Bates City News

David Mohler posted bond late Wednesday afternoon and has left the jail in Lafayette County.

The church failed these children. The words went unwritten in yesterday's Kansas City Star .

Three of the six men accused of over half a decade of sex crimes will face an additional 11 total counts, based on further victim statements.

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.

They say they were raped and forced to kill - and that they just now remember it, 20 years later.

BATES CITY, Mo. -- On a dead-end dirt road, through frosted crops and bales of hay in this sleepy town about a half-hour east of Kansas City, state investigators spent much of last week excavating the yard around a farmhouse, looking for decades-old evidence of sex crimes against children.

New child molestation charges were filed Thursday against a Missouri grandfather and his four sons, and investigators said they seized more videotapes.

LEXINGTON, Missouri: Horrific new allegations suggesting children as young as 5 were ordered to murder a man have emerged in a case already involving claims of ritualistic child sex abuse.

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.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 8:54 pm US/Eastern LEXINGTON, Mo. If the tales they told police are true, a group of children in rural Missouri grew up in a house of horror, where some were raped by relatives, then told to write down their memories in little glass jars and bury them in the ground.

Remember your pride, Missourians, when kidnapping child-molestor Michael Devlin made headlines around the globe? And after serial torturer/killer Bob Berdella , you'd thought we had nothing else to contribute.

A man who police arrested and released in connection with the sex crimes case in Bates City, Mo., said he doesn't understand why he was linked to the case in the first place.

Add Larry Kidd to the list of men suspected of sexually abusing young children in Lafayette County.

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.

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.

Hours after a father and his four middle-aged sons shuffled into court Thursday, a sixth man was arrested in connection with an expanding child sexual abuse investigation.A 55-year-old Kansas City man, identified as an associate of Burrell E. Mohler Sr.s extended family, was arrested on suspicion of rape of a child less than 14 years old.

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.

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

Atlanta Journal Constitution Investigators search around a home as they look for evidence on a rural property in western Missouri Wednesday, Nov.