A Springfield man mistakenly released from jail while facing 19 felony child sexual assault charges has been caught by immigration authorities at Atlanta Airport. Officials say it appears Antonio Alburquerque had gone to the Dominican Republican and was returning to this country. The charges against him in Springfield say he started assaulting a child younger than 14 in late 1992 and continued doing it until the end of 1994.

A former Cape Girardeau high school science teacher has been found not guilty of a charge that he assaulted a 16-year old student. The boy says teacher Roman Smith applied a choke hold and clamped his feet around the boy’s waist. The Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian reports jurors did not buy testimony from three students.

The boyfriend of a Southwest Missouri woman is suspected of causing the death of his girlfriend’s 22-month old son. The Newton County sheriff has arrested the man after the child’s mother called 911 to report her son was not breathing

State law says wrongful death lawsuits have to be filed within three years of the death. But a Jackson County judge says the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic diocese has engaged in cover-up, fraud, and concealment of abuse by a priest so much that the statute of imitations doesn’t protect it from a lawsuit. The judge has dismissed the Diocese effort to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit against it filed by the parents of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself in 1983. The priest faces about 25 sexual abuse lawsuits.

Another blistering day for Missouri. The National Weather Service says only nine of the 28 cities where it gathers data will have high temperatures of less than 100 degrees today; Chillicothe, Joplin and Springfield, will only make it to 99. St.Joseph and Clinton are forecast to top out at 98. Kirksville 97, Maryville 96, and Kahoka at 95 are the cities forecast to be less than an official 100 degrees today. The outlook for the next week is for highs in the upper 90s or in triple digits.