Hedrick Attempted Rape Charges

[Clark Kent]

This was on the front page of the Poplar Bluff paper, I guess the Dexter paper was full today and could not cover this story....or it could be the Hedrick boy's Dad advertises with them? I am changing my insurance soon!

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH
BLOOMFIELD — A Dexter teenager is to appear in court Thursday afternoon on eight sexual-related felonies, including forcible sodomy and attempted forcible rape.
Zachariah A. Hedrick, 17, of the 16100 block of Country Lane was charged last week with the unclassified felonies of attempted forcible rape and attempted first-degree statutory rape, the Class B felony of first-degree child molestation, the Class C felonies of sexual abuse and felonious restraint and the Class D felony of sexual misconduct involving a child.
At the time Hedrick allegedly committed the offenses in February 2006, he was a juvenile.
Stoddard County juvenile authorities reportedly sought to have Hedrick certified and tried as an adult.
A hearing was held before Associate Circuit Judge John Spielman in Kennett to consider a motion filed by juvenile authorities to dismiss and allow prosecution under general law.
In his order, Spielman cited eight reasons, which included the seriousness of the alleged offenses and Hedrick’s age, as to why Hedrick was “not a proper subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the juvenile code.”
Spielman’s order was filed Jan. 26, the same day Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Briney Welborn filed a complaint charging Hedrick with six additional felonies.
Hedrick already was charged with the Class B felony of forcible sodomy and the Class C felony of felonious restraint. Welborn had filed those charges in connection with an alleged Oct. 4 incident at a Dexter business.
Spielman ordered Hedrick to appear at 1:30 p.m. Thursday for a hearing on the original charges and arraignment on the new ones.
Spielman was assigned by Presiding Circuit Judge Stephen Sharp to hear the cases after Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield recused himself and after the defense sought a change of judge when Associate Circuit Judge Stephen Mitchell was assigned to hear the initial case.
All the charges against Hedrick stem from investigations by the Dexter Police Department.
Attached to Detective Cory Mills’ probable cause affidavits were written statements from Hedrick’s alleged victims.
“We walked around the store for a few minutes talking,” the teen wrote.“Then Zach went back to the office and sat down, to talk, I assumed.”
According to the teen’s statement, while in the office, Hedrick allegedly asked her if “I would make out with him. I said ‘Sure,’ thinking he was just kidding. He then asked me if I really would.
“I asked if he was being serious and he said yes. I then answered no.”
Hedrick allegedly asked again, with the teen saying she again refused.
“He then said ‘Just make out with me, please,’ so I gave in thinking he’d go away if I let him have his way,” the teen wrote.“… After we kissed for a while, I pulled away and told him I couldn’t do it anymore because it was awkward.”
Hedrick allegedly asked the girl to perform sexual acts on him, which she reportedly refused to do
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The victm said Hedrick also asked her to have sex and she refused.
The teen said she waited for Hedrick to leave the store,“but (he) came back. He told me he wasn’t leaving until I (performed a sexual act on him). I said no ….”

[Clark Kent]

Part 2

The teen alleged Hedrick started kissing her and restrained one of her hands during the sex act.
In his probable cause affidavit, Mills detailed another incident, which allegedly occurred on a Wednesday in February 2006 at the First Baptist Church, 11 W. Castor, and involved a then 13-year-old girl
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At approximately 7:45 to 8 p.m.,“Zachariah Hedrick grabbed Jane Doe (the alleged victim) by the arm and pushed her into a dark room,” where “Hedrick tried to kiss (her),” Mills said.“Jane Doe turned her head and tried to avoid Hedrick.
At one point Jane Doe tried to walk away but the suspect grabbed her arm and pushed her to the fioor, Mills explained.
At one point, Hedrick’s alleged victim,“who was still physically resisting and telling him to stop (his increased sexual advances), began crying and ceased physical resistance,” Mills said.“After Jane Doe started crying, Hedrick stopped the attack and asked what was wrong.
As the girl attempted to leave,“Hedrick again grabbed Jane Doe by the arm, preventing her from leaving and asked her to swear on the Bible that she would not tell anyone,” Mills said.“Jane Doe refused ….”

