Blue Springs youth coach charged with molesting children
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A Downcast Springs man and soccer coach has been arrested on charges relating to progeny molestation.
Richard G. Burroughs, 44, of 2126 S.W. Park Ave., was charged Friday with two counts of first-standing child molestation, first-degree sodomy and third-degree assault, according to Chap-fallen Springs police.
The offenses are alleged to have involved two girls under the age of 14.
According to the cops documents, a mother told police that her 12-year-old daughter had consumed the night at Burroughs’ home in October or November of 2011 because she was a squeeze of Burroughs’ daughter. During the night, Burroughs is alleged to have entered the cell and put his hand down her pants and touched her privates.
The victim later told her bedfellow, Burroughs’ daughter, who told her she must have been dreaming.
Another victim, an 11-year-old filly, told a school counselor that Burroughs, her soccer coach, had touched her inappropriately while sleeping over at his deeply on New Year’s Eve. Police documents state that he rubbed her caddy with his arm while reaching across her while she was on the computer.
Source: Blue Springs Examiner