November 25, 2009
Search Continues In Mo. Sex Abuse Case
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Investigators have seized more computers and videotapes as they investigate claims from several family members who say they were sexually abused as children by adult relatives. The items were taken Friday when authorities returned to the Independence home of 77-year-old Burrell Mohler Sr. Col. Ben Kenney of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office says there is a belief that "some of these assaults are on those tapes." A warrant says the alleged victims remembered having to pose for pictures in "a sexual and provocative manner."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Search Warrant Executed On Mohler Property
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Investigators said a search warrant served Monday night at the Jackson County home of Burrell Mohler Jr. turned up boxes of books and a couple of journals, but nothing overtly incriminating. Col. Ben Kenney of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said a former wife of Burrell Mohler Jr., who goes by his middle name "Ed," called and told investigators about a storage shed at Mohler's residence. Mohler, along with his father, three brothers and an uncle are jailed on charges of raping and molesting young relatives over roughly a decade beginning in the mid-1980s. Other accusations include impregnating at least two girls and forcing one to have an abortion when she was 11.