Neosho sex offender pleads guilty to child pornography charge

A Neosho sex offender pleaded guilty to child pornography charges this morning in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

No sentencing date has been scheduled for Benjamin H. Cole, 38. Judge David P. Rush ordered a presentencing investigation.

Tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force and the Neosho Police Department to execute a search warrant at Cole's home August 16.








Investigators found pornographic images of children on his cell phone.

Cole was placed on the sex offenders' list after pleading guilty June 16, 2005, after pleading guilty to statutory sodomy. The victim was a seven-year-old girl.