A registered Pedophile sex offender residing in Park Hills, Missouri, Reginald M Miller, confessed on Tuesday to abusing a 14-year-old kid and offering cash and marijuana in return for nude photographs.
Reginald M. Miller, 57, of Park Hills, Missouri, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in St. Louis for coercion and inducement of a juvenile as a repeat offender, soliciting of child pornography as a prior offender, and receiving child pornography as a prior offender.
Reginald M Miller confessed to assaulting the 14-year-old boy starting in 2023 by non-consensually touching his genitals. Miller provided the victim with beer and marijuana and compensated him in an effort to prevent him from reporting the molestation. Reginald M Miller subsequently proposed monetary compensation or marijuana to the victim in exchange for exposing himself during video calls. On January 4, 2024, Miller communicated via text to the victim, asserting that there was no escape from their “friendship,” according to the plea deal.
During Reginald M Miller’s sentencing on October 15, the U.S. Attorney’s office will seek a 40-year prison term.
In 1999, Reginald M Miller was convicted of the felony of first-degree endangerment of a child’s welfare and two misdemeanour charges of third-degree assault in St. Louis County Circuit Court, resulting in a sentence of incarceration and probation. In 2008, Miller was found guilty of counts of statutory sodomy in St. Louis Circuit Court and received a 16-year jail sentence.
The LaSalle Police Department, LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office, Park Hills Police Department and FBI’s St. Louis Division investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson 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 Criminal Division’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 via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
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