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Man charged with first-degree statutory rape in Saline County
The county jail roster lists two charges and no bond. No disposition is recorded.
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Production note: Prepared from the Saline County public jail roster, retained as the record this booking was projected from, and from the text of the two Missouri statutes described above. The county's record publishes no statute reference for either charge, no bond, felony class, case number, docket number or court, and names no arresting agency; no disposition is recorded. The statutes are quoted as legal context and are attributed to the Missouri Revised Statutes, not to the roster; the roster states no degree for the statutory sodomy charge and none is inferred. Court-record enrichment was not attempted for this booking, so no search of court filings was performed and no conclusion about the existence or status of a court case should be drawn. Nothing about the alleged victim is published; the age threshold that appears is part of the charge's own name and of the statute's stated elements.
William Johnson, 44, was booked into the Saline County jail on August 13, 2026, according to the county's public jail roster, which records the same date for the arrest.
The roster lists two charges. The first is statutory rape in the first degree, which the roster itself describes as sexual intercourse with a person less than 14 years old. The second is recorded only as statutory sodomy, with no degree stated. The roster lists no bond for either charge and publishes no statute reference, case number, docket number or court, and it states no felony class.
Because the county's record cites no statute, the following is the text of the Missouri Revised Statutes rather than anything the roster published. Section 566.032 provides that a person commits statutory rape in the first degree by having sexual intercourse with another person who is less than fourteen years of age, and sets a penalty of life imprisonment or a term of years not less than ten, rising to not less than fifteen where the offence is an aggravated sexual offence or the victim is under twelve. Missouri defines statutory sodomy separately by degree; section 566.062 provides that a person commits statutory sodomy in the first degree by having deviate sexual intercourse with another person who is less than fourteen years of age, and sets a penalty of life imprisonment or a minimum of five years, rising to ten on the same aggravating findings. The roster does not say which degree of statutory sodomy is charged, so no degree is attributed here. Those penalties are what the statutes provide upon conviction, and are not statements about this case.
No disposition is recorded. The available records establish a booking and two charges and nothing beyond that: no plea, no finding, no hearing outcome and no filed case number is reflected in what the county publishes.
A booking record describes allegations made by law enforcement. It does not establish guilt and it is not a conviction. Johnson is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
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