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Stephanie Dawn Crawford charged with first-degree child molestation in Polk County
The sheriff’s record lists a September 23 booking and allegations of child molestation and abuse or neglect.
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Production note: AI-assisted editorial draft based on the exact Polk County Sheriff’s Office booking response retained September 25, 2026, its live September 27 response, Missouri’s official statutes and a September 24 KOLR Springfield report syndicated by AOL. Retained booking and mugshot bytes were read back and verified by length and SHA-256. The explicit source citation 568.060.5(1) was restored to both corresponding structured charge fields through the approved parser repair; the source’s descriptions and all record identities were preserved. No exact statute citation was published for the first-degree child-molestation entries; section 566.067 is attributed only as general legal context. The current section 568.060 version is effective August 28, 2025; the Revisor states that it remains effective until January 1, 2028. The future 2028 version was excluded. The source’s subsection numbering is preserved, and the governing version for this case is unverified. Automated case enrichment could not run a court search because no court-document source is configured for this jurisdiction. Official Case.net access returned HTTP 403 with an automated-extraction restriction; no manual court-index query completed and no matching court document or disposition was obtained. KOLR’s count description is secondary reporting, not an independently obtained court record. The source bond field of $0 does not establish a no-bond order; current court-imposed bond conditions and custody are unverified. Human editorial approval is recorded in the article review status.
Stephanie Dawn Crawford was booked on September 23, 2026, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri. The official entry, checked again September 27, identifies the booking as 26-0507 and lists the Sheriff’s Office as the arresting agency.
The page displays four charge entries: “CHILD MOLESTATION - 1ST DEGREE” appears twice, and “ABUSE OR NEGLECT OF A CHILD UNDER SECTION 568.060.5(1) - NO SEXUAL CONTACT” appears twice. These are the source’s charge descriptions. A September 24 report by KOLR Springfield, syndicated by AOL, separately described two counts of each offense, citing online court dockets.
Missouri Revised Statutes section 566.067 provides general legal context for first-degree child molestation. It addresses sexual contact involving a child within the statute’s specified age category when the offense meets the law’s aggravated-sexual-offense requirement. The current provision classifies the offense as a Class A felony. That is a description of the law, not a finding that Crawford committed its elements.
For the abuse-or-neglect entries, the sheriff’s wording expressly cites section 568.060.5(1) and includes the qualifier “NO SEXUAL CONTACT.” The current official text of section 568.060 addresses knowingly causing injury through abuse or neglect, knowingly creating a risk of such injury, and a separate provision concerning reckless abusive head trauma. Its definitions distinguish abuse from a failure to provide required care. These are general legal descriptions, not additional allegations about Crawford.
The state’s current version of section 568.060 places its penalty classifications in subsection 6. The sheriff’s subsection 5(1) citation is reproduced as published; it should not be silently substituted with a different subsection. Determining the applicable statutory version requires the charging record and alleged offense date.
No disposition is recorded in the available booking entry. The listed charges are allegations, and Crawford is presumed innocent unless and until convicted.
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