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A resident of Lake St. Louis, Missouri has been arrested and taken to St. Charles County Jail for sexually abusing two children.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the 45-year-old perpetrator had repeatedly molested two girls under age 12 for years. Another article by KMOV St. Louis states that the man was arrested on Dec. 15, and that criminal investigators are charging him with 10 counts of sexual abuse. Police do not believe that the perpetrator molested any other children.

According a report published in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 5,226 children from Missouri were victims of child abuse in 2009. 1,492 -- or 28.5 percent -- of those children were victims of sexual abuse.

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O'Leary's Bar and Restaurant in St. Louis and a Sunset Hills police officer have settled a drunk driving, dramshop and wrongful death case out of court.

A car accident caused by the suspended police officer killed the other car's four passengers instantly and seriously injured the driver. The accident, which occurred in March of 2009, came at the tail end of a night of binge drinking at O'Leary's Bar.

According to a report on the KMOV St. Louis website, a receipt recovered from the offender's purse revealed that she had drunk five Cosmopolitans, and the hospital's breathalyzer test showed the off-duty officer's blood alcohol content to be nearly three times the legal limit.

The settlement total came to a sum in excess of $2.2 million, which maxed out the amount the officer's and tavern's insurance policies would pay. The criminal case against the officer, who plead guilty, will determine how many years of prison time she will receive. The sentence is scheduled to come in spring of 2011.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 32 people die every day in the United States from auto accidents related to drunk driving.

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