KS man told cops being called ‘child molester’ by parole officers made him abuse kids
A Wichita man accused of sexually abusing young girls for years told law enforcement he did it so parole officers who purportedly called him a “child molester” wouldn’t be disappointed.
Stacy Alan Munsell, in an interview with a Wichita police detective, claimed he got no satisfaction out of repeatedly assaulting the underage girls — and only did it because “he did not want to make liars” out of the people who allegedly called him names.
He claimed his “parole officers repeatedly called him a ‘child molester’ during his meetings with them, which upset him. It was around this time that he began sexually abusing” at least one of the victims, the detective wrote in a probable cause affidavit used to justify Munsell’s arrest and charges.
“He denied doing it for sexual gratification,” the detective added.
The sexual abuse continued regularly for years at his homes in Wichita and Wellington and included at least five girls, some of whom were 6 to 15 years old when it was reported to police in 2021. Two other children reported physical abuse by Munsell, including being grabbed by the throat and choked and hit with a jacket, the affidavit says.
Munsell, 60, was sentenced Thursday to 32 years, 10 months in prison, followed by three years of post-release supervision. In exchange for his guilty plea in October to four counts of kidnapping and one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor, prosecutors agreed to amend or dismiss every sex crime charge filed against him, as well as dismiss a Sumner County case where he was charged with more child sex abuse.
Many of the sex crimes charges he originally faced carry a presumptive prison sentence of life.
Munsell was on parole for two rape and sodomy cases from 1983 and 1989 when he abused the children, Kansas Department of Corrections records show. Sedgwick County District Judge David Kaufman handed down his latest prison sentence, Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dan Dillon said by email.
The Eagle is not revealing the relationship between Munsell and the children to protect their identities. The sexual abuse Munsell was accused of included making the girls shower and watch pornography with him, fondling, kissing, sex acts and molesting them when they were intoxicated with alcohol he provided.
Sometimes the sexual assaults happened weekly or every other week, the affidavit says the girls told law enforcement.
One girl said when she tried to refuse Munsell’s advances he would force her or get mad and “slap her in the face,” according to the affidavit.
At least once, he gave her Fireball whiskey mixed with energy drinks so she would “have fun, get loose”; she became drunk, blacked out and woke up to Munsell assaulting her, the affidavit said.
Munsell initially kept the girl quiet by telling her “she cannot tell anyone, or he will go away forever” and would “no longer be able to help” her family out, according to the affidavit. He bought her gifts and promised to bequeath his possessions to her when he died “since she does what he tells her to do.”
He also tried to convince the girl that “he shows his love to people” through sex acts and claimed “he is teaching her how people show their love to one another,” the affidavit says.
When she started fighting against the abuse, Munsell moved on to younger girls. He was caught after one girl disclosed the abuse to a friend, who told a parent, the affidavit says.