[Clark Kent]

He attacked one girl in a Church building!!! If this is what my hard earned money has gone to pay for, I am changing insurance soon!

[comment]

I have a question for you people. Why are you changing insurance companies? Do you not think that if that was your son that u would try your best to get the best for them? The parents did not do this and are very hurt and upset with what there son has done. They raised there kids to be good kids. You need to remember they are KIDS! They don't always do what mom or dad said to do. I don't think what has happened is write and he should be punished but why put the parents threw more. This is probably the hardest thing they have ever had to deal with in there lives so give the parents a break people!!

[truth seeker]

Almost all of this is not true.

[Concerned Mom]

The parents throw money at the kids, go to the "right" church but do not follow up on how the kid is actually behaving. This same kid already got off very light for another crime before he started attacking girls!!!

You bet your *** I can hold it against them, it is my money that buys my insurance and I will not let it go to these people. I agree with the other person who is changing there insurance!

[friend of both]

Jane Doe told me that this has been blown way out of proportion and that she and Zach were and still are friends.

[Falcon]

There are several victims, I dont think they ALL blew it out of proportion! This will be a good case to watch....can money really buy you out of anything?

[guest]

Never posted before but this one gets me. I hope there are enough eyes on this case to see that justice is really done and not another slap on the wrist.

[Bearcat11]

friend of both wrote:

Jane Doe told me that this has been blown way out of proportion and that she and Zach were and still are friends.

You don't even know who Jane Doe is. Don't act like you know what your talking about when you don't.

[Needhelp]

I have been wondering where this story went...it hasn't been in the Daily Statesman for a long time...I am shocked and saddened that this boy has done this sort of thing...it is disgusting.

[hmm]

idk money seems to do alot of things....but yes i do believe all of this bc there ARE more victoms that have not came forward and i know that one of them(the ones that didnt come forward) is true bc i was there!

[Okay]

you people really need to get a life and leave this kid alone until he has actually been charged for something. especially you grown people who should have more to do with your lives than sit behind a computer screen all night talking trash about a senior in high school. if that was your kid and you were a good parent, you would also try to get him out of trouble. so leave them alone.

[Cocomo Joe]

Okay wrote:

you people really need to get a life and leave this kid alone until he has actually been charged for something. especially you grown people who should have more to do with your lives than sit behind a computer screen all night talking trash about a senior in high school. if that was your kid and you were a good parent, you would also try to get him out of trouble. so leave them alone.

He has been charged for something. The BIG difference is he has yet to be CONVICTED of any wrong doing. The exception being, of course, he has been convicted by the know-it-alls on this site. It's called due process people. It is part of what makes this country so great. When and if he is convicted, then be as hard on him as you please. Until then....

[Falcon]

He is innocent until proven guilty.

But, everybody knows the cops must really have a good case here or they would never go after such a wealthy and important family. He has done these things, if there was any doubt the cops would have turned their backs.

[Hmm]

friend of both wrote:

Jane Doe told me that this has been blown way out of proportion and that she and Zach were and still are friends.

Really now? There were a lot of girls. How are you so sure it was the person you talked to?

[observer]

He apparently has been having sex for quite a while. Good Baptist morals being taught and followed here. He was a minor having sex with a minor?

[Capt Sully]

He was trying to force others to have sex is the problem. Attacked one in the church? What are they doing with all that money, cant they buy him a hooker?

[Freckles]

Someone in law enforcement really must have it in for this boy. From what is being said (not reported in papers) many of these charges are being stretched from stories these girls told at school while being questioned for previous things. My only hope is that THEY don't have children that the same thing can be done to.

[Perry Mason]

This case has got me fooled, I really thought this case was being taken care of on the Golf Course.
I heard that the boy used to go out with Judge Satterfields daughter.