A Sharpsburg man has been indicted on multiple charges relating to the rape of a 12-year-old Coweta girl in 2015.
Shalin Ren Payne, 29, was indicted by the Coweta County Grand Jury for kidnapping, rape, aggravated sexual battery, cruelty to children, sexual exploitation of a child, aggravated assault, aggravated sodomy, possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of aggravated child molestation, according to the Coweta County District Attorney’s office.
The incident involved the October 2015 rape of the 12-year-old daughter of his fiancee.
Deputies on Oct. 5, 2015 were contacted at approximately 8:30 p.m. and were told that the little girl had been raped and choked, Lt. Col. James Yarbrough of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said at the time.
Payne had been in the home with the girl and her 4-year-old brother, Yarbrough said, adding that the girl’s mother returned home to find her fiancee raping her 12-year-old daughter in a bedroom.
The mother struck Payne with a soup bowl, at which point he assaulted her, said Yarbrough. Payne soon fled the house wearing only a t-shirt, said Yarbrough.
Yarbrough said deputies soon located Payne and took him into custody.
The girl was transported to Scottish Rite Hospital but was later released and is now at home, Yarbrough said at the time of the incident.
Yarbrough said Payne was recently released from Florida jail having served time for aggravated assault.
