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Cell phone video lead police to child rape arrest

The Columbian
Published: June 26, 2010, 12:00am

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Explicit pictures and video in a donated cell phone led police to arrest a 32-year-old Tacoma man in a child rape case.

The Tacoma News Tribune reports that prosecutors charged Robert Michael Comte this past week with one count of first-degree child rape and one count of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor after a woman who received a cell phone from a Goodwill found explicit video and pictures of a girl who appears to be between 3 and 5 years old.

Comte plead not guilty Friday and is being held in jail on a $500,000 bail.

Prosecutors allege the man sexually assaulting the child in the video is Comte. Police used information in the phone to track down people who know Comte, including a woman who said the phone belonged to him. That woman tearfully told police Comte had recently baby-sat her daughter.

Police say a blanket seen in the video match a blanket from the woman’s house.

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Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com

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