Kansas Woman Gets Prison for Child Sex Crimes

(Wellington, Kansas) In June 2010, a couple from Mulvane, John and Stephanie Carr, were charged with committing sex crimes against a child.

Reportedly, the Carrs coerced a child into oral-genital contact for the purpose of making and distributing photos.

This week, 28-year-old Stephanie Dawn Carr pleaded guilty and was sentenced on two counts of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child.

Carr appeared at the courthouse with her court-appointed attorney Elaine Esparza.

After being sentenced by Judge William Mott to 136 months, or just over 11 years, in prison, Carr began to cry and ring her hands at the podium. An upward departure motion was presented by Sumner County District Attorney Evan Watson and accepted by Mott.

In the motion, filed at the courthouse, Watson requested the departure from sentencing standards based on the “fiduciary relationship between victim and defendant.”

John Wayne Carr, 31, was sentenced in December to life in prison.