Joel Justice Womochil was the Chief of Police in Burns, Kansas until he resigned a few days before his arrest for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was charged with thirteen felony counts. One of the videos was with a child under five, so young they had a pacifier. The investigation that led to his arrest was initiated by a tip from the National Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.
He had a TikTok account documenting life as a cop and a profile on X with a PedoBear banner, a signal to fellow pedophiles. In addition to state charges, he has been charged federally with two counts of possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Womochil pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of child/production of child sexual abuse material. He was sentenced to sixty years.
- Wichita Eagle: Kansas police chief resigns days before felony charges of possessing child porn: records
- KWCH: Former Burns police chief arrested for child sex crimes
- The Daily Beast: TikTok-Famous Police Chief Swapped Incest Vids on Secret Twitter Account: Feds
- The Daily Beast Docs: U.S. v. Joe Womochil (Trigger Warning, these affidavits are always explicit.)
- Wichita Eagle: Former Kansas police chief sentenced to 60 years in prison in child porn case
There is an information filing down below that describes the several Child Sexual Abuse Material video he possessed. I did not read the charges. I read the first part of Count One and stopped. For other survivors of child sexual abuse, I suggest skipping it as well.
