Feds: Miami University professor used 'usasexguide,' traveled to Missouri to have sex with minor

Sarah Brookbank | Cincinnati Enquirer

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A Miami University professor was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday and accused of traveling to Missouri to have sex with a someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said.

Kevin Connor Armitage, 52, was charged with traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct after prosecutors said he traveled to Kansas City, Missouri, to have sex with a girl who was actually a covert FBI employee.

Armitage was a professor of individualized studies at Miami University in Oxford. A Miami University spokeswoman said that Armitage is no longer employed.

"Miami is appalled and shocked to learn of these allegations of illicit sexual behavior. Any conduct that would harm children is especially abhorrent," a statement from the university said. "Under no circumstance is this type of unlawful behavior tolerated by our campus community."

According to an archived version of Miami University's website, his areas of expertise were North American environmental history and other environmental issues.

Prosecutors said an FBI online covert employee was monitoring public message threads on a website that hosts a discussion forum on prostitution. The website is under the domain usasexguide, documents said.

According to court documents, Armitage had 576 postings that detail his prior experiences with prostitutes in Ohio, Arizona, Tijuana, Kansas and Colorado.

Armitage was looking for a recommendation in the Kansas City area, according to federal authorities.

An FBI agent posted: "I may be able to hook you up with the digits for a young spinner, if that’s your thing.”

A message, allegedly from Armitage said a “young spinner is what I live for."

The number given to Armitage was a different FBI online covert employee, who was posing as a 14-year-old female, prosecutors said.

"Armitage agreed to meet the 14-year-old’s cousin at a restaurant on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. An FBI undercover employee, posing as the cousin, met Armitage at the restaurant and he was arrested," prosecutors said.