WICHITA, KS—A Canadian man has been
charged with picking up a 12-year-old girl in El Dorado, Kansas, and taking her
out of state for the purpose of having sex with her, U.S. Attorney Barry
Grissom said today.
Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, 20,
Bewdley, Ontario, is charged with one count of transporting a minor out of
state for the purpose of having sex. A criminal complaint filed today in U.S.
District Court in Wichita alleges that on May 31, the girl’s father reported to
the El Dorado Police Department that she was missing from home.
Investigators tracked the girl’s cell
phone to an area near Potterville, Michigan. At about 2:45 p.m. on June 1,
police located McGill’s car on the shoulder of a dirt road in rural Michigan.
He was arrested and the girl was taken into protective custody. Investigators
learned McGill had met the girl online playing “World of Warcraft” and had
struck up a relationship with her.
If convicted, McGill faces a maximum
penalty of not less than 10 years and not more than life. The FBI and the El
Dorado Police Department investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart is
prosecuting.
In all cases, defendants are presumed
innocent until and unless proven guilty. The indictments merely contain
allegations of criminal conduct.
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