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Report: School doctor accused of child sex crimes arrested in Arkansas

A boarding school doctor accused of several child sex crimes has been taken into custody in Arkansas.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Missouri boarding school doctor accused of several child sex crimes has been taken into custody in Arkansas.

The Kansas City Star reports that 57-year-old David Smock was captured Tuesday night in Harrison, Arkansas, not far from the Missouri border. He had been considered a fugitive for several days.

Smock has been the longtime physician for Agape Boarding School, a Christian school that remains under scrutiny after five staffers were charged in September with assaulting students.

Smock was charged Dec. 23 with second-degree statutory sodomy, third-degree child molestation of a child less than 14 years of age and enticement or attempted enticement of a child less than 15 years of age, court records show.

In the report, Smock allegedly groomed a student and is "accused of sodomizing and molesting" him. He allegedly took the student's family on trips, bought him a cellphone, and threw birthday parties.

Five other employees of the school were charged in September with a total of 13 third-degree felony assault counts.

A phone message left Wednesday with Smock’s attorney wasn’t immediately returned.

THV11 contribute to this report.

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