A 34-year-old man was sentenced to life plus two years in prison after being convicted of charges related to sexual assaulting a 13-year-old girl whom he impregnated, the Fulton County District Attorney's office announced Monday.
A jury found Stephen Troy Kendrick guilty Thursday of statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and criminal trespassing.
College Park police found Kendrick sleeping with the 13-year-old, whom he first claimed was his 18-year-old cousin, in a vacant unit of the Cypress Glen Apartments on Godby Road last February, authorities said. The two are not related.
Investigators discovered that Kendrick met the girl while he was a boarder in her family's home. The girl's parents became worried about Kendrick's closeness with their daughter and asked him to leave, but he continued to sneak into the house to visit her, authorities said.
The girl ran away from home and lived on the streets with Kendrick. After police found the pair, the girl was reunited with her parents, who had reported her missing two months earlier, the DA's office said.
The girl was pregnant with Kendrick's child, investigators later discovered.
"The injury and pain of child birth associated with the young girl’s pregnancy" led to the aggravated child molestation charge, the DA's office said.
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Music
9:00 a.m. Monday, February 13, 2012
Report: Whitney Houston's body to be flown to Atlanta
For the AJC
The body of famed songstress Whitney Houston will be flown to Atlanta, according to TMZ.com.Today on accessAtlanta
L.A. County Coroner officials allegedly have told Houston's family that she died from a combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol.
Houston was found unresponsive in a bathtub Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California.
Houston, whose powerful voice fueled multiple No. 1 hits in the '80s and '90s, lived in Atlanta for many years with then-husband Bobby Brown.
Metro Atlanta / State News
9:56 a.m. Thursday, February 9, 2012
Suspect in attempted Wal-Mart kidnapping on probation for manslaughter
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The man charged with trying to kidnap a 7-year-old girl Wednesday
from a west Georgia Wal-Mart was on probation at the time after serving
a sentence for a voluntary manslaughter conviction in DeKalb County, according to police.
"We're pretty confident we've got the right guy," Pesnell said.
But as Woods was being led in handcuffs from the police department to a patrol car, he told reporters that the police had the wrong man.
"I was never there," Woods said.
According to police, Woods started talking to Brittney Baxter in the toy aisle of the Wal-Mart and then grabbed her and put his hand around her mouth.
But Brittney kicked and screamed, and the man let her go, police said. Neither she nor her mother, who was nearby in the store, was injured.
"When she told me someone had tried to get her, I just couldn't believe it," Brittney's mother, Georgeann Baxter, told Channel 2 Action News.
Store surveillance cameras captured the incident, and based on the description of the suspect's vehicle, police located Woods a few miles away in Tallapoosa, Pesnell said.
Woods was charged with attempted kidnapping, and additional charges are likely, Pesnell said. The suspect was being held in the Haralson County Jail. GBI agents are assisting with the investigation.
Woods was released in October from the Wheeler Correctional Facility, where he had been since April 2007 following his manslaughter conviction in DeKalb, according to the state Department of Corrections. He was placed on probation after serving out his sentence.
According to DeKalb County jail records, Woods, previously of Tucker, was arrested in October 2004, three months after the crime for which he was convicted. He was 17 years old at the time.
The Bremen police chief praised Brittney's actions.
"She did exactly what we teach the little ones to do at a time like that," Pesnell told Channel 2.
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