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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 01:50 PM Dec 2021

Fugitive boarding school doctor accused of child sex crimes has been taken into custody

A Missouri boarding school doctor accused of several child sex crimes has been taken into custody in Arkansas. The Kansas City Star reports that 57-year-old David Smock was captured Tuesday night in Harrison, Arkansas, not far from the Missouri border. He had been considered a fugitive for several days.

Smock has been the longtime physician for
Agape Boarding School, a Christian school that remains under scrutiny after
five staffers were charged in September with assaulting students.

Smock was charged Dec. 23 with second-degree statutory sodomy, third-degree child molestation of a child less than 14 years of age and enticement or attempted enticement of a child less than 15 years of age, court records show.

Five other employees of the school were charged in September with a total of 13 third-degree felony assault counts.

https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2021/12/fugitive-boarding-school-doctor-accused-of-child-sex-crimes-has-been-taken-into-custody.html

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Fugitive boarding school doctor accused of child sex crimes has been taken into custody (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Dec 2021 OP
Paging QAnon... orwell Dec 2021 #1
Still in custody in Arkansas. TexasTowelie Jan 2022 #2

orwell

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Wed Dec 29, 2021, 01:54 PM
Dec 2021

...time to "do the research".

What has two legs and molests children...

A RePubLickCon...

Just sayin...

TexasTowelie

(112,144 posts)
2. Still in custody in Arkansas.
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 08:05 AM
Jan 2022
Agape Boarding School doctor to remain in Arkansas custody during COVID isolation


David E. Smock, the Agape Boarding School physician accused of 11 felony sex crimes against children, remained in custody Tuesday at an Arkansas jail where he was booked a week ago, after several days during which he was allegedly on the run from law enforcement.

Meanwhile, Smock's defense team in Missouri sought his release on bond for the second time in two days.

Smock's Springfield-based attorney, Stacie Bilyeu, told a Greene County court she had not been able to speak to her client since the doctor was apprehended with the help of U.S. Marshals in Harrison, Arkansas three days after Christmas.

On Monday in Cedar County, where Agape Boarding School is based, Judge Gary Troxell denied a motion from Smock's attorneys to set bond or release him on his own recognizance.


More at https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2022/01/05/agape-boarding-school-doctor-david-smock-accused-of-sex-crimes-remain-covid-isolation-arkansas-jail/9077355002/
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