Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Man sentenced in multiple rape cases

Courtesy of the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office

KANSAS CITY, KAN. ----- Henry Dion Sullivan, 25, was sentenced in Wyandotte County District Court to a controlling sentence of 570 months in the custody of the Secretary of Corrections.

Sullivan was convicted of aggravated criminal sodomy, rape, and aggravated robbery in connection with an attack on a 33-year-old female which occurred on June 13, 2008, in the area of 11th and Minnesota, in Kansas City, Kan.

He was convicted of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, rape, and aggravated assault, in connection with an attack on a 54-year-old female, which occurred in the vicinity of 2nd Street and Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., on Dec. 22, 2009.

Finally, Sullivan was convicted of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy in connection with a Dec. 11, 2010, attack on a 31-year-old woman which occurred in the area of 13th Street and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.

These offenses were solved when samples of Sullivan’s DNA, submitted to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in an unrelated matter by Kansas City Kansas Police, were matched to samples recovered in these cases.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Sheryl Lidtke prosecuted the case for the State of Kansas.