old also suffered from a gunshot wound to the torso as he laid beside the vehicle. Another man was also shot in the head; however, he survived, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It’s unclear, which of the men, or if any of them actually stole the car. 

    On Wednesday evening, the woman approached a Hyundai Tucson at a St. Louis gas station with a man who carried a weapon, officials said after looking through surveillance footage. Coleman then opened the door of the vehicle with a gun and began to shoot. She informed officials that she went to the location to retrieve her vehicle that was stolen. Reports added that prior to this incident, she had no criminal record. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Eighteen Students and Three Teachers Injured After Two Pit Bulls Entered School Playground and Attacked Them During Recess 

    Eighteen Students and Three Teachers Injured After Two Pit Bulls Entered School Playground and Attacked Them During Recess 

    On Tuesday, students and teachers have been injured after two pit bulls managed to get onto a Missouri school playground amid recess. According to PEOPLE, three teachers and eighteen students were injured during the attack. 

    The 5th and 6th-grade students were in the Willard Intermediate South school yard when a pair of pit bulls entered the unfenced area and began to pounce on the victims. The teachers who tried to aid were then attacked. 

    Luckily, the Springfield News-Leader reported that the majority of the injuries were minimal. Three teachers and students were bitten and suffered from other injuries, which required medical attention. While other students were injured due to the chaos that came about as the students tried to run from the dogs. 

    Animal control informed KYTV that one dog failed to be vaccinated for rabies, while the owners couldn’t provide proof of rabies vaccination for the second dog. The dogs were surrendered by the owners and were later euthanized. 

    The day following the attack, the school did an indoor recess. Reports say many students returned to school the next day.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?