A longtime inmate at a Jasper County prison will stay in the system for years longer after pleading guilty to attacking, kidnapping and raping a 68-year-old commissary worker inside the Ridgeland-area facility in 2019.
Ahmad Rashad Bonds, 41, of St. Helena Island, was sentenced to 29 years in prison for his felony convictions of kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
At the time of the brutal, drawn-out assault, Bonds was nearing the end of his 25-year sentence at the Ridgeland Correctional Institution for robbing and sexually assaulting a 60-year-old St. Helena woman in her home in 2002. He was sent to prison in 2004 after pleading guilty to felony burglary, armed robbery and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Circuit Court Judge Robert Bonds handed down the inmate’s newest sentence Tuesday at the Jasper County Courthouse. The judge and the defendant are not related despite sharing a last name, the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office noted in a press release…