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Shawnee man, 32, arrested on two child rape charges

Posted at 12:44 PM, Feb 07, 2018
and last updated 2018-02-07 13:44:27-05

A 32-year-old Shawnee man faces two counts of raping a child under 14 and another charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child in connection to crimes alleged to have occurred between September 1 and October 31, 2017, in Overland Park.

Benjamin Edward Ambrose Rutherford was taken into custody early Wednesday morning and booked into the Johnson County jail, where he was held on a $250,000 bond.

The victim appears to be the same in all three crimes, identified in court documents only by initials and birth year.

Rutherford was scheduled to appear before a judge at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Olathe.

Our investigations found no prior criminal charges for Rutherford in the area.

It was not immediately clear how the suspect and victim knew one another, if at all. 

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