Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Former Joplin police officer pleads not guilty to child sex charge

Former Joplin police officer Gary McKinney waived the formal reading of his indictment and pleaded not guilty to a sexual exploitation of minors charge during a three-minute hearing this morning in U. S. District Court in Springfield.

McKinney, 43, who also served as an officer with the Webb City and Duquesne police departments and owned Gary McKinney Plumbing in Joplin, is being held without bond as he awaits trial.

In a related case, Anthony Helsel, 31, Joplin, who is also being held without bond an a sexual exploitation of children charge, waived the reading of his indictment and pleaded not guilty.


A scheduling hearing for both men will be held 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, November 6.

The probable cause affidavit alleged McKinney exchanged child pornography with Helsel, had an interest in setting up streaming sex shows involving underage girls and had asked Helsel to provide him with shoes and socks that had been worn by the four-year-old girl whom Helsel allegedly had sex with in some of the pornography he shared with McKinney.

McKinney also expressed an interest in meeting with the four-year-old himself and engaging in a sex act that would involve her feet, according to the detention motion filed by Assistant U. S. Attorney Ami Harshad Miller.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sick o. I hope his wife has the guts to divorce him. How embarrasing for his family.
He needs put away.