Child pornography charges sought for man found with wife’s dismembered body in Lenexa

Child pornography has allegedly been found on the phone of a man arrested last year with his wife’s dismembered body in a Lenexa storage facility.

Johnson County prosecutors on Thursday filed a request seeking court permission to amend the charges filed against Justin Todd Rey.

Rey, 36, has been in the Johnson County jail for over a year and was scheduled to go to trial Monday on charges of child endangerment and contributing to a child’s misconduct.

Those charges were filed last October after Lenexa police were called to the storage facility. There they encountered Rey with his two children, including a newborn daughter, and found his wife’s chopped up body in several storage bins.

Rey told police that his wife died after giving birth in a Kansas City hotel room, and he had cut her body into pieces so he could transport her to their home in Arizona.

He was also charged in Jackson County with abandonment of a corpse.

In Thursday’s motion, filed in Johnson County District Court, prosecutors said they intend to charge Rey with three additional counts of sexual exploitation of a child.

Police searched Rey’s phone last month at his request, according to the motion.

On the phone, investigators allegedly found “stored images depicting what appeared to be children under 18 years of age shown engaging in sexually explicit conduct,” the motion states.

A doctor, who reviewed some of the images at the request of police, confirmed that some were of children younger than 18, according to the allegations.

This story was originally published November 1, 2018 at 4:08 PM.