Shocking but not surprising: Father and sons accused of raping family women

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I’d like to say that I was shocked by this week’s story of five men charged with sexually abusing young girls and a boy in their own family.

But after what we learned in January about Danial Rinehart and the allegations that he impregnated one of his daughters four times (only one of the children survived), I’m not surprised by the allegations against the Mohler men.

I can’t be anymore. It’d be naive to think that this shit doesn’t happen all the time here because it does. 

So yesterday investigators searched a farm near Bates City for jars buried in the ground with notes in them, left by children claiming they’d been sexually abused by men in the Mohler family. The children were supposedly told if they buried their bad memories, they’d go away.

If the allegations are true, the bury-your-bad-memories plan might bite the Mohler men in the ass.

The Star‘s Donald Bradley has a thorough story this morning, saying authorities were searching the farm “for evidence of rape, sodomy, beastiality and possible homicide.”