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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 13, 1995                   TAG: 9506130066
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short


MAN CHARGED IN RAPE OF 9-YEAR-OLD

A Bedford man was charged last week with abducting, raping and sodomizing a 9-year-old girl.

According to court records, the girl told police she was bicycling with a man Wednesday when he took her to a secluded wooded area near the Bedford Science and Technology Center and ordered her to disrobe. She said the man told her to lie on the ground and then raped and sodomized her.

After she returned home, the girl reported the attack to her mother, who called police. An emergency room physician at Bedford County Memorial Hospital confirmed to police that she had been raped.

Calvin McDaniel Snead, 27, was charged with one count each of abduction, sodomy, rape and exposing himself, all felonies.

Snead is being held in the Bedford jail.



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