Eastern District of Missouri | Missouri man admits he recorded sex with minors

ST. LOUIS – A Linn County, Missouri man admitted Monday to having sexual contact with a minor.

Russell Alan Pirkey, 54, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to sexual exploitation of a child.

Pirkey admitted using his cell phone to record himself having sexual contact with a 10-year-old girl. Pirkey’s crime was discovered on April 8, 2023, when Brookfield police were contacted with concerns about his contact with the victim.

Pirkey has also agreed to forfeit a mobile phone, a tablet and various electronic storage devices seized by police during the investigation.

Pirkey is expected to be sentenced on January 14, 2025. The sexual exploitation charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years.

The FBI, Brookfield Police Department and the Linn County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Chapman is prosecuting the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children online , and to better locate, arrest and prosecute those who exploit children via the Internet. rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.justice.gov/psc.