Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Wadsworth appeal set for Sept. 19

The Missouri Southern District Court of Appeals will hear convicted sex offender Donal R. Wadsworth's appeal of his conviction in Jasper County Circuit Court on seven counts of enticing a minor.
Wadsworth, 46, Fayetteville, Ark., is one of those who was captured after arranging to meet an underaged girl over the Internet. The underaged girl was actually Diamond Police officer Jim Murray.
Wadsworth, as you might remember from the Feb. 16 Turner Report, was arrested by the Fayetteville Police Department on almost exactly the same charge following an investigation conducted in nearly exactly the same way.
As I wrote in February:

According to a report last week on KHOG, Fayetteville, Wadsworth was trolling the Internet even while he was being tried here on seven counts of enticement of a child.
"The investigation was primarily done online, and officials said that Wadsworth engaged the undercover officer in sexual conversations several times over the past two months," the KHOG report said.
The station quoted Fayetteville Police Sgt. Bill Phelan as saying, "He showed up at 12:30 a.m. to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, and was taken into custody by an officer."

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