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Man gets 18 years for sodomy, incest

Valerie Verkamp by Valerie Verkamp
December 11, 2019
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Nicholas Lara, 30, of Blue Springs pled guilty and was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for statutory sodomy and four years for incest in a case involving a five-year-old girl in Platte County.

The sentencing will run concurrently.

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According to court documents, the mother of the victim immediately phoned police after her five-year-old daughter informed her that 30-year-old Nicholas Lara had tried to have intercourse with her with while she was staying at her father’s residence located in the 3800 block of NW 66th Terrace in Kansas City.

Court documents say the alleged deviate sexual intercourse occurred on June 15, 2017. In a forensic interview the alleged victim recalled lying in bed with Lara and neither having any clothes on. Lara, court documents say, tried to put his penis in the victim’s vagina and stopped when she said “Oww oww.”

A grand jury indicted Nicholas Lara, 30, who moved to Blue Springs, on Nov. 30, 2018 with statutory sodomy in the first degree and two counts of incest.

Lara denied the allegations made against him, claiming the alleged victim is either untruthful or being coached by her mother, states the probable cause statement. At police headquarters, Lara claimed after a night of drinking beer at a relative’s house, he and his daughter got a ride home with his cousin. The alleged victim fell asleep on the way home and he took her to his bedroom to sleep.

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Valerie Verkamp

Valerie Verkamp

Valerie decided she wanted to be a newspaper reporter when she was 28 years old and she successfully convinced the editor of the Platte County Landmark to give it 30 days. Now with The Landmark for over a decade, she has written countless stories on local government, education, lawsuits, community news, crime, and the prison system. Valerie hails from Park University with a BA in Elementary Education and a post-baccalaureate degree in paralegal studies from Penn Valley Community College. She has received honorable mention for Best Government News Story and joined her Landmark colleagues as recipient of the General Excellence Award in the Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Missouri Press Association.

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