PALMDALE MAN WILL STAND TRIAL IN ATTACK ON GIRL.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A Palmdale man accused of kidnapping a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. and raping her in an abandoned house was ordered Thursday to stand trial on charges of rape and kidnapping. Richard Stine, 24, faces a maximum of more than 50 years to life in prison if he is convicted of all charges in the Dec. 19 attack on the teen-age girl, who was walking home from a store when she was accosted ac·cost tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs 1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 2. To solicit for sex. . ``During the crime he told her several times he was going to slice and cut her up,'' said Deputy District Attorney Joseph Payne For the England football player see Joe Payne (footballer). For the American musician see Joe Payne. Joseph Payne (2 March 1808, Bury St Edmunds - 30 April 1876, Bayswater) was an English educationalist and the first Professor of Education at the . ``At one point, when she was not doing what he wanted, he grabbed her arm and cut it with a knife four different times.'' Stine is charged with forcible rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment false imprisonment, complete restraint upon a person's liberty of movement without legal justification. Actual physical contact is not necessary; a show of authority or a threat of force is sufficient. The person falsely imprisoned may sue the offender for damages. and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. . He is being held in lieu of $600,000 bail. The girl was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point as she was walking across a field on her way home from the Ralphs market on Palmdale Boulevard, taken to a vacant house in the 3800 block of 15th Street East and raped. The man assaulted her over a 45-minute period, deputies said. After he left the girl, she made her way home and notified the Sheriff's Department. Stine was arrested Dec. 31 after a sheriff's patrol deputy spotted him walking in the 1800 block of East Palmdale Boulevard - across the street from the market - and noticed that he fit the description of the suspect. The deputy who made the arrest recalled seeing a composite sketch of the suspect, based on the victim's description, and reading newspaper articles about the rape. |
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