MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee man made his first appearance in court on Sunday on charges of repeated sexual assault of a child.
Antonio Randolph, 37, is charged with one count of Repeated Sexual Assault of Same Child (at least 3 violations of 1st Degree Sexual Assault), and another count of Repeated Sexual Assault of Same Child.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Commissioner Barry Phillips said the child in the first count is 13 years old.
“After 32 years you think you would’ve seen everything, talking about myself, and then something happens to let you know you will never see everything,” Phillips said.
According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a Milwaukee gas station for reports of a person with a gun. Officers arrived to find several people arguing, and Randolph "bloodied and battered." He told police he was with his "female friend," a 13-year-old girl who told police she had run away from home.
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She told police she met Randolph and a friend of his at the gas station and asked them for a ride. She says the pair took her to a home near 46th and Lisbon, where they assaulted her. The victim says after this, Randolph took her to his grandmother's house and kept her confined to the basement.
The victim says she asked Randolph to borrow a phone to call her parents, but he refused. She says Randolph forced her to perform several sexual acts on him, despite her saying "no" and "stop" several times.
Court documents go on to say that Randolph left the girl with a friend who also also forced her into sexual acts. She told police this man dropped her back off with Randolph, who walked with her to the gas station. There, she was recognized by family friends.
Phillips says that person notified the victim's family, and the family came and beat Randolph up.
“And it gets streamed on Facebook. And the person you allegedly had sex with when you were a child sees the video and says ‘That’s the man that raped me when I was a child”,” Phillips said in court.
According to the criminal complaint, a former victim of Randolph's watched the video and "recognized the individual being beaten up as the same man who sexually assaulted [her] as a child." This second victim claims Randolph, who was about 12 at the time, used threats to keep her quiet. She says the abuse continued for years.
Randolph told police he believed the 13-year-old to be 19-years-old, but admitted to trying to initiate intercourse with her.
Randolph is being held on $50,000 cash bail. His next court appearance is a preliminary hearing on December 3 at 1:30 p.m.
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