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Bowling Green couple sentenced for statutory sodomy
Posted: 10.26.2009 at 9:26 PM
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BOWLING GREEN, MO -- [A Bowling Green couple that admitted forcing their 12-year-old daughter to perform sex acts has been sentenced to prison.

The Hannibal Courier-Post reports 41-year-old William Fockler got 20 years for pleading guilty to statutory sodomy and child endangerment.

30-year-old Erin Fockler received 12 years for pleading guilty to statutory sodomy and child endangerment.

Each spouse accused the other of forcing the 12-year-old to perform sexual acts last March while the couple sat nude on either side of the girl and watched a pornographic movie.

William Fockler also admitted to sex acts with the victim two more times in her bedroom without his wife's knowledge.

The victim and her 8-year-old brother have been placed in foster care.

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