Troy man guilty in torture case

TROY, Mo. (AP) -- An eastern Missouri man faces sentencing in July after being convicted in the rape and attack of a 19-year-old woman who was tortured during the crime.

Robert Gnade (Guh-NAH'-dee) of Troy was found guilty on Thursday of sexual assault and felonious restraint.

Prosecutors says the 42-year-old Gnade knew the victim and offered to give her a ride last July. Instead, he took her to a shed on property owned by his parents, handcuffed her to ceiling rafters then attacked and beat her with a leather belt and raped her.

Gnade drove the woman home. She told relatives what happened and Gnade was arrested a short time later.

Gnade is awaiting trial on sodomy cases involving three other victims. Those crimes allegedly occurred from 1977 to 1989.

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