Sex Abuse Victims Forced to Help Kill Man?

(AP)  Prosecutors in western Missouri filed 15 additional sex charges against a family already accused of sexually abusing children as a newly released search warrant claims some of the suspects forced their victims to help kill and bury a man in 1988.

The new rape and sodomy charges stem from 1984 to 1989 and accuse Burrell E. Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, of rape, sodomy and use of a child in a sexual performance. His four sons, Jared Leroy Mohler, 48, of Columbia; Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates City; and David A. Mohler, 52, of Lamoni, Iowa, were charged with rape.

The original complaint, which has allegations that date from 1988 to 1995, includes charges of forcible sodomy, rape with a child younger than 12 and use of a child in a sexual performance.

During a brief court appearance Tuesday, four of the five men said they were still working to find attorneys. Only Jared Leroy Mohler said he had hired a lawyer.

No additional charges were filed against the sixth person accused in the case, Darrel W. Mohler, 72, who is being held in Marion County, Fla. on two counts of rape stemming from 1986. He waived extradition Tuesday, but it was unclear when he would come to Missouri.

The Associated Press is not identifying the children in the case.

The new charges, filed Monday, stemmed from accounts of a 29-year-old woman, who told investigators she and three other children were bound at the wrists and blindfolded while three men raped them.

Authorities last week searched a rural property outside Bates City, about 30 miles east of Kansas City, Mo., where members of the Mohler family once lived. Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said then he believed they may find a body or bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse.

Adults allegedly told children to write down bad memories and bury them there and "the memories would go away," Sgt. Collin Stosberg, spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol, said last week.

The case took another bizarre turn with the release of a search warrant indicating that three of the alleged abuse victims observed "several murders" and were forced to help kill and bury a man.

According to the warrant, a man abducted from his Independence, Mo., home was brought to Mohler Sr.'s property in Bates City. There, the warrant states, Mohler Jr., ordered the children to attack the abducted man and stab him, and threatened to kill the children if they refused.

One of the children then jumped on the man's back and stabbed him, but it was a stab wound from the adult that actually killed the victim, according to the warrant. The children were then forced to help dig a grave for the man and bury him.

The affidavit offers no details about the stabbing victim.

Investigators say they are taking the claims seriously, but insist they are focused on the sexual assault case.

Meanwhile, one of several women who came forward to police told investigators that she twice became pregnant and the men buried her first baby in their basement, according to court documents.

An investigator's affidavit released Monday said a radar used to search the rural property where Burrell Mohler Sr. and his sons lived in the 1980s found an object "consistent with the shape of a box" under the basement's concrete floor.

The woman told investigators that she was locked in the basement and raped in 1988.

She said the baby was buried in a box under the basement's only window. The affidavit said the basement floor was dirt at the time, and "following the delivery of the first baby, Burrell E. Mohler Sr. and Burrell E. Mohler Jr. buried the infant in the basement." The floor was later covered in concrete.

[LindsayFitzgerald]

Wow. This sounds like a load of CRAP to me. It sounds like the 80s and early 90s again. I read in "The Week" that there were allegations of forced abortions too. None of any of that crap ever was proved, and I highly doubt this will be either. I wonder why CBS news didn't say that this is all on the basis of some previously repressed memories that some lady who's about 30 now suddenly came up with. It's not that I don't believe there may have been some abuse. But anything based on new memories of a person's childhood are suspect at best. And so far I haven't heard on the news that any evidence has been uncovered.

[tomanyt]

Have the Police produced any evidence at all??? All i've heard is accusations, but nothing about evidence.

[quapawsix]

This is the next media frenzy to distract the masses. Why you ask it's simple, "the People demand to see justice". I think I'll get another cup of coffee jump in to the recliner and watch the three ring circus.

[krzeaz]

Has there been any actual evidence yet that the children's claims are true???

[mejordelahistoria]

if the people that murdered those babies, raped those children and did all of these things described were muslims, blacks or mexicans everyone would be asking for a hanging, old sparky, insulting their religion, their race etc.. but because they look like the grandparents or the relatives of most people that post their things here now everyone wants the benefit of the doubt.... even though there are several accusers and evidence just keeps piling up. On top of that they are christians so they want to pretend it never happened, it's the good old boys next door. Most of you are just too retarded to self ***** your own prejudices. And yes I hope they fry them slowly as they hold their bible and pray.

[ToolMangler1]

I am remembering a Daycare that went through this media lynching and was put out of business, the people were ruined financially and scorned by their neighbors. Turned out to be 100% false accusations.
But I guess its better to err on the side of the alleged victim than to do things by the law, Right?????

[tripsydaily]

Those men are shackled and in jumpsuits - still in jail... their story has been front page news on all media outlets for a week... I think national outrage in an understatement in this case - I am not sure why you feel they are being protected because of their race/religion. Maybe you are confusing wishful thinking with racism - I wish it were not true I can only hope the kids are confused - because to have to accept these men are the cruel, animalistic, scarily-functioning adults is to accept there are many others out there - and for me it is too much to bear because there is no way to help the victims, no way to stop these monsters and no possible way to get any true justice. Maybe it is collective denial - not because of race or religion, but because of how unbelievably monstrous this is - these crimes make "terrorists" look like choir boys.

