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  Mo. Ex-Mayor Faces Trial in Internet Child Sex Sting

KHQA
March 10, 2008

http://www.khqa.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=105869

NEOSHO, MO. — A former small-town Missouri mayor and pastor faces trial over allegations he made sexual advances in an Internet chat room to a detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.

Allen Kauffman's lawyer said the 62-year-old expects to plead not guilty at an arraignment set for April 14 by an associate circuit judge.

The judge ruled Monday after a preliminary hearing that prosecutors had presented enough evidence for the case to go to trial.

During the hearing, prosecutors dropped one of four counts of felony enticement of a child because of an apparent error in the date given for one set of alleged sexual comments.

No trial date has been set for the remaining three charges.

Kauffman has resigned as mayor of Collins, a town of about 200 people in St. Clair County.

 
 

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