KANSAS CITY (MO)
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Kansas City, MO – infoZine – Gene Porter, Deputy United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, presented the Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award today to Kansas City Police Detective Maggie McGuire for her work on behalf of protecting children, most notably her investigation of convicted Roman Catholic priest Shawn Ratigan and Bishop Robert Finn.
The award ceremony was part of an annual event hosted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and VictimNet, a coalition of victim service providers and others committed to meeting the needs of crime victims in Jackson County, in conjunction with the observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. This year’s theme, “30 Years: Restoring the Balance of Justice,” honors the extraordinary achievements we have made on behalf of crime victims since the passage of the Victims of Crime Act in 1984.
McGuire is a long-time detective with the Kansas City, MO, Police Department and a former task force officer on the FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force.
Porter praised McGuire’s “untiring and relentless work” in the investigation of Ratigan and Finn.
Ratigan was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison without parole after pleading guilty to four counts of producing child pornography and one count of attempting to produce child pornography over a period of nearly six years. Each of those five counts involved the sexual exploitation of a separate child victim, ranging in age from two years old to 12 years old at the time of the offenses.
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