Navy recruiter admits trying to pay $80 to have unprotected sex with an 11-year-old girl

Shane Allan Childers pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to offering to pay $80 to have sex with an 11-year-old girl. Of course, this was part of a sting. But the way the 32-year-old Olathe man got busted was a thing of sheer stupidity.

Childers was a naval recruiter at the time, and used a government computer at the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Lenexa to respond to a Craigslist ad for sex with a child. He also used his Navy e-mail address and government issued cell phone. It apparently never occurred to him that the government might be watching.

Childers even dressed to impress once the transaction was set, wearing his Navy uniform (but taking

off the shirt) to the door of the house used in the

sting.

Inside, Childers paid an undercover agent $60 to have sex with

an 11-year-old girl. He threw in an extra $20 so he wouldn’t have to

wear a condom.