ST. LOUIS (MO)
Riverfront Times
December 17, 2018
By Doyle Murphy
Former Dojo Pizza owner Loren Copp is scheduled to learn his fate the day after Christmas.
The 49-year-old is facing nine felony charges, including producing, attempting to produce and possessing child porn. The alleged victims included underage girls who stayed with him while their parents struggled with poverty and addiction.
He was the subject of an RFT cover story in December 2015.
An ex-pastor, Copp ran a karate studio, community center, rooming house and pizza restaurant out of a converted church in the Bevo Mill neighborhood. He represented himself in April during a bench trial in federal court, personally cross-examining girls who claim he took illicit photos and sexually abused them.
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