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A homeless man kidnapped and raped a woman inside a rest room at a preferred Georgia park on Mother’s Day, authorities stated Friday.
Austin Stovall, 33, was arrested Wednesday in Sunday’s stunning assault at Swift-Cantrell Park in Kennesaw, police stated.
“First, my thoughts are with the victim and their family following this egregious incident,” Police Chief William Wiesenberger stated in a press release Friday. “This is something that no juvenile should ever have to experience.”
The assault marked the “first incident like this” to happen within the 130-acre park outdoors Atlanta that options playgrounds, trails and picnic pavilions, Wiesenberger stated.
“We take our oath to protect and serve very seriously,” the chief stated. “The suspect was identified, apprehended and will now be held accountable for his actions.”
Stovall, who’s listed as homeless in Cobb County jail data, was charged with a number of felony counts together with rape, aggravated sexual battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Police stated he known as a woman underneath the age of 16 over to his automobile and threatened to “hurt her” if she didn’t comply with him to a males’s restroom within the park, in response to a Cobb County arrest warrant cited by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Stovall then allegedly compelled the woman right into a nook inside the ability and raped her, in response to the warrant, which didn’t disclose the sufferer’s age.
Stovall has a protracted felony historical past that features a number of convictions and jail sentences. He was most lately arrested in July in Cherokee County, the place he was charged with DUI, obstruction and different counts, in response to the Journal-Constitution.
He remained held with out bond Friday. He has but to rent a lawyer who might touch upon his behalf, jail data present.
