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SALT LAKE CITY -- Richard Chad Randall, the suspect in the kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old girl at a Deseret Industries store in Sandy, pleaded guilty to amended charges connected to the case.
Randall, 41, a convicted sex offender, was charged with child rape, sodomy on a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child and child kidnapping in connection with the Sept. 7 incident.
Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to one count of child kidnapping and one count of aggravated sex abuse of a child.
At a hearing in November, the girl's mother testified she let the girl look through the toy aisle of the Deseret Industries store while she was shopping for shoes Sept. 7. When she went to check on the girl, she was gone. The woman finally found her daughter, who had been locked in the men's bathroom. She said she could hear the girl calling for her.
She testified that Randall exited the bathroom and didn't reply to her repeated questions as to what he did to her daughter. He then tried to run from the store but was eventually tackled by other customers outside the store.
He will be sentenced Feb. 16.
