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Many back Missouri incest suspect By Judy L. Thomas, Donald Bradley
and Brian Burnes MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS 11/23/2009 KANSAS
CITY ....Mohler's reputation as the strict but good patriarch would
come crashing down. He's in jail now, after allegations from at least
three grandchildren that "sleepovers" on his farm often meant
incestuous rape, and that when granddaddy sang "Itsy-Bitsy Spider,"
his hands ended up in wrong places. After allegations that their
uncles wedded and bedded first-graders in a chicken coop and that
their father did unspeakable things to them less than a mile from that
little white church. Once the charges - 42 so far - were filed, it
seemed the Mohler family was shattered as irreparably as the bad-
memory jars the little girls purportedly buried and authorities
earlier this month hoped to dig up....Yet all or nearly all six
children of Burrell "Ed" Mohler Jr. gave credence to the tales of
twisted family relationships, according to court documents. Nor did it
help the senior Mohler's legal defense or public image as a
grandfather when police hauled incest pornography out of his home in
Independence, Mo. While some question the validity of the accusations,
others may ask why authorities did not investigate earlier. In the
1980s or early '90s, at least some of the grandchildren reportedly
went to their mother about the abuse, according to police documents.
Instead of going to law enforcement, she told the head of her Mormon
church. And nothing happened.
An Overland Park, Kan., man, who once shared custody of his 7-year-old
son with an ex-wife who married into the Mohler family, said he tried
to alert the Lafayette County sheriff, the Missouri Division of Family
Services and a court-appointed guardian to what he feared was
happening at the Mohler place.
"I notified everybody I could notify in February 2000 about this."
Then, three months ago, an Independence police detective told the man
there were multiple victims, "and my son was on the list." "I said:
'You mean it took them nine years to figure this out?'"
Many of the allegations directed at the Mohlers defy what experts
encounter in sex abuse situations - group encounters involving
children within the same family are rare, primarily because they are
less apt to be kept secret. Still, there are cases of incest being so
ingrained in a household that, for some families, "the act becomes
normalized ... a family value, as common as Sunday dinners or watching
football on TV," said Joseph Beck, a therapy director at Spofford
Home, a Kansas City nonprofit that treats children with severe
emotional problems. "Although it's abnormal, it becomes, 'This is how
we do things,'" Beck said, adding that victims can be trained early in
life not to trust the outside world.
Clinicians widely believe that child molestation, especially within a
household, is driven more by urges to be violent and exert power than
act out instilled sexual practices. "It's not about sex. It's about
power and control," said Judith Ann Cohen, who specializes in child-
rape cases at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. "A man who
feels he is king of his castle gets to abuse his children because,
well, you can if you're king of your castle." Beck agreed. "Usually it
revolves around a single patriarch of a family, the man in power."
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