Wichitan pleads guilty in child sex case involving teen runaway from Kentucky
A 22-year-old Wichitan has pleaded guilty to five crimes after helping a 14-year-old Kentucky child run away from home so they could have a sexual relationship.
Samuel L. Loredo pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of criminal sodomy and one count each of indecent liberties with a child, aggravated interference with parental custody and sexual exploitation of a child, Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lyndsee Stover said.
Loredo is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 14, court records show.
A probable cause affidavit says Loredo met the teen online while playing video games and that they exchanged romantic messages and nude photos and videos.
In November 2024, Loredo lured the teen to Wichita, including buying the child’s bus ticket, the affidavit says. Loredo also paid for an Uber driver to take the teen from the downtown Wichita bus station to a home in the 2300 block of North Woodland, where they had sex repeatedly, according to the affidavit.
When the police showed up after pinging the teen’s cellphone to the home, Loredo hid the teen outside in a wooded area, the affidavit says.
Officers later found the teen walking about a half mile away from the house.
The teen’s parents knew their child was in an online relationship but thought Loredo was a 16-year-old girl named Sammy, according to the affidavit.
After their child went missing, the parents contacted Loredo, asking for information about the teen’s whereabouts. In a phone call with them, Loredo posed as a 16-year-old girl — and also pretended to be the fictional girl’s father — and lied about not knowing where the child was, the affidavit says.
The teen talked with Loredo online and by phone for about three months before running away, the affidavit says.
Loredo was arrested and and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on Nov. 19, 2024.
This story was originally published October 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM.
