Goddard man gets prison for having sex with girl on cruise

A Goddard man must serve 15 years in federal prison for flying an Ohio girl to Texas, taking her on a spring break cruise and having sex with her.

Paul Francis Grimm of Goddard was sentenced Tuesday in Houston.

Grimm, 44, pleaded guilty to transporting a minor across state lines for criminal sexual activity. Grimm knew the 15-year-old girl when he lived in Ohio.

Prosecutors say Grimm had an online relationship with the teen, paid for her March 2014 flight from Cleveland to Houston, drove her to Galveston and they took a Caribbean cruise.

Grimm was arrested when the ship returned and an officer checking disembarking passengers noticed the man and girl had different last names and weren’t related.

Grimm was fired in 2014 from his full-job at McConnell Air Force Base, where he worked as facilities manager for the Guard’s 184th Intelligence Wing. He was a 13-year Air Force veteran before joining the Guard in 2003.

Grimm still faces child pornography production counts in Sedgwick County.

This story was originally published November 3, 2015 at 3:01 PM with the headline "Goddard man gets prison for having sex with girl on cruise."