Sex offender charged with rape, sodomy, child molestation in Callaway County
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A registered sex offender has been charged in Callaway County with several sex crimes.
Bradford Beck, 51, was charged on Thursday with four counts of child molestation, three counts of first-degree sodomy, three counts of first-degree rape and two counts of tampering with a victim in a felony prosecution. His address on Casenet is listed as Columbia, though the sex offender registry shows his address as Holts Summit.
Beck is in the Callaway County Jail without bond. An initial court appearance was scheduled for Friday morning.
The probable cause statement says one of the child victims told their mother on Tuesday they were raped by Beck at about four of five times from the end of December through the end of January. During the first assault, Beck allegedly gave the youth alcohol and marijuana before raping them, court documents say.
After one of the assaults, Beck allegedly told the child to not tell anyone because he could “be in jail for the rest of his life,” the statement says. He then accused that victim of “ruining his life,” after he was confronted by the victim’s mother, court documents say.
A second child victim came forward to law enforcement after they saw Beck was listed on the Callaway County Jail’s online roster on Wednesday. Beck allegedly started raping that victim in November and had threatened to hurt members of their family, while also bribing the child with gifts, the statement says.
Court records show Beck pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2015, to sexual misconduct involving a child younger than 15 years old and was sentenced to two years in prison.
