Man seeking state police job takes polygraph test, gets 20 years in prison
A pre-employment polygraph examination for a state police job did not go well for Cedric Lovejoy.
He not only wound up without the Missouri State Highway Patrol position he was seeking but, as of Thursday, was sentenced to a 20-year term in federal prison, the Kansas City Star reports.
During the 2012 test, Lovejoy confessed to the examiner that he had filmed a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old, federal prosecutors said. A subsequent search of his home computer, weeks later, turned up the video Lovejoy reportedly made in July 2009 on his cellphone.
Court documents say Lovejoy, when asked if he had ever committed a crime, admitted to the examiner he had “engaged in sexual acts with three minor females and recorded the acts on several different occasions,” the Associated Press reports.
Now 29, Lovejoy was charged with two counts of sexually exploiting a child, the article says.
He pleaded guilty in December in federal court in Springfield to using a minor to produce child pornography, a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Missouri said at the time. The minimum mandatory sentence was 15 years.
An earlier KY3.com story provides additional details.
