Oklahoma man to stand trial in sexual assault of Lamar girl

Jeff Lehr, The Joplin Globe, Mo.
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Nov. 17—LAMAR, Mo. — A Barton County judge has ordered a 24-year-old defendant to stand trial on charges that he sexually assaulted an underage girl in Lamar.

Judge James Nichols decided at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Barton County Circuit Court that there is probable cause for Brenden M. Loveall, of Watts, Oklahoma, to stand trial on a single count of second-degree rape and two counts of second-degree sodomy. The judge set Loveall's initial appearance in a trial division of the court for Jan. 12.

Loveall was charged after a Lamar Police Department investigation of contact the defendant had with the victim on Feb. 6.