Scandal-plagued mayor arrested for serious sex crimes — including alleged sodomy of a minor

Scandal-plagued mayor arrested for serious sex crimes — including alleged sodomy of a minor


A St. Louis-area mayor obsessed with race and swamped with lawsuits has been arrested — and the accusations against him are horrifying.

On Thursday, Mayor Michael Cornell of Riverview, Missouri, was arrested and charged with nine felonies: four counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, three counts of first-degree sodomy or attempted sodomy, and one count each of first-degree harassment and possession of child pornography — film/videotape.

‘Tell me why we’re being sued because you made sexual advances to an employee and when he refused, you fired him.’

As of Thursday afternoon, Cornell remained in custody on a $1 million, cash-only bond.

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The statutory sodomy charges relate to repeated incidents between 2016 and 2017 of alleged sexual contact with a teenager under 17 years of age, KSDK reported.

Prosecutors claimed that Cornell

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