An overheard conversation by a teacher at a Lawrence middle school led to multiple sex …

photo by: Wyandotte County Jail Kenneth Wayne Soap Last winter, as four pre-teen girls at Lawrence’s Liberty Memorial Central Middle School were discussing a man calling and sending them messages on Snapchat, a teacher happened to overhear them and alerted the school resource officer. That overheard conversation — about naked pictures and obscene solicitation to 11- and 12-year-olds — led to an investigation of a 43-year-old Lawrence man, which turned up even more disturbing allegations of illicit interactions with still more children, including the exchange of pornographic photos and videos for money and the man’s demands that the young girls call him “daddy.” These and other details are laid out in the affidavit supporting the arrest of Kenneth Wayne Soap, whose address at the time was listed on the Douglas County Jail booking log as the Lawrence Community Shelter. Soap was arrested on Aug. 19, as the Journal-World reported, in connection with a felony theft charge in Platte County, Missouri. He has now been charged with one count of aggravated human trafficking, two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, two counts of aggravated trading in child pornography and one count of sexual extortion. All of the charges are felonies
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