he spends roughly ten years incarcerated at fort leavenworth. when he gets released in 2011, he is sent back based on his military home of record, the closest place that they could send him to with a halfway house with probation supervision is rapid city, south dakota. and at this point, facebook was now relevant. i was in my room supposed to be doing homework, but i was on my cell phone, on facebook, scrolling through the news feed. a message from kevin stoeser popped up. i didn t think anything of it,
i went to school the next day, and a couple of my girlfriends in my grade had said this kevin stoeser guy keeps contacting me. i was like what? it was basically the same thing, like do you know tory deal, i went to high school with her mom and would ask them to hang out, continue to tell them how beautiful they were. i said seriously, he s saying those things to you? so i asked for the number and i had said you need to stop texting my daughter and her friends. that s just not cool. you know, they are 20 years younger than you. you just don t do that. he responded sorry, i understand, no hard feelings. i thought that was the end of it. it was shortly after that when she told me kevin wasn t
and adults do not engage in such activity, this relationship is special, this child is different, this child is capable of making decisions that other children cannot make. and this carries on for about six weeks, and then kevin says how about we meet in person, give me your address. let s meet up. and then out of the blue, kevin shows up one day. stoeser knows that his sexual interests in children are abberant. he understands this is wrong, this is deviant. nevertheless, he tries to present as if this behavior is occurring in the context of consent. now, of course, 12 to 15-year-old girls cannot consent to engaging in sexual activity with an adult. there was only one sexual encounter between shannon and kevin.
their daughter. his wife was a juvenile. he was 24 years old. he was committing a crime. he was breaking the law and had to get her parents to give him special permission to marry a young woman who wasn t of the legal age to get married. that was the first evidence of his predilection for pedophilia. kevin was very proud to be a father. he felt very blessed to be a father but he was very emotionally and verbally abusive and he was having extramarital affairs. and because of his activities, she took the baby, she left. kevin stoeser is a good example of what the field refers to as travelers. these are typically men who seek out vulnerable children online and they begin to worm their way into these children s lives. this was back in the day before facebook, before a lot of
this as a form of blackmail. it s a compulsion that they fight, they know it s reprehensible, they know that people hate what they do, but it s a compulsion and a narcissistic desire that they have to satisfy. these guys are cunning, they are smart. he manipulated her so well that she even went and told her mother this is the guy for me, this is my road to happiness. she finally confesses hey, i spent the last couple days with him, we ve had sex, we have done this and that. mom goes ballistic. they start arguing. voices started getting raised. they get into a very heated argument. mom then decides she s going to call the police because her young 15-year-old daughter has been sexually assaulted. she calls the police and reports rape. interestingly, mr. stoeser was described by the police officer as not asking any questions, as not even appearing concerned whatsoever with the