Investigators search for evidence in a wooded area behind a home on a rural property near Bates City, Mo. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Authorities were searching for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family.
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Sixth arrest announced in Missouri child sex case
Investigators search for evidence in a wooded area behind a home on a rural property near Bates City, Mo. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Authorities were searching for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family.
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
LEXINGTON, Mo.—Authorities say they have identified additional victims and arrested a sixth adult in a child sex abuse case in western Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the suspect arrested Thursday night is a 55-year-old Kansas City man not related to the other five defendants. He is described as an "associate" of the others, who include a 77-year-old man and his four adult sons.
The patrol says the man was arrested without incident in Jackson County on suspicion of raping a child less than 14 years old. He has been taken to a jail in neighboring Lafayette County Jail where the other defendants also are being held.
No information was released on the additional victims.
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