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Last updated on Friday, February 27, 2015
(PERU) - A Peru man was arrested on Wednesday after a criminal investigation into the rape of an autistic woman.
Indiana State Police served an arrest warrant that alleges felony charges of rape, criminal confinement, and sexual battery to 40-year-old Candler Henderson of Peru.
On February 18, a 21-year-old autistic Miami County woman reported to police that she had been attacked and raped at the farm where she worked.
A police investigation revealed that the attack happened a week before, on February 11, when police say Henderson dragged the woman into a house on the farm and violated her.
At the time the warrant was served, Henderson was incarcerated at the Miami County Jail for a previous arrest.
Henderson is being held at the Miami County Jail with a $40,000 surety bond after the recent charges.
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