A 35-year-old woman testified this morning that a man posed as a police officer as a ruse to attack her inside her Wichita home.
Sedgwick County District Judge Joseph Bribiesca ordered Michael W. Young to stand trial on two counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated robbery and one count of attempted rape following a preliminary hearing.
Young, 51, pleaded not guilty.
The woman identified Young in court as the man who blocked her car with his vehicle in her driveway Sept. 5, as she tried to leave with her 3-year-old daughter. She is not being identified because of an Eagle policy not to name potential victims of sex crimes.
She said Young displayed a badge and a gun and told her he had a search warrant to look for a man, who he named, but whom she didn’t know. She testified Young ordered her and her daughter into the house in the 1300 block of North Pershing, and took her to the basement. There, he pulled a gun on her, took her cell phone, threatened her and tried to sexually assault her.
At one point, the woman testified, she thought she was going to die and asked to say good-bye to her daughter.
The woman then said she fought with the man in the basement and the kitchen, where they both reached for knives. She ended up grabbing a pizza cutter and he a butter knife.
The woman said she and her daughter eventually scrambled out of the house. Young, she said, jumped in his car and drove away.
Young’s trial is tentatively set for April 20.
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So if this guy HAD been an officer, would she be in trouble for resisting him? Had she refused to go back into her home with him, what would an officer have charged her with, or done to correct her?
redbud– if he’d been a real cop he’d have shot her, maybe the kid too. And then there would have been a major a88kissing cover-up investigation absolving everyone and everything except the dead. Sorry, but after watching those kinds of things for 50 years I’ve gotten pretty cynical.
I think what she did was very brave despite how it could’ve turned out! The fact that she had the courage to fight him off to save her life & protect her child speaks volumes! Also, to take a stand in court & face him again says a lot. What he did was inexcusable & I’m glad the judge showed no leniency for this piece of trash! I hope she can close this chapter of her life & move on to greater things & hopefully her child won’t be scarred by this anymore than she already has been. No child should have to witness such a thing…
Maybe we should always ask to see the search warrant before we open the window or allow anyone to force us into a situation.