MISSOURI
Connect MidMissouri
by Mark Slavit
A four-and-a-half hour hearing to determine whether child sex charges against a former priest should be dismissed was held at the Cooper County Courthouse.
Prosecutors charged Gerald Howard with eight felony counts, including sodomy and kidnapping.
The victims said the sexual abuse happened between 1984 and 1987.
The hearing was on a motion to dismiss filed by Howard’s attorney in July.
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