DAYTON — UPDATE @ 1:36p.m.:
Guilty on all counts. That’s the verdict the jury reached in the kidnapping and rape trial of registered sex offender Randy Stanaford. The victim was an 11-year-old girl.
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Randy Stanaford, 39, is charged with rape of a child less than 13 years old and kidnapping.
A Dayton man accused of kidnapping a girl at knife-point and sexually assaulting her while she was waiting for the school bus was in court this afternoon for the start of his trial.
Stanaford, a registered sex-offender, was accused of kidnapping the 11-year-old girl while she was waiting for the school bus near the intersection of Edgar and Heaton avenues in Dayton last September, according to prosecutors.
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"This defendant, a homeless registered sex offender, kidnapped and raped an 11 year old girl, who was a complete stranger,” said Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr.
The 39-year-old was convicted in Butler County in 2008 for attempted kidnapping and public indecency and was released from prison in August 2015.
A jury was selected for Stanaford’s trial Monday morning and opening statements began shortly after 3 p.m.
If convicted as charged, Stanaford would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.