TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas man could face up to 30 years in federal prison
after admitting that he drove to Missouri to meet what he believed was a woman
willing to sell her 10-year-old daughter for sex.
Federal prosecutors say 64-year-old Michael David Mitchell of Ottawa pleaded
guilty Tuesday to interstate travel to engage in unlawful sexual conduct.
Sentencing is April 24th.
Investigators received information that Mitchell was seeking a woman with a
minor child that he could make his sex slave. Prosecutors say Mitchell
communicated with an undercover investigator posing as a broker who could
connect Mitchell to a mother willing to sell her child.
Mitchell admitted in his plea that in June 2017 he drove to Independence,
Missouri, to meet a woman and brought $5,000 to pay her.
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