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Latest charges against the Mohlers may be the last in Lafayette County

11/20/2009 12:27 AM

For the young sisters in the Mohler family, summers were the worst because that’s when they had to go to their grandfather’s farm. That’s what the sisters, now grown women, have told authorities who on Thursday filed 11 more charges in a child sex abuse case that has shocked the country.

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