(From the Newton County Prosecuting Attorney's Office)
A Neosho man entered a plea of guilty in McDonald County Circuit Court to a count of rape in the first degree and was sentenced to 15 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.
In the spring of 2020, the juvenile victim gave a disclosure to a forensic interviewer at the Children's Center in Joplin, Missouri that the defendant had committed the rape between August of 2017 and August of 2018 when the juvenile victim was 13 or 14 years old. Murillo pleaded guilty to the rape on September 8.
"Martin Murillo, Jr., will spend the next decade and a half in the Department of Corrections. It is difficult to find justice for juvenile sexual assault survivors in a way that doesn't further their trauma through repeatedly having to relive the experience of the rape through repeatedly testifying," said Newton County Prosecuting Attorney William Lynch.
"The criminal justice can be difficult on sexual assault survivors, and we have to remain cognizant of their trauma while also holding criminal defendants accountable."
The case was investigated by Detective Rodney Howe of the Neosho Police Department and prosecuted by William Lynch and J. D. Hatcher of the Newton County Prosecutor's Office.
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