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If glass jars are found, story will gain much credibility
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by smkovalinsky | November 11, 2009 at 11:16 am
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Police agents in Missouri are searching a rural property for some glass jars, said to be left there with notes inside them, written by children under 12 twenty years ago. The notes are allegedly about sexual abuse they were suffering at the hands of their male relatives.
The only reason this story bothers me - and I would feel better if the jars were found speedily - is that in the 1990s I did a rather lengthy research paper on the fact that a myriad of abuse charges , especially leveled against parents, were not valid, but came about due to being misled by a breed of therapists and books.
In my research, I read of hundreds of false allegations made by adult children against their parents, and consulted many volumes of psychiatric texts written on the subject of false sexual abuse allegations: Particularly those made many years after the crime. One must wonder why these children did not tell school officials at the time of these alleged crimes; why it is coming out 2 decades later, and so forth: Needless to say, these allegations, if proved correct, point to a dreadful and damning crime:
Authorities were searching a rural property in western Missouri on Wednesday for glass jars with notes written by children who allegedly were abused by their relatives about 20 years ago.The Missouri State Highway Patrol said crews were scouring several acres of land outside Bates City in connection with the arrest of five men on various charges of sexually abusing children.
Five members of the same family — all men — were arrested Tuesday. They face charges of crimes against children, using a child in a sexual performance, forcible sodomy and forcible rape, crimes that allegedly occurred from 1988 through 1995, according to court records.
Arrested were Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, and his sons, Burrell Edward Mohler Jr., 53, also of Independence; Jared Leroy Mohler, 48, of Columbia; Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates City; and David A. Mohler, 52, of Lamoni, Iowa.
All five were being held in the Lafayette County jail on cash bonds ranging from $30,000 to $75,000. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys.
Cpl. Bill Lowe of the highway patrol said one of the alleged victims, a daughter of one of the accused, came forward to investigators in mid-August with the allegations and that her siblings have been cooperating in the probe.
Lowe said the woman told investigators that she and the other alleged victims, three girls and a boy, buried glass jars around the property, filled with messages "about what was happening to them" when they were younger.
"Right now what our main focus is the glass jars and trying to locate them," Lowe said. "Those jars have that information."
He said crews were using dogs to assist in the search on the property that had been owned by the Mohler family outside Bates City, which is about 30 miles east of Kansas City, Mo.
Five victims have been located, but the number "could possibly expand," Lowe said. He said all were under the age of 12 at the time of the alleged abuse.
The Lafayette County Sheriff's Department, the Rural Missouri Major Case Squad and the Highway Patrol were investigating, with the help of the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force.
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nur eren (not verified)at 13:34 on November 12th, 2009
If this story is true ,anımals are more respectable from those human like creatures....I can not find words,I can not build up sentences and I fail to name these ugly,pity,horrible,insane behaviours of so called grandad,father,and uncles...God damn all of them...
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PooreRobin (not verified)at 10:25 on November 17th, 2009
I hope they find the jars, just to lend credence to these claims. And if these allegations are proven true, then fry these despicable people. But I am reserving judgement until some hard evidence is found. These allegations are so unimaginable, that I can not comprehend why they are coming to light 15 years later. Something sounds suspicious. I hope I am wrong, but I think something as traumatic as these allegations would have been seen by some school officials or at church. Someone would have noticed the strange behaviors of the men, as well as the trauma that would have manifested itself in the children. I hope these allegations are not false, because then victims of real abuse will be subjugated to intense scrutiny and their stories may not be believed. This story is gaining nationwide coverage without one iota of evidence, besides the claims of the victims. We have been down that road before with the daycare abuse in the 80s as well the Duke Lacrosse team. These people were painted in the worst possible light by the media, with no recourse to fight the allegations. I am in no way defending the Mohler family, or chastising the alleged victims, but I think a rush to judgement by the police force has been made. I know that you have to investigate child abuse claims, but you also need to investigate the accusers' too, before leaking the salacious details to ever news organization out there. All I ask is why after 15 years is this story making headlines, and according to the victim why does she not remember any abuse after the age of 12 (according to the arrest warrant)? I will reserve my judgement AFTER the jars are found.