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US-CRIME-SEX-CHILD
This November 16, 2009 combination photo courtesy of the Lafayette County Missouri Sheriff's Department and the Marion County Florida Sheriff's Office, show booking photos of top row L-R: Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., 77, Darrel Wayne Mohler and Burrell Edward Mohler Jr., 53. Bottom row L-R: David A. Mohler, 52, Roland Neil Mohler, 47, and Jared Leroy Mohler, 48. Police say that for years Burrell Mohler and his sons, well known in the Bates City community and active in the church, led a bizarre, ritualistic child sex ring that included bestiality and the rape and sodomy of the elder Mohler's grandchildren. They held mock weddings in which girls as young as five would be paired with their father, uncles or grandfather and sent to the privacy of a chicken coop for consummation. Victims, now grown, told investigators that a German shepherd dog was involved in the torrent of sexual assaults that allegedly took place from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. The victims said they wrote notes detailing the horrific abuse and buried them in glass jars around the farm. The notes were cries for help, written in hope that people might someday come to know of the horrors that transpired here. But years passed before authorities finally came to dig for the jars -- and possibly a body -- with the local sheriff saying indications are that at least one person may have been killed. This week, Mohler, 77, described as the ringleader of a family sex cult, was arrested and charged with multiple felony counts. Four of his middle-aged sons were also nabbed in coordinated raids. Late November13, 2009 the law enforcement net stretched like the family tree itself, reaching all the way to Florida to capture the elder's brother, 72-year-old Darrel Mohler. Victims have now surfaced from other states, and reportedly even Canada. AFP PHOTO/HO/ Lafayette County Missouri Sheriff's Department and the Marion County Florida Sheriff's Office
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Bates City, Missouri, UNITED STATES |
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16 Noiembrie 2009 |
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