Missouri man admits to sex with girl transported by his grandma, mom

A prior sex offender in Fulton,Missouri has been sentenced for sex crimes involving a 13-year-old Alabama girl who was brought to Missouri by the man’s mother and grandmother.

22-year-old Michael James Collins was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison without parole.

Investigators say Collins met the girl on a dating website in July 2017. At the time, he was a registered sex offender on probation for a previous conviction for sexual misconduct involving a child.

He admitted in November that he paid his grandmother $400 to bring the girl from Alabama to Missouri. His mother was with his grandmother when they picked up the girl.

Collins says he had sex with the girl in a van while the women were drivig him to and from work and the Community Supervision Center in Fulton.

Collins and the girl communicated with each other from July to December 2017 via cell phone, Facebook Messenger and other apps, which was a violation of Collins’s probation. Collins accessed the internet using his cell phone as well as his mother’s cell phone. Collins and the child victim talked about having sex, had phone sex and engaged in “sexting.” Collins’s mother and the victim also communicated regularly using Facebook Messenger.