Montgomery County man charged with several child sex crimes
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Montgomery County man was charged on Thursday with several counts related to child sex crimes.
Dante Lawrence, of Jonesburg, was charged with three counts of statutory sodomy of a victim younger than 12 years old and three counts second-degree child molestation of a youth younger than 12 years old. A warrant was issued and no bond was set.
Two probable cause statements were filed in the case. The first detailed four separate assaults when the victim was 9-10 years old and Lawrence was 20-21 years old.
A second probable cause statement describes another assault on a victim when they were 9 or 10 years old in 2019.