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Mistrial declared in child sex crime case after jury is deadlocked

Francisco Rutiaga-Santoyo
Boone County Sheriff's Office
Francisco Rutiaga-Santoyo
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Published 6:41 PM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A mistrial was declared in a Columbia child sex crime case after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on Thursday.

Francisco Rutiaga-Santoyo, 49, is charged with two counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and one count of first-degree child molestation.  He is being held at the Boone County Jail. A status hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17.

Court documents in previous reporting claim Rutiaga-Santoyo was “removed from” the country at the time the document was written in 2023.

The probable cause statement says a child victim told law enforcement that Rutiaga-Santoyo sexually assaulted them over the course of multiple years.

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