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Prosecutors on Friday charged a registered sex offender in Wichita with 10 counts of rape and 10 counts of aggravated human trafficking.
The alleged victims are two children.
The charges cover five time periods, beginning in April 2, 2010, and ending June 15, 2011, the District Attorney's Office said.
Earlier this week, Wichita police alleged that the defendant, James L. Brown, 47, had sex with two preteen girls whose mother drove them from Kansas City, Kan., to Wichita to meet him in a motel.
Police said that the crimes occurred over two years and that late last month, the girls — now 12 and 13 — told someone they trusted about the abuse.
Brown made his first court appearance on the charges Friday in Sedgwick County District Court, where Judge David Kaufman set his bond at $750,000.
Brown — wearing an orange jail jumpsuit while appearing on a video monitor — asked Kaufman to repeat the bond amount.
Kaufman said he based the bond on the number of crimes charged, the time frame of the alleged crimes and the ages of the alleged victims.
The charges against Brown allege that the crimes occurred during these time periods: April 2 to April 4, 2010; June 4 to June 6, 2010; March 18 to March 20, 2011; June 1 to June 3, 2011; and June 14 to June 15, 2011.
Police arrested Brown on Tuesday at a home in the 1700 block of North Floberta, near 17th and Oliver.
According to the state's offender registry, his latest address is in the 1500 block of North Madison, near 15th and Grove. Brown is on the registry after being convicted in 2002 of lewd and lascivious behavior against a 12-year-old.
He was discharged from the Kansas Department of Corrections in December 2007.
Police said Thursday that authorities were searching for the girls' mother.
The girls have been placed into protective custody somewhere other than Wichita, police said.
