Left: Travis Kalchbrenner (Cole County Sheriff’s Department). Right: Fredrick Copping (Cole County Sheriff’s Department).
A Missouri dad thought his teenage daughter was talking to a “nice guy” online and allegedly invited him to come live with them — even though that guy was 31 years old.
Fredrick Copping, 47, was arrested on March 14 along with Travis Kalchbrenner, 31, the Florida man who called Copping’s 15-year-old daughter his “girlfriend.” According to a probable cause statement obtained by KMIZ, a local ABC affiliate, police were called to the home in response to a possible domestic incident. The arrest warrant for Copping said that when Cole County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived, they observed that the teenager was “extremely intoxicated,” and according to KMIZ’s reporting, she claimed to be 22 years old.
Deputies soon found out that she was 15 years old — and her living situation raised some eyebrows.
