State v. Starke

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was charged with making a false report to the Jefferson City Police Department and to the Child Abuse Hotline after he reported his daughter told him her mother’s boyfriend had made her touch his genitals. The appellant and the child’s mother were at the time locked in a custody battle. A jury convicted him on one count based on § 575.080.1(1), RSMo 1986, for giving false information to a law enforcement officer for the purpose of implicating another person in a crime (a class B misdemeanor), and one count for calling in a false child abuse hotline…