Rendleman in court; victim's support group at Justice Center

Friday, April 6, 2012

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- They numbered over 40 - most of them doning pink T-shirts in support of the victim of a rape that took place in rural Stoddard County in the early morning hours of March 18. The group included the woman who police reportedly found being raped in an isolated cemetery south of Advance. Family and friends encircled her outside the Stoddard County Justice Center Thursday morning prior to a court appearance by her allged attacker. Inside, her mother and sister were by her side to witness the second court appearance of her accused rapist, Steven Clark Rendleman, 51, the Advance man who has been convicted of rape twice in the past and who, in 2009, pled guilty to sexual misconduct in Cape County.

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