Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Feds say Joplin man facing child porn charges should be held without bond

Federal prosecutors want a Joplin man charged with receiving and distributing child pornography to remain behind bars while awaiting trial.

A detention hearing for Richard Ray Thuerauf, 49, will be held 1 p.m. Thursday in U. S. District Court in Springfield.

In a motion for detention, prosecutors asked that Thuerauf be held without bond, not only for his alleged crimes, but also as a result of a Missouri Department of Health and Human Services investigation into how Thuerauf was treating his wife.

According to the motion, the DHHS, following an investigation, confirmed Thuerauf was mistreating his disabled wife by not bathing her from June 18 through July 17, 2017, not feeding her adequately and mishandling the money she received for her disability.

The motion also noted that Thuerauf had more than 1,000 child pornography images on his cell phone and 282 more on his iCloud account.

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