Sex Offender Accused Of Raping 4-Year-Old In Thrift Store Restroom
September 9, 2010 at 5:48 am by Jaded
Sandy, UT – Shortly after a woman and her 4-year-old daughter were separated inside a Deseret Industries thrift store Tuesday afternoon, a registered sex offender was raping the child in the men’s room. Police say the child asked for permission to head over to the toy section, and when mom turned her back for a few seconds, the child was gone. Unable to locate her child, the woman told store employees her child was missing and an announcement was made over the intercom. While checking the restrooms, mom realized the door to the men’s room was blocked. She pounded on the door, yelling her child’s name. From behind the bathroom door, the child called out, “Mom! Mom!” When the woman asked the little girl to open the door, the child replied that she couldn’t. Mom continued to pound on the door until the door opened and a strange man stepped out. The woman grabbed the man and asked him what he was doing with her child. The man, 41-year-old Richard Randall, shimmied out of her grasp and beat feet out of the store. When customers heard the woman screaming for help, they gave chase, tackling Randall in a parking lot just down the street. He was booked into jail for investigation of rape of a child, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Back in ’99, Randall was convicted of attempted sex abuse of a child – a crime that was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor – and was sentenced to 90 days in jail. The child, who was able to describe the attack to investigators, was treated at the hospital and released.
Tags: child rape, Kidnapping, restroom, Sex Offender, sexual abuse of a child, Utah
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