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Amish man accused of sex crimes with children
Posted: 06.08.2010 at 1:25 PM
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BOWLING GREEN, Mo. (AP) -- An Amish man from northeast Missouri is accused of sexually assaulting five girls, ages 5 to 15.

KXEO Radio reports that 26-year-old Chester Mast of Curryville was arrested in late May.

Pike County, Mo., Sheriff Stephen Korte said four of the victims were from Pike County and one was from Waushara County, Wis., where Mast lived for a time.

Mast is jailed in Pike County on $100,000 bond, but Korte said that if he posts bond, he will be extradicted to Wisconsin and held without bond.

Mast had no listed attorney on Tuesday.

He is charged in Missouri with two counts of statutory rape, two counts of statutory sodomy and one count of sexual misconduct involving a child. He is charged with sexual assault and incest in the Wisconsin case.

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