Park Hills Registered Sex Offender Admits to Molesting Teen

St. Louis, Mo. (KFMO) - A Park Hills registered sex offender admitted Tuesday to molesting a 14-year-old boy and providing cash and marijuana in exchange for nude images. 

57-year-old Reginald M. Miller pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to coercion and enticement of a minor as a repeat offender, solicitation of child pornography as a prior offender and receiving child pornography as a prior offender. Miller admitted to molesting the 14-year-old victim beginning in 2023 by touching his genitals without consent. Miller gave the victim alcohol and marijuana and paid him in attempt to keep him from reporting the molestation. Miller later offered the victim money or marijuana to expose himself in video calls. 

According to the plea agreement, on Jan. 4, 2024, Miller sent a text to the victim saying that there was no escape from their “friendship”. 

The U.S. Attorney’s office will request a sentence of 40 years in prison for Miller, at his sentencing October 15.

In 1999, Miller was convicted of the felony offense of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree and two misdemeanor offenses of assault in the third degree in St. Louis County Circuit Court and sentenced to jail and probation. In 2008, Miller was convicted of charges including statutory sodomy in St. Louis Circuit Court and sentenced to 16 years in prison.