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A 29-year-old Kentucky man with a history of being declared
incompetent to stand trial -- following allegations of sexual
assault and other crimes -- is now accused in a brutal attack on
an 8-year-old girl, according to reports.

Authorities in Louisville say Cane Madden, 29, is scheduled for
arraignment Monday after being arrested early Saturday for
allegedly whacking the child in the head with a shovel,
fracturing her skull, then raping her.

“Well, there’s only one kind of prayer you can send. It’s ‘Lord
have mercy, and Lord send the angels to watch over her,’” Ruth
Watkins, a neighbor of the child, told Louisville FOX affiliate
WDRB-TV. “Oh, it was a hurting, paining feeling going through my
heart to know that something like that would happen on this
street.”

“Oh, it was a hurting, paining feeling going through my heart to
know that something like that would happen on this street.”

— Ruth Watkins, neighbor of 8-year-old rape victim
Louisville Metro Police say Madden also stole the child’s Apple
iPad, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

After police were called to the city’s California neighborhood
around 4:30 p.m. Friday, the girl was taken to a hospital, where
she was treated for a fracture on the right side of her skull,
multiple cuts and injuries that suggest sexual assault,
according to the report.

Details about how the man came in contact with the child were
not immediately available.

The suspect was arrested shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday and was
being held on $1 million bond, the Courier-Journal reported.

He was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree assault and
first-degree robbery, according to WDRB.

Madden was accused of at least one previous sex crime, WDRB
reported. In that 2017 case, according to police, Madden “bit
the victim on her face above her left eye, removing a large
chunk of the victim’s face.”

The charges in that case were dismissed after a judge found
Madden incompetent to stand trial, the station reported. Madden
has also seen other assault cases against him dismissed,
according to the Courier-Journal.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-hit-8-year-old-girl-in-head-with- shovel-fracturing-her-skull-then-raped-her-police

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