A convicted pedophile’s grandmother accepted $400 to go and collect a 13 year-old girl for him to abuse.

Michael James Collins, 21, admitted paying the woman the cash to go and pick up the child after he met her on a dating website last December during a court hearing Monday.

Shockingly, Collins’ mother also accompanied his grandmother on the trip, which saw the youngster transported across state lines from her home in Alabama to Collins’ place in Fulton, Missouri.

Michael James Collins, 21, paid his grandmother $400 to go and collect a 13 year-old girl for him to abuse (Picture: Calloway County Sheriff’s Office)

A press release issued by the Western District of Missouri Department of Justice laid bare further collaboration between Collins and his female relatives.




It explained: ‘Collins’s grandmother and mother also transported the child victim between the Fulton residence and Collins’s residence at the Community Supervision Center when they were taking Collins back and forth to work.’

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Neither woman was arrested, nor charged with any crime – even though Collins was convicted of a felony sex offense for sexting a 14 year-old girl in April 2016, almost a year-and-a-half before his latest offense took place.

It is unclear why no action was taken against the pair.

Collins’ latest crime, which saw him admit transporting a minor under 14 across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity, began when he made online contact with the girl in July last year.

Collins has been held at Calloway County Jail ahead of his sentencing hearing, which will see him sent to prison for up to 20 years (Picture: Google Maps)

The pair chatted on Facebook Messenger and other apps, despite such internet usage violating the terms of Collins’ earlier probation.

They met in person in December, with the child’s mother reporting her missing shortly after Collins’ mom and grandmother acted as a taxi service to bring the victim to her abuser.

Cops were able to track the child down using a cellphone ping, and she was rescued, before Collins was arrested.

The pervert faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced, with a date for that hearing yet to be set.