A man was charged nearly 20 years after a teenage girl was raped in Louisville.
Kentucky State Police said in a news release Wednesday that DNA evidence from the victim’s sexual assault kit was entered into the state’s Combined DNA Index System after the January 11, 2005 rape, but no match was identified.
The victim, who was 17 years old at the time, was kidnapped, held at gunpoint and raped, according to police.
Grant funding in July 2021 from the U.S. Department of Justice allowed Kentucky State Police and Louisville Metro Police to do additional testing on DNA from a suspect in the case, 47-year-old Robrico English. The test came back with a positive match, and English has now been arrested and charged with kidnapping and rape.
The Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office said Thursday whether a crime was committed yesterday or 20 years ago, our Office stands committed to getting victims in our community justice.
English is already serving a 12-year prison sentence stemming from a 2019 first-degree robbery conviction. Court records show he has several past convictions dating back to the 1990s. According to the Department of Corrections, in 1996, he was convicted of nine charges, including robbery, burglary, fleeing or evading police and more.
He is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on December 11 on the new charges.
The Department of Justice awarded an additional $2.5 million to the state of Kentucky in October 2023, the second-largest amount the state has every received from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Source: WDRB
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