More child enticement charges filed in Boone County

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Boone County man was charged Friday with two counts of child enticement -- the latest in a string of defendants charged with similar crimes this week.

John Binu, 25, tried to meet with two 16-year-old girls on Thursday for sex after meeting them online, according to a probable cause statement. The girls were actually decoys, according to the statement.

Binu didn't deny that he planned to pay the girls and said he knew the person he met online represented herself as 16 years old.

Binu remained in the Boone County Jail on no bond Friday.

He was the latest in a string of men to be charged with similar child sex crimes in Boone County this week, including the former Missouri Department of Revenue general counsel Daniel Follett, 56. Other men arrested this week on similar charges are Ethan Deimeke, 27, of Auxvasse; David Burres, 32; Brice Morris, 34, of Columbia; Rollie Pogue, 29, of Moberly; Jose Jimenzez, 54, of Columbia; and Rifat Apurba, 56.