Story Published:
Mar 10, 2008 at 10:59 AM CST
Story Updated:
Mar 10, 2008 at 10:59 AM CST
NEOSHO, Mo. -- A former village leader and pastor faces trial on charges that he made sexual advances in an Internet chat room to a detective posing as a 13-year-old girl. An associate circuit judge ruled Monday after a preliminary hearing that there’s enough evidence for a trial for Allen Kauffman of Collins.
During the hearing, prosecutors dropped one of four counts of felony enticement of a child. They found an apparent error in the date given for one set of sexual comments that the detective attributed to Kauffman.
Kauffman’s first appearance in circuit court is scheduled for April 14. A circuit judge will have to schedule the trial.
Kauffman resigned as chairman of Collins’ town board, a position in a village that’s equivalent to a mayor of a town or city. Collins has about 200 citizens. It’s in southern St. Clair County on Missouri 13 at U.S. 54.
