MISSOURI
Lake News
The trial of a California, Mo. man charged with multiple counts of sexual child abuse in Moniteau County has been continued.
The pre-trial conference for Travis R. Smith, 43, has now been set for May 16, 2014 with the jury trial scheduled to begin Monday, June 2.
Smith is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Stover.
In September 2012, Smith was arrested by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on charges of forcible rape, sexual abuse and two counts of statutory rape in the second degree in alleged incidents that took place in March 1998 and February 1999. Smith was also then charged in Moniteau County Circuit Court with statutory rape in the second degree and statutory sodomy in the second degree related to incidents alleged to have occurred in 2005.
The allegations involve two different victims.
In June 2013, the charge of forcible sodomy for deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion was added to the charges filed against Smith. This incident was alleged to have occurred in October 1999.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.