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Rape Kit Traces Decade Old Rape Case

According to ABC 6 in Providence, yesterday a man charged in a decade-old rape case was indicted by a grand jury. The 28-year-old Dylan Ponte was indicted on two counts of rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 14, and one case of witness intimidation. Ponte was arrested in July after a decade-old rape kit was tested. In 2012, the victim had been drinking with Ponte in the area of the Hayden-McFadden School. The victim also told police she blacked out and woke up outside of her friends home with multiple bruises on her body. In May, the rape kit connected to this case was tested and matched the DNA of Dylan Ponte from previous arrests.

 

Ponte is also convicted of misdemeanor domestic battery in Florida.

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