WICHITA, Kansas (AP) Seven men are under arrest including a Garden Plain teacher after a sex sting this weekend. Wichita Police say they started setting up the sting a month ago, and it began on Friday night. Over the course of two days, seven men thought they were going to meet a young girl for sex, but instead they wound up in jail. The seven face electronic solicitation charges and six of the seven suspects also face charges of human trafficking. Four others could also be charged.
Police say the suspects thought they were meeting with a girl for sex not realizing they were actually communicating online with a detective from the Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit. The teacher is suspended pending the results of the investigation.
Detective are putting their cases together and formal charges won’t happen until the end of the week at the earliest. Police plan to talk to both the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office as well as the US Attorney’s Office to decide if the cases will proceed in state or federal court.