Saturday, June 27, 2009

Appellate court upholds forcible sodomy conviction of Seneca man

The Southern District Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Gerald Rayborn, 45, Seneca, this week.

Rayborn was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of forcible sodomy, felonious restraint, and two counts of armed criminal action following a four-day trial in August 2004. According to court records, Rayborn, while taking the 16-year-old daughter of a friend home following a New Year's Eve 2003 party, pulled a gun on her, forced to take off her clothes, and perform oral sex on him.

The trial was held in McDonald County Circuit Court on a change of venue from Newton County.

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