Monday, September 08, 2025

Golden City sex offender charged with two felonies after attending youth football games

 


A 10 a.m. October 14 court date is scheduled in Dade County Circuit Court for Emily Edson, 44, Golden City, a sex offender who was charged with two counts of violating lifetime supervision, both felonies, after attending youth football games at Dykens Field in Greenfield August 23 and August 25.

According to the probable cause statement, Edson was asked to leave and did so on August 23 after she had been at the field for an hour.

She returned two days later.







From the probable cause statement:

Edson stated her nephew was playing tackle football. She went to the parking lot and watched him play for 20 minutes. She stated she sat in the car and had a chaperone with her and did not know she could not be there.

According to the probable cause statement, under the conditions of her lifetime supervision, Edson has to receive advanced approval from the Department of Corrections Command Center.

Edson was sentenced to four years in prison in 2020 after pleading guilty in Barton County Circuit Court in Lamar to two counts of possession of child pornography, three counts of sexual misconduct involving a child by indecent exposure and one count of enticement of a child. 

The charges against Edson were in connections with incidents occurring at Lamar Middle School in 2017.

The initial arrest of Edson, who was a senior at Missouri Southern State University at the time, came less than two months after she received the top award for middle school education from the School of Arts and Sciences during the annual Academic Achievement Ceremony.








The probable cause statement says a student was interviewed who said his teacher, Edson, "had asked him to have sex with her several times, would speak 'sexually.' to him and had sent him a nude photo.

The 2017 probable cause statement indicated that while executing a search warrant on Edson's phone, the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force uncovered photos depicting two naked underage boys either having anal intercourse or simulating the act.

The search was in connection with a separate Lamar Police Department investigation that eventually led to the new charges.

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