KANSAS CITY (MO)
KMBC
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Police have linked a child enticement investigation in the Park Hill School District to a tip from a Catholic church in Platte County.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Kansas City Catholic Diocese said that on May 13, the pastor at St. Therese parish was alerted to a parishioner’s alleged behavior involving minors receiving gifts of iPhones for the purpose of exploitation.
Police said the teenagers were offered phones and other incentives to do or look at sexually explicit acts. Police said there are at least six victims in the case.
Investigators said the man used the grounds at Prairie Point Elementary School to try to meet one child. Another alleged meeting spot is Riverside’s Edge Gymnastics, which also alerted police after suspicious behavior.
Edge Gymnastics said the man didn’t work at the gym, didn’t volunteer there and none of the employees knew him. The manager said the man would come to the gym on Saturday nights during the open gym period this winter with a group of seven or eight boys.
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