Child Rapist Sentenced to Forty Years for Abusing Ten-Year-Old

Prosecutors in DA Charme Allen’s Child Abuse Unit obtained a forty-year sentence against a defendant who sexually abused a child and threatened her in order to keep her from disclosing the abuse.  Roger Dean Guin, 55, was convicted of two counts of Rape of a Child, two counts of Rape, Aggravated Sexual Battery, Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure, Incest, and three counts of Assault.  Judge Scott Green sentenced Guin to the maximum sentence for Rape of a Child, forty years in prison without the possibility of parole.

In a three-day trial in November, Assistant District Attorneys Rachel Lambert and Jordan Murray explained to the jury that Guin started sexually abusing the victim when she was ten years old.  Guin told the victim there would be bad consequences if she disclosed the abuse to police.  The abuse continued for five years until Guin moved out of the house.  At that point, the victim disclosed years of abuse.  Knox County Sheriff’s Office Detective Miranda Spangler began investigating the case and coordinated a recorded phone call between Guin and the victim’s mother.  In the phone call, Guin admitted sexually abusing the child.

“Thanks to the bravery of this child, this offender will never again be able to victimize another minor,” said DA Charme Allen.

At the sentencing hearing, prosecutors argued for the maximum sentence because of the threats Guin made to the victim to keep her from disclosing the abuse.  Guin told the victim that if she told anyone about the sexual assaults, he would put her family in body bags, threatening to kill the victim, her mother, and her siblings.

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