Stanley Short
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(Versailles, Ind.) - A Ripley County jury has convicted a Sunman man of raping a woman.
Investigators said Stanley Short held a woman in a Sunman apartment. He attacked the victim with a hammer before forcing her to have sex with him on May 25. The woman was able to escape and seek help.
Short was arrested a few days later.
Last week following a three day trial in Ripley Circuit Court, a jury returned a guilty verdict on all five charges Short faced: rape, criminal deviate conduct, criminal confinement, battery with a weapon and domestic battery.
Jurors took about three hours to return the guilty verdict, the Batesville Herald-Tribune reported.
The 42-year-old faces up to 129 years in prison when he is sentenced on June 4.
The rapists’ legal troubles are not over yet. Short was the subject of a manhunt in Ripley County last September after he and a fellow inmate escaped from the Ripley County Jail in Versailles.
Short was recaptured after two days on the run. He was found sleeping in a hopper near a relative’s home on State Road 48.
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