by Darcy Gray
January 24, 2010
.The preliminary hearing for the Inman police chief accused of molesting four children has been rescheduled for 9 a.m. March 26 in McPherson County District Court, according to court records.
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Michael L. Akins Jr., 38, who remains in the McPherson County jail on $250,000 bond, was charged last week with 19 criminal counts and is accused of sexually abusing three girls and one boy between the ages of 9 and 14, according to the complaint filed against him by the Kansas Attorney Generals Office.
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Akins has hired McPherson-based attorney David Harger to represent him, district court staff confirmed Wednesday...
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The crimes are alleged to have occurred between December 2008 and December 2009...
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Akins was arrested Jan. 12 on a warrant after McPherson County Sheriff's deputies forcibly entered his home in Inman.
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Inman city officials have suspended Akins without pay and named police officer Bob Herron as acting police chief.Inman Mayor John O'Brien said Wednesday that no action was taken in Monday night's City Council meeting regarding Akin's job status. City officials "will not convict him until he's convicted," O'Brien reiterated Wednesday...
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.Previous Prairie Chicken post: Inman police chief arrested, accused of child sex crimes
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Couple of things. Comments left on the previous Prairie Chicken post (above link) are very supportive of Mike Akins. Don't know the guy, so I have no opinion one way or the other. What I do wonder, though, is why did they have to go to his house to arrest him and break in the door? He was/is the Police Chief--I would think he would walk right in to the station and turn himself in and make a statement on his innocence.
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The comments also seem to hold an idea that if the abuse accusations are from step-children, it is less believable than if the children were strangers. I don't understand this logic, unless the posters are saying the children and ex-wife are in cahoots to have Akins falsely incarcerated. Dangerous game, if true. Step-children are in greater danger than random victims, because they are very accessible and under the control of their abusers.
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These are just general statements. I'll wait for the court to figure it out.
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