More details have been released about a former rural Mountain Home man charged with rape of a minor in southeast Missouri. Bond for 41-year-old Matthew Austin Prewett, who has a current address in Kennett, Missouri, is set at $1 million. He is facing six felony charges in connection with the case.
According to the probable cause statement in the case, Kennett police were notified by a Missouri Department of Social Services Children’s Division worker about the case after being informed by a social worker with Barnes-Jewish Children’s Hospital in St. Louis that they were treating a girl who had been sexually assaulted.
The victim’s mother told law enforcement, she noticed the letter “M” pop up on her daughter’s phone and asked who it was. She took her daughter’s phone, opened the Snapchat message and discovered it was the father of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend.
The mother gave consent to police to conduct a search of the cell phone where they found pornographic messages, pictures and videos of both Prewett and the underage victim. A second phone found by the victim’s mother, also contained pornographic texts, pictures and videos.
The photographs and videos had a date range from December 8 of last year through April 28.
Prewett is charged with one count of rape of a person 14 years-of-age or younger, two counts of deviate sexual intercourse with a person 14-years-of-age or younger, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of enticement of a child. He is being held in the Dunklin County Jail in Kennett.
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