By The Associated Press
From The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, MO. —
A former western Missouri man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for prostituting his girlfriend’s young daughter.
Thirty-year-old Todd Barkau, formerly of Blue Springs and now of New York, admitted in September that he began having sex with the 12-year-old in 2000 after showing her pornography.
Barkau advertised the girl as a dominatrix from January 2002 to February 2005, mainly through a website claiming she was 19 or 20 years old. The girl ran away in 2005.
As part of his sentence Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Barkau was ordered to pay $200,000 for future counseling for the girl.
The girl’s mother was sentenced in May to 15 years in prison and $200,000 in restitution.
