Mistrial declared in child sex crime case after jury is deadlocked
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A mistrial was declared in a Columbia child sex crime case after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on Thursday.
Francisco Rutiaga-Santoyo, 49, is charged with two counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and one count of first-degree child molestation. He is being held at the Boone County Jail. A status hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17.
Court documents in previous reporting claim Rutiaga-Santoyo was “removed from” the country at the time the document was written in 2023.
The probable cause statement says a child victim told law enforcement that Rutiaga-Santoyo sexually assaulted them over the course of multiple years.