KANSAS CITY, Mo. Calling the abuse at a southwest Missouri reform school “extensive and horrific,” Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday a long list of charges against its owners. Boyd and Stephanie Householder, who owned Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Cedar County until it closed in September, have been charged with 102 crimes all felonies but one that include statutory rape, .
The owners of a former Christian reform school for girls in southwest Missouri are charged with more than 100 counts alleging they sexually, emotionally and physically abused girls for years.
Mo. attorney general files dozens of abuse charges against operators of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Cedar Co. Authorities arrested Boyd and Stephanie Householder on 102 criminal charges. (Gray News) (Source: Gray News) By KY3 Staff | March 11, 2021 at 8:16 AM CST - Updated March 11 at 8:16 AM
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) - The Missouri Attorney General’s Office filed numerous charges of abuse against the operators of the Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Cedar County.
Authorities arrested Boyd and Stephanie Householder.
They remain jailed in the Vernon County Jail in Nevada, Mo.
Boyd Householder faces 80 charges.
Stephanie Householder faces 22 charges.
Boyd Householder faces 79 felony charges and one misdemeanor, including six counts of second-degree statutory rape, seven counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, six counts of sexual contact with a student, one count of second-degree child molestation, 56 counts of abuse or neglect of a child, and two counts of endanger