Man arrested in 15-year-old girl’s abduction and sex assault charged with five crimes
Prosecutors charged a 58-year-old registered sex offender with five crimes, including aggravated kidnapping and rape, in the knife-point abduction of a 15-year-old girl walking home from a Wichita grocery store Monday evening.
Wichita police arrested Anthony Craig Seymour of Wichita on Tuesday after a search led them to his home in the 1900 block of North Lorraine. Police said Tuesday that Seymour threatened the girl with a knife and forced her into his car after approaching her twice while she was on an early evening errand to a Dillons store near her home. She was abducted in the 300 block of North Volutsia and sexually assaulted, police said.
Someone who saw the abduction called 911 at about 6:20 p.m. The girl jumped out of Seymour’s car when she saw police driving in the neighborhood in response to the emergency call and ran toward officers.
Seymour made a first appearance in court Thursday afternoon in Sedgwick County District Court. He’s been charged with aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated robbery and criminal possession of a weapon — the knife — by a convicted felon.
Seymour is being held in the Sedgwick County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond. His next court date is Dec. 5.
Seymour previously served just over 15 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl in 2003, court records show. He also has convictions for a several misdemeanor crimes including theft, criminal trespass, possession of marijuana and cocaine, and battery.
This story was originally published November 21, 2019 at 2:44 PM.
