FBI Paid a Child Rapist 90k to Set-Up Two Mentally Disabled Patsies in Seattle

(wow. simply… wow. I guess the old days of Mulder and Scully are long gone. It’s the X-Rated Files now)

from Keys Info Net

A child rapist turned FBI informant who was arrested in Key West for fraudulent use of a credit card and failing to register as a sex offender has struck a plea deal with Monroe County prosecutors.

Robert Childs, 39, has been out of jail and back on the streets of Key West since Jan. 28. Florida Department of Law Enforcement records show he has a temporary address at the Keys Overnight Temporary Shelter on College Road in Stock Island.

Childs pleaded guilty on Jan. 27 to fraudulent use of a credit card and no contest to failing to register as a sex offender. As part of the plea agreement, County Judge Wayne Miller issued an order finding that Childs is a sexual predator — a designation that requires conviction of a felony sex crime involving a minor.

Childs is now registered with the FDLE as a sexual predator, records show. He is bald and has a full beard, based on a mug shot taken earlier this month. Before moving to Florida, Childs had a full head of hair and was clean-shaven, previous arrest photographs show.

Key West police arrested Childs on July 4, 2014, after he rang up five transactions totaling $863.11 on a stolen American Express card at Johnny Rockets, where he had worked for about two months. The arresting officer, Janeth Calvert, then discovered that Childs had not registered as a sex offender as required by law.

As the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting discovered, Childs had been paid $90,000 for his work as an FBI informant in a controversial counterterrorism sting operation in Seattle.

Recording hundreds of hours of conversations, Childs led two mentally ill men — Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh — in a plot to attack a military recruiting station. As part of the sting, the FBI provided everything the trio needed for the plot, including the weapons.

A Human Rights Watch report last July criticized such FBI stings for targeting “particularly vulnerable people, including those with intellectual and mental disabilities and the indigent.”

Childs had reason to want to see Abdul-Latif behind bars. He owed thousands of dollars to Abdul-Latif and had tried to woo his wife away, according to Binta Moussa-Davis, Abdul-Latif’s wife

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