Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Federal grand jury indicts former Pineville youth minister on child pornography charge

A federal grand jury today indicted former Pineville First Baptist Church youth minister Ryan Daniel Crawford, 32, for coercing a nine-year-old girl to "engage in sexually explicit conduct" to create child pornography in McDonald County.

What Crawford did may have even been worse.

Crawford was already facing six felony charges- five counts of child molestation and one count of sexual misconduct- in McDonald County Circuit Court. Court records indicate the crimes took place in December 2017 at Crawford's home at the same time period designated in the federal grand jury indictment.

According to the probable cause statement in the McDonald County case, Crawford admitted having an "addiction to child pornography," and having been involved in sexual misconduct with children for some time.








When he was arrested, he had pornographic photos of a McDonald County child on his phone, according to court documents. Crawford was originally charged with one count of child molestation, but interviews with children at the Children's Center in Joplin revealed four more victims, according to the probable cause statement.

The case was investigated by the McDonald County Sheriff's Office and the Pineville Police Department.

A pre-trial conference in the McDonald County case is scheduled for April 29.

Judge John LePage issued five full orders of child protection against Crawford a month after the original charge and renewed the protection orders in January.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my sweet jesus!

We need to build a wall!

Unknown said...

Can't trust anyone anytime anywhere.

Anonymous said...

So, I'm all for building the wall, but what on earth does it have to do with this particular situation?

Anonymous said...

The wall is needed to protect us from criminals, predators and such. We will be safe if we just build the wall. Think about it.
We would be better served if all the fanfare was directed toward all the criminals and predators that are born here. Our neighbors, our kids teachers, others drivers on the streets, etc..

We need protection from our own citizens more than Mexicans.

Anonymous said...

Idiot.
Maybe look at this way, we have enough to worry about without having to worry about Mexicans too. See how that works?

Anonymous said...

Let’s make child abuse a priority, throw 5 billion at that.