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Born April 14, 1936 in Sedalia, she was the daughter of the late Ernest R. and Alma B. Crafton Simmons.

All charges against five men who were accused of molesting young relatives decades ago on a western Missouri farm are being dismissed.

A Missouri prosecutor said Wednesday she was dismissing all charges against five men accused of sexually molesting young relatives on a western Missouri farm more than 20 years ago."This was a highly unusual series of cases and the outcome should not deter other victims of crime from reporting those crimes," Lafayette County prosecutor Kellie ... (more)

A Missouri judge has refused to dismiss rape charges against one of the five men accused of molesting young relatives three decades ago at a farm.

The patriarch of a family accused in a western Missouri sex crimes case was ordered released on his own recognizance Friday, pending his trial on charges that he and four of his sons molested young relatives three decades ago.