Rape charge added in alleged assault of disabled woman
Prosecutors added a first-degree rape charge Wednesday to a case involving a man accused of sexually abusing a mentally challenged woman.
Hurricane resident Cherokee Miles Williams, 57, was arrested last month over allegations he talked the 38-year-old woman police described as having diminished capacities into coming with him in his vehicle and sexually assaulting her in a parking lot in an incident Sept. 16.
The woman returned home and told a relative what had taken place, according to charging documents.
New test results were added as evidence supporting the rape charge in addition to first-degree felony counts of aggravated kidnapping and forcible sodomy, as well as a second-degree felony charge of forcible sexual abuse.
Williams is being held without bail at Purgatory Correctional Facility.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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