After he pleaded guilty to statutory rape and sodomy charges, a Greene County man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Jan. 27.
Dakota James Trogdon, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree statutory rape or attempted rape, one charge of statutory sodomy/deviate sexual intercourse and one charge of second-degree statutory rape.
Greene County Circuit Judge Jerry Harmison sentenced Trogdon to 10 years for the first-degree statutory rape charge and 10 years for the statutory sodomy charge — with those sentences to run consecutively. Harmison sentenced Trogdon to seven years for the second-degree statutory rape charge, but that sentence will run concurrently with the other sentences.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped three charges of child molestation and one charge of statutory sodomy against Trogdon.
According to a probable cause statement written by an officer with the Republic Police Department, one incident occurred sometime between 2018 and 2019, when the victim was 8 and Trogdon was 21. This victim was interviewed by at the Child Advocacy Center in Springfield.
Another incident between Trogdon and a 15-year-old happened around the same time. This victim became pregnant, the officer wrote in the report.
A third victim also reported being sexually assaulted by Trogdon between 2018 and 2019. She was 16, and the contact occurred in Branson.
Police officers interviewed the two older victims.
In 2022, a treatment team staffed by licensed social workers and licensed professional counselors reported to police that Trogdon’s risk to reoffend was high and that “outpatient sexual offender treatment is not appropriate for management of his risk for re-offense,” according to court documents.
“Due to the pervasiveness of Mr. Trogdon’s sexual offending pattern and inability to fully determine the victim profile and offense patterns, it is recommended that Mr. Trogdon be referred to the Greene County Prosecuting Attorney’s office for assessment of appropriateness for civil commitment through its Missouri Department of Mental Health due to risk to public safety,” the treatment team wrote.