[hdc77494]

The news report from Florida said Darrel W. Mohler bought a house and retired there in 1984 and was basicaqlly estranged from his brothers. I'm scratching my head how he could be arrested for a 1988 rape when he left the state four years before. Where's the statute of limitations? How are these men supposed to defend themselves in a case occurring 21 years ago? Why have the charges changed since first filed? This is starting to sound like the California case against the day care center. After destroying several people's lives,, it turned out the claimant was a mentally disturbed alcoholic and there was no evidence against anyone. I hope this doesn't turn out the same way.

[toldyouso21]

1. Just because someone has moved does not mean they can no longer travel back to where they once were. If the man was arrested, there is a high probability that accusations of a victim coupled with evidence place that man at the scene of a crime and that at some point they traveled back to that part of MO. You don't have to live in a state to commit a crime there. So stop scratching your head on that part.

2. There is no statute of limitations in any crimes where murder has occurred. Any victim also, that brings a case where due to their age and circumstances they can reasonably analyzed to have been incapable due to memory loss or age to prosecute, are granted an additional time period above the regular statute of limitations. They have to prove their inability to prosecute as in mental or age incapacitation, they were imprisoned or in a coma or were nutso (she appears to be claiming a kind of nutso)

3. POlice due not usually charge people with crimes without evidence due to the possibilities of a lawsuit.

4. The police are not saying what evidence they have accrued. Having people come forth to claim to be victims is very common, but what is not common is the possibility of pictures, film, videos, and skeletons of dead babies or murdered men.

5. Interesting enough, not one of the men has proclaimed their innocence or said they were not guilty. Wonder why? Are they waiting to see what evidence does exist? Most people who are innocent proclaim that from day 1--they know what they did and did not do.these men are strangely silent except to say they don't have lawyers yet--and in the case of the one who does have a lawyer--there is no comment. That is unusual.

There were things that did go on at the daycare--don't think that every case that is dismissed or with charges dropped mean the other party was innocent. In the Duke LaCrosse case--***** from at least 2 of the boys was found in the stripper--but she was so erratic and her story kept changing and the boys' lawyers said the sex was consensual and the marks found on her body were from other encounters from other men. This does not men the boys did not rape her or the prosecutor was lying. What it means is that the state chose not to pursue her case because she was toast as her own witness and no matter what happened, the case in their eyes was not prosecutable or winnable. this does not mean she was not raped, it means it was not provable. As for the day care, several of the kids were found to have been fondled and had items inserted into their bodies.But since the social workers coached them and due to the kids' ages no one could proved who did the damage or when it occurred nor could they get straight answers from toddlers--the state had no case. In all the cases I named and in many more that occur DAILY in the USA--just know that many cases that are dropped or dismissed are NOT because evil did not occur but because every state prosecutor must be able to WIN for the state or have enough evidence to prove what they charge--if they don't they make a mockery of their office and don't last long. So prosecutors tend to stick with air tight cases or those in which the circumstances totally favor them. In this case, we don't know what the police have and perhaps neither do the lawyers. They won't know until discovery and interrogatories are sent out. UNtil then, they will try to play these guys against each other and hope they scare one enough to rat out the others. This is classic. IN most cases with more than one perp--it is not the evidence or even the circumstances that get them--it is the turning of states evidence and the testimony of one of the players.

Usually they choose the least culpable to roll over on the others. They may have nothing against Darrel Mohler per se--but by playing it this way, they hope to trick or talk him into admitting to something then offering a plea deal or even immunity and have him implicate the rest of his brothers and his dad. They do this, when they have evidence but perhaps not enough to convict--then it becomes a matter of outsmarting the perps by making one sing.

[Harden_Tar]

This is one time that I want to see some physical evidence before weighing in. This is just so over the top. Is there more than a single accuser? For all we know, this gal is a out of her mind.

[culturechang]

This is a local case for me. This is really bizzare with a lot of unsubstantiated accusations. Daily the news is having a field day with it and there is not one shred of physical evidence to back this up. The accusers waited 15 years to talk.

Now, they say these guys plotted and killed a strange man in 1988, but there was no reason for it. And the only missing persons report (of a man) in the state that year was determined NOT to be the same person.

This is going to turn out to be a big hoax.

[robinspp]

The sexual predators especially the people sexually abuse the children should be surgically castrated. That is the only way we can control this group.

[culturechang]

Lets find them guilty in court before deciding on punishment. Right now, they have no evidence and the allegations are very wild.

What shall we do with the accusers when we find out this was a hoax? Cut thier tongues off?

[jsf14]

But we have not seen any EVIDENCE that these men are or ever were sexual predators.

[mdom1]

dont put them in jail. KILLED THEM!!!!! I HOPE THEY DO IT!!!