Crime & Safety
Man Raped, Sodomized 11-Year-Old Wentzville Girl, Prosecutor Says
Mark A. Taylor was charged Wednesday by the St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office for subjected a girl to sexual touching and had sexual relations with her between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31 in 2012.

A man faces criminal charges for molesting an 11-year-old girl in Wentzville.
Mark A. Taylor, 26, was charged Wednesday by the St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office with first-degree statutory rape and first-degree statutory sodomy.
Wentzville Police said Taylor subjected the girl to sexual touching and had sexual relations with her between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31 in 2012. The girl told police she had asked Taylor to stop, but he wouldn't listen. Taylor had been staying with the girl’s family at a motel in Wentzville at the time.
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Taylor is being held in St. Charles County jail in lieu of a $100,000, cash-only bond.
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