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Man Says His Son A Mohler Victim

Father Says He Has Documents To Prove He Reported Concerns

POSTED: 11:02 am CST November 15, 2009
UPDATED: 10:05 pm CST November 15, 2009

A Kansas City metro father said he believes his son is likely one of the victims of a family charged with numerous child sex crimes and said he reported the abuse years ago.

"I found out from Burrell Ed Mohler Jr.'s ex-wife," Mark Young said.

Young said he tracked down Jeanette Mohler in 2000, after he said the Liberty School District called him to report his son had been missing from school for 30 days. The boy's mother married Ed Mohler Jr. in 1999.

"I couldn't conceive, the stories she was telling me about sexual abuse and she did advise my son was in extreme danger," Young said.

Since February 2000, Young said he has collected more than 300 pages of documents from the Division of Family Services. He said the documents consist of his verbal and written complaints that he believed Ed Mohler Jr. sexually abused his son. He said he even called the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department to check on his son's welfare and notified a court appointed guardian named in DFS reports as Pete Schloss.

"He said, 'Well, I don't know what you want me to do. I like Mr. Mohler and I think you're starting trouble,'" Young said.

Young showed KCTV5 a report taken by the the DFS in March of 2000. There is a box checked "no" next to "child sexual abuse suspected." Young said this the report was taken one month after he called the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department concerned his son was being held on a Bates City, Mo., farm.

Six members of the Mohler family are charged with sexual crimes against children. Some of the men served as laymen clergy at the Community Christ Temple.

A letter Young has, written by the Latter Day Saints organization in Utah, insisted the church had the right to "check the boy's worthiness to the church," a process Young alleges involved isolating the boy on the Bates City farm.

"I want them to know somebody was there, somebody reported it, and how nothing got done is beyond me," Young said.

Ten years later, he hopes others are listening.

"I'm stepping up to the plate as Mark Young, father of an alleged victim," Young said. "If there are any other people out there that think they need to talk to somebody, step up to the plate."

The Lafayette County Sheriff said Friday he is not aware of any prior sexual abuse allegations in connection with the Mohler family.

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