MISSOURI
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MONITEAU COUNTY, Mo. — The case of a Stover pastor charged with statutory rape and sexual abuse will go to a jury trial next year.
Rev. Travis Ray Smith, age 43, is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Stover, Mo.
He is charged with two counts of 2nd Degree Statutory Rape, one count of Forcible Rape, and one count of Sexual Abuse. He pled Not Guilty to the charges at a hearing in the Moniteau County Circuit Court on July 12, 2013.
Over the past four years, Smith has been accused of molestation or statutory rape in the cases of four different girls. Two of those accusations were made in 2010, but one case was dropped and Smith was acquitted in the other.
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