Lafayette County News

Last June, 76-year-old Burrell E. Mohler Sr. seemed a perfectly reasonable choice to give the Father's Day sermon at his tiny Bates City Community of Christ Church.

Search warrant affidavits related to a child sex abuse case detail what investigators were looking for and describe a murder that allegedly happened on a rural Bates City property in 1988.

A hearing for former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith has been postponed.

For the young sisters in the Mohler family, summers were the worst because thats when they had to go to their grandfathers farm.Thats what the sisters, now grown women, have told authorities who on Thursday filed 11 more charges in a child sex abuse case that has shocked the country.In court documents to support the latest charges, the sisters told ...

A former member of the Mormom Church who attended services with the victims in the Mohler child sex case says that she remembers the girls talking about sexual abuse at the hands of their father, and even claims that one of the alleged assaults happened at church.

On Thursday, the brother of the alleged ringleader of a bizarre child sex ring said he found the alleged acts of his relatives if true unspeakable and repulsive.On Friday, he found himself charged in the same case.Darrel Wayne Mohler, 72, was arrested Friday night at his home in Silver Springs, Fla.

Jared Mohler is escorted to the courtroom at Lafayette Hall in Lexington, Mo., for his first appearance on Thursday, Nov.

The wife of one of six men charged in a child sex abuse case recently found material depicting incest that was hidden in the family's home, according to a search warrant.

CNN Five of the Mohlers appear in court in Lafayette County, Missouri, after their arrests.

New allegations of murder have added to the shock and horror of the Mohler family sex investigation in Lafayette County, Mo.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 7:01 p.m. Read more: Local , State , Crime , Community , Sex Offenders A sixth member of a family facing multiple child sex abuse charges in western Missouri said he is, quote, "devastated" about the allegations.

Police arrested a sixth member of a Missouri family under investigation for allegations of child sexual abuse, police said.

The sixth suspect charged in the Lafayette County, Mo. family sex ring case plans to fight extradition to Missouri after he was arrested Friday in Silver Springs, Fla.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. a 'Three of the five Mohler men accused of sexual abuse in Lafayette County served as lay priests for the Community of Christ Church.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo - " Today members of the national support group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests will hold a sidewalk news conference applauding the arrest of three metro lay ministers and two other family members on child sex charges, and are urging other victims of their alleged abuse to come forward.

A 72-year-old Marion County man accused of raping two children in another state made his first appearance in front of a judge Saturday afternoon.

Police in Kansas City, Missouri arrested another suspect, Larry Kidd, in the gruesome child sex crime case out of Bates City, Missouri on Thursday night.

Police are looking for another member of a Missouri family under investigation for allegations of child sexual abuse, police said.

Larry Kidd, the Kansas City man who was arrested in connection to the Bates City child sex abuse scandal in Lafayette County has been released from custody.

A sixth member of a family facing child sex abuse charges in western Missouri has been charged with rape in connection with the case.