Former KBI Official Disbarred

The Kansas Supreme Court recently disbarred an attorney convicted of sexual expliotation of a child.

Tokepa Capital-Journal has the details here

Kyle G. Smith, a former administrator with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, was charged Thursday with sexual exploitation of a child involving a visual medium, according to Shawnee County District Court records.

Smith, who was third in line at the KBI, also was charged with two counts of interference with law enforcement, alleging he tried to destroy evidence on a telephone and on a computer.

In this case, the Kansas sexual exploitation statute defines the offense as “possessing any visual depiction of a child under 18 years of age shown or heard engaging in sexually explicit conduct with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires or appeal to the prurient interest of the offender or any other person.” Often that means it is a still photograph.

The exploitation charge and the obstructing charges are felonies.

Smith, a lawyer, has more than three decades of experience in law enforcement and criminal prosecution.

“We are saddened and disappointed that a past employee of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is alleged to have committed the acts charged today by the Shawnee County district attorney,” KBI Director Kirk Thompson said in a statement Thursday night. “The case is now properly before the courts and, therefore, it would be inappropriate for me or any other member of the agency to comment further at this time.”

Fox4kc.com  reports that he was sentenced to probation and tells how the conduct was discovered

The charge involved an image of a teenage girl engaged in sexually explicit conduct. An email containing the picture was traced to Smith’s KBI account after an agency secretary discovered the image last fall and notified her superiors.

 (Mike Frisch)