(AP) – A trial has been scheduled for late next year for a
Missouri man accused of sexually attacking and suffocating his daughter, a high
school honors student, at a motel.
Forty-year-old Jerry Bausby has pleaded not guilty to Jackson County charges
of first-degree murder, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse in the March death of
18-year-old Daizsa Laye Bausby. A judge set his trial to begin on Nov. 27 of
next year.
Authorities say Daizsa Bausby’s body was found March 22 in a Kansas City motel
room. A medical examiner concluded the teenager died of asphyxia by smothering.
Police say Bausby denied having sexual contact with his daughter, and that lab
tests later showed genetic material swabbed from Jerry Bausby’s body matched the
victim’s DNA.
Bausby remains jailed on $750,000 cash bond.
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