The Phelps County Prosecuting Attorney filed child sex crimes charges Wednesday against a former Doolittle police officer.

Carl E. Swanson, 41, is charged with first-degree child molestation, second-degree statutory rape and second-degree statutory sodomy, according to court records.

A probable cause statement written by a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant alleges that Swanson sodomized and raped a child who was living with him starting when they were 13 and continuing over several years.

The probable cause statement said the victim told investigators the assaults happened at Swanson's home in St. James and in his office at the Doolittle Police Department. The victim said Swanson sodomized them more than 200 times, according to the probable cause statement.

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