Investigators are digging up a rural Missouri property looking for notes they say six children buried in glass jars documenting years of nightmarish sexual abuse allegedly at the hands of their grandfather, father and three uncles. Police who are excavating the 55 acre property said they are also looking for bodies, although they would not say whether they were looking for bodies of adults or children.
The five men, three of whom were lay ministers with the Community of Christ church, have been arrested and appeared in court today to hear the charges against them, including forcible sodomy, rape with a child younger than 12 and use of a child in a sexual performance. They were shackled at their wrists, waists and ankles.
The men did not enter pleas and did not appear to have legal representation. Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., 77, the grandfather of the five girls and one boy – now all adults – faces the worst of the charges that include forcible rape of a child under the age of 12, two counts of felony rape and two counts of use of a child in a sexual performance.
His son and the father of the five children, Burrell Edward Mohler Jr., 53, was charged with forcible rape of a child under the age of 14 and two counts of use of a child in a sexual performance.
Also charged with sexual abuse were the children’s three uncles — David Mohler, 52, Jared Mohler, 48, and Roland Mohler, 47. According to a probable cause statement filed with the Lafayette County prosecutor’s office, the woman also told investigators that her grandfather, father and two uncles forced a series of sexual abuses on the children ranging from sodomy to bestiality.
The documents also describe fake marriages between the girls and their uncles in which the alleged victim “and her sisters would pick flowers to adorn their hair. They also wore special dresses.” The “weddings” were consumated in a trailer parked in the yard or the chicken coop, according to the probable cause filing. In addition, he said, “We’ve been given information that there could possibly be a body or bodies located on the property.”
It makes you wonder, where were the women when all of this was taking place…?
They look trusting.
White men with beards.
Willing to wait for the evidence. If they are found not guilty than they deserve an apology. If on the other hand they are guilty. My daddy had a suggestion for rapists and pedo’s. Nail their whang to a post, set the post on fire and give them a dull knife.
Lay Ministers? You know, I’m not gonna bother. Too easy.
They all look alike. Are they related?
they’ve got beards. they must be terrorists. shoot them.
Kill all humans!!!
Four more and it’s the opening to the Brady Bunch.
It’s the story, of a man named Burrell, who was busy with five girls and one boy…
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It’s the story, of a man named Burrell, who was busy with five girls and one boy…
I love it when pervs associate themselves with God. Shouldn’t there be a screening process?
#9. Now that damn song will be stuck in everyone’s head all Damn Day!!!!
Buwahahahahahahaha
Sick ministers of the Community of Christ Church but at least homosexuals can’t get married in Missouri.
Shocking display of desensitization in the comments
@#10
The less social a human is, the lower the effective intelligence (lack of idea cross-fertilization and lack of eyeballs scrutinizing behavior).
The lower the effective intelligence, the most animalish and anti-social behaviors like lying, cheating, stealing and failure to control impulses like sex drive.
… and have unquestioned conflicting religious beliefs that he was “told” as a child.
Hence, strong religious beliefs and child molestation have a strong correlation but don’t cause each other.
Add: Obviously, in the USA it is going to be demographically rural white males that are most likely to display the “I’m clergy and I molest children” thing as a result.
Christian pedophiles… wow… how surprising…
Why do I “feel guilty” when a cop car comes up behind me????
WORSE===why do I “feel guilty” when a news item like this crops up????
Our highest obligations are to the young to give them a healthy childhood and a fulfilling future.
Once you are an adult yourself, it doesn’t really matter what your own daddy/uncle/brother did to you. Its all existential value affirmation.
Yea, verily!
The “weddings” were consummated in a trailer parked in the yard or the chicken coop.
These are the kind of guys who think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are “Gentlemen, start your engines.”
Damn it’s getting hard to feel proud to be a human being!!! Hanging’s too good for them, unless it’s by the balls…