BOY ACCUSED OF SEX CRIMES

A 14-year-old Cape Girardeau boy is accused of committing sex crimes against two 13-year-old girls.

The girls told police they were at the boy's home in southeast Cape Girardeau on Sunday when they were sexually assaulted by the boy, officer Chris Muench said.

The boy, a Cape Girardeau public schools student, was taken into custody Tuesday by juvenile authorities and cited into juvenile court on suspicion of first-degree statutory rape and first-degree sexual misconduct.

Statutory rape implies that someone under the age of 14 had sex. Muench said the investigation did not indicate forcible rape, which implies that a victim was forced to have intercourse.