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Summary of the Court Document

This is a 2010 opinion from the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two, in the case State of Missouri v. Robert Benedict, No. SD 29822 (decided August 20, 2010). Judge William W. Francis, Jr. authored the opinion.

Key Outcome

• The court affirmed the trial court’s judgment.
• Robert Benedict (“Appellant”) was convicted by a jury of:
• Second-degree statutory rape (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 566.034)
• Second-degree statutory sodomy (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 566.064)
• He was sentenced to two concurrent five-year prison terms.

Facts of the Case

• In January 2006, Benedict (then age 40) began a sexual relationship with K.W., a 14-year-old girl.
• The relationship involved sexual intercourse and oral sex, occurring approximately once a week until the fall of 2006.
• K.W. explicitly told Benedict her age at the start.
• They communicated via emails, text messages, and cell phones.
• K.W.’s mother discovered incriminating emails and pictures on her daughter’s phone and reported it to police.
• Benedict was subsequently charged and convicted of the two felony sex offenses.

Procedural Note

The opinion briefly discusses the defense counsel’s access to the prosecutor’s file under Missouri’s open-file policy in early 2008, but the visible portion of the document cuts off mid-sentence in that section.

Bottom line: The appeals court upheld Benedict’s convictions and sentences for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old minor when he was 40.

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Facts

On August 20, 2010, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two, affirmed the convictions of Robert Eugene Benedict in Case No. SD 29822. A jury had found him guilty of second-degree statutory rape (Missouri Revised Statutes section 566.034) and second-degree statutory sodomy (section 566.064). He was sentenced to two concurrent five-year prison terms.

The facts of the case are as follows: In January 2006, Benedict (then age 40) began a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, K.W. The relationship included sexual intercourse and oral sex approximately once per week until the fall of 2006. K.W. told Benedict her age. They communicated through emails, text messages, and phone calls. The girl’s mother discovered incriminating evidence on her daughter’s phone and contacted police.

Robert Eugene Benedict, now 59, is a registered sex offender based on the 2006 Missouri convictions. On April 16, 2026, he was booked into Shawnee County custody in Topeka on a felony warrant for aggravated indecent liberties with a child (fondling). He is being held with no bond. Multiple local sources identify him as a City of Topeka employee at the time of this recent arrest.

This information is a matter of public record from court documents and recent news reports.

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