By JUDD WEIL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A defense hearing has been set in a rape case for Anthony O. Krause, 30, Hutchinson.
Krause is alleged to have had sex with a child under 14 on May 11, and to have committed aggravated indecent liberties with the same child on May 17.
Krause is also accused of soliciting the same person for the unlawful act on May 8 and to attempt to persuade the person to commit such an act on that same date.
Charges were formally filed against Krouse in October.
The rape and indecent liberties counts as charged are off-grid felonies, potentially punishable by a hard 50-year sentence, a mandatory 50 years in prison.
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