September 1, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
A Smithville man has been charged in a Clay County child rape, according to District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway.
32 year old Derrick Tramel was arrested Monday on a charge of felony child rape. He was transported to the Clay County Jail where he was held on a $350,000 bond.
In a statement, General Dunaway said a ten-year-old girl told Child Protective Services earlier in the day that she had been sexually abused by an adult.
Dunaway said his office, along with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Child Protective Services, began an investigation, and determined Tramel had raped the little girl.