Missouri.- A Missouri church leader allegedly tried to pay for sex on the gay connection app Grindr, with a supermarket card, according to a report. Using the “DILF” handle, Barry Cole Poyner, 57, allegedly tried to sleep with college-age boys by offering to pay for gas, clothing and roast beef sandwiches, police told Kirksville Daily Express. a professor at nearby Truman State University, was arrested after a student reported him and a policeman infiltrated the app, according to the newspaper. Poyner reportedly sent the officer a message saying he “would love to have a sugar daddy relationship,” and then offered to fill his gas tank in exchange for sexual favors on December 3, according to the paper.
Barry Cole Poyner
Instead, Poyner was greeted by the officers at the gas station, where he tried to flee, according to the newspaper. When he was arrested a few blocks away, he allegedly told police that he was “not doing anything with a minor” and that he was just “trying to help” by offering gifts to the men in the app. He was accused of sponsoring prostitution and faces up to six months behind bars. Truman State has suspended Poyner ever since. It was not immediately clear whether he was still in his leadership role in the Church of Christ, which has made homophobic comments in the past.
