37-year-old man charged with statutory rape, child molestation
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A 37-year-old man from Mexico, Missouri, was charged on Monday with several child sex crimes in Audrain County.
David Eugene Power II was charged with child enticement, four counts of second-degree statutory rape and one count of fourth-degree child molestation. A warrant was served and a hearing was held on Tuesday morning.
The probable cause statement says the youth described multiple assaults to law enforcement that occurred March 13-14.
The child showed law enforcement text messages that allegedly showed Power trying to initiate sexual contact and a person described as a witness told law enforcement that Power admitted to the assaults, the statement says.
Power also allegedly admitted the assaults to law enforcement, the statement says.