Yesterday, Bluestem posted the barebones of the charges in Scary on the prairie: Rasslin' promoter Eugene "Buck" Zumhofe jailed in Kandiyohi County.
Canoe and the Morris Sun have more details on the allegations today. Canoe's Greg Oliver reports in Buck Zumhofe arrest for molesting his daughter:
Buck Zumhofe, an AWA star from the 1980s, and a promoter in the U.S. Midwest for years, was arrested on Monday in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, charged with molesting his daughter years back.
In total, there are 12 criminal sexual conduct charges that have been filed by County Attorney Jennifer Fischer against Eugene Otto Zumhofe, who is 62 years of age.
Zumhofe's daughter, now 29, came forward in March with details of the abuse that occurred while she was a teenager.
The Morris Sun reports in Cyrus man, 62, charged with 12 counts of criminal sexual conduct:
. . . According to the criminal complaint filed against him, Zumhofe started having sex with the victim when she was 15 years old, in June 1999. She had first met him in 1998. The abuse is alleged to have continued until 2011.
The woman, who is now 29, reported the abuse after seeking therapy and medical care in 2012.
The abuse began when she moved into Zumhofe's home in June 1999 in New London. The abuse began with his touching her breasts and then oral sex. Zumhofe also made her dance in front of him in bra and panties and watch pornography with him, the complaint states.
After about two weeks, the abuse progressed to intercourse two to three times a day. In later years, intercourse took place two to three times a week until the woman left in June 2011.
She alleges that approximately 1,800 separate acts of sexual abuse occurred during those years. Some took place in Kandiyohi County and some in Pope County, as Zumhofe moved to Cyrus in 2001.
The woman's mother tried to remove her from Zumhofe's presence when she was a teenager. However, he threatened to kill himself and told the victim that it would be her fault, so she stayed, according to the complaint.
Since the victim left Zumhofe, he has become violent, according to the complaint, and has threatened the woman, her husband and others. He has also threatened suicide. . . .
A source tells Bluestem that Zumhofe and the daughter's mother were not living together at the time of the activity in the allegations.
The Sun notes that Zumhofe served 36-month prison sentence at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater after being convicted of criminal sexual conduct in 1989 in Carver County. He also violated a domestic abuse order for protection in 1999 in Kandiyohi County.
In light of the charges, Zumhofe's comments about his daughter during a August 2012 interview at Interactive Radio on Epicenter Wrestling take on scary connotations. About the 3:53 mark:
Host: And is it still a family thing? Are you still doing it with your daughter?
Zumhofe: Well, no, she decided a year ago that--she's in her--you know that women don't like to tell their age, but she's into her later 20s already and unfortunately I guess women get this idea that boy my girlfriends in college and high school, by the time they're in their late twenties they've got two-three kids . . .Well, my daughter has no family at all and she's in her late twenties and she decided that she's going to get out of the business for a while. . . .
Photo: Zumhofe's mug shot, 2013.
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