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20-year-old man pleads guilty in 2009 kidnapping, rape

Stanley Armitage pleads guilty to 2 counts of sexual battery, 1 count of kidnapping

Stanley Armitage.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of sexual battery and one count of kidnapping, authorities said.

In October 2009, Stanley Armitage II attacked the then 47-year-old woman while she was riding her bike in the Riverside area, according to the State Attorney's Office.

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Armitage allegedly hit the woman in the head and then knocked her off her bike when she tried to get away. Attorneys said he then dragged the woman behind a building and raped her.

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The case went unsolved until police were alerted in late 2013 that Armitage's DNA was a match in the case. Attorneys said Armitage's criminal history stretches from Florida to Oregon, where he was recently convicted on a charge of armed robbery.

State attorneys said Armitage now faces life in prison and will be sentenced the week of Aug. 4.

Two others in the case -- Rakeem Saleem Mitchner and Martin Anthony King -- have also been charged with two counts of sexual battery and one count of kidnapping. Their cases are pending, authorities said.


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