Former Centralia police officer sentenced eight years for trying to have sex with teen

CENTRALIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Former Centralia officer Clint Baer was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty in October, to try and have sex with a minor.

According to a release, Baer began talking to someone he believed to be the mother of a 14-year-old girl through a social networking site.  Over the course of several months, Baer exchanged sexually detailed and explicit text messages and phone calls, via social media, with her.  In Baer’s sexually explicit messages, he expressed his desire to engage in sexual activity with the 14-year old girl as well as the mother.  In reality, Baer was speaking with an undercover FBI agent.

After setting up a time and place for the incident to happen, Baer travelled from Centralia, Missouri, to Wentzville, Missouri, to engage sexually with the mother and 14-year-old. Baer was arrested in Wentzville.   

Baer was employed as a police officer with the Centralia Police Department at the time.