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Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, convicted sex predator.

Sex predator who terrorized girl on Facebook gets 30-year sentence

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 6:36pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A relentless Danish sex predator who used Facebook to stalk and threaten an 11-year-old Missouri girl likely will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison.

Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, 61, whose own lawyer described his crimes as "horrific" and "unspeakable," was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using multiple aliases and online accounts to extort the Buchanan County girl into making child pornography.

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Serial rapist gets 18 consecutive life sentences

Mark Morris, Tony Rizzo Kansas City Star

Last updated Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:12pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The pattern of Bernard Jackson's life was set when he was just 19.

Commit rape, go to prison, get out, then do it again.

But on Friday, a Jackson County judge tried to ensure that the 53-year-old Kansas City man also known as the "Waldo rapist" would never hurt another victim.

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16 charged in massive tax refund scam

Mark Morris Kansas City Star

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 8:26am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Schemes to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of millions of dollars in inflated tax refunds was alleged Thursday as authorities announced charges against 16 defendants from around the United States.

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New defendant, charges in sex torture case

Kansas City Star, Mark Morris

Last updated Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 9:15am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Federal prosecutors in Kansas City, Mo., announced a new defendant and fresh charges Wednesday in a south Missouri sex torture case.

The wife of the alleged ringleader of a scheme that purportedly held a young woman as a sex slave for years now faces charges of conspiracy, sex and forced labor trafficking and document servitude.

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Court rules cell phone is a computer in child-sex case

Kansas City Star, Mark Morris

Last updated Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 11:15am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Is an ordinary cell phone a computer?

Yes it is, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. If you use the cell phone to help transport a minor across state lines for illegal sex, a judge can sentence you to more prison time.

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