Naval recruiter sentenced for trying to pay $80 for unprotected sex with 11-year-old
A federal judge sentenced a former Naval recruiter yesterday to 15 years in prison without parole for attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child.
Allan Childers pleaded guilty in July to
trying to pay $80 to have sex with an 11-year-old girl. Of course, this was part
of a sting.
Childers, a 32-year-old Olathe man, was a naval recruiter at
the time of the offense, and he used his government-issued computer at the Armed Forces Recruiting
Station in Lenexa to reply to a Craigslist ad for sex with a child.
He also used his Navy e-mail address and government-issued cell phone.
Childers even showed up to the rendezvous wearing his Navy uniform (but taking
off the shirt). Inside the house used in the sting, Childers paid an undercover agent $60 to have sex with
an 11-year-old girl and threw in an extra $20 so he wouldn’t have to
wear a condom.
Childers also admitted that he had used prostitutes since he served in Hong Kong in 1998.
The bio on Shane Childers’ Facebook page read:
I am currently in the navy 12 years so far and 8 till i retire. married
for 11 years so far and going strong, currently have 4 kids, my life!
Childers lists “family” among his interests. He also drops the ages
of his children — 10, 7, 5 and 3 — and posts photos of himself and a
woman under the title “love of my life.”
