Columbia woman charged in Callaway County with child molestation, sodomy

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Columbia woman has been arrested after she was accused of sexually abusing a child in Callaway County over the course of several years.

Samantha Flansburg, 21, was charged Wednesday in Callaway County with statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and second-degree child molestation. She is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond and a court date has not been scheduled.

The probable cause statement says the child victim told law enforcement in September that they were abused by Flansburg from 2019-24 and that the victim was 6 years old when the abuse began. The victim described several occurrences of abuse, with the last time occurring when Flansburg would have been considered an adult, court documents describe.

Flansburg allegedly told the victim not to tell anyone about the abuse, the statement says.

Court documents say Flansburg allegedly admitted to one instance of abuse about a year before the victim moved away.

A witness described as the victim’s mother allegedly told deputies she at one point noticed a number of signs of possible abuse occurring because of the victim’s behavior, the statement says.