A San Bernardino man has been sentenced to 140 years to life for raping a 9-year-old girl, a female jogger and the molestation of a former girlfriend’s daughter.
Kevin Michael Konther was convicted in March of last year , and received the maximum sentence for the brutal crimes. The 58-year-old evaded police for decades before being arrested in 2019.
Authorities say Konther committed multiple offenses in the 90s. The first occurred on Oct. 21, 1995. A 9-year-old girl was walking home through Serrano Creek Park in Lake Forest after buying school supplies.
According to officials, Konther grabbed the young girl and pulled her down an embankment where he took the victim to a secluded area.
“He told the girl not to scream and threatened that he had a knife,” officials said. “She begged him not to hurt her but he ignored her pleas” and forcibly raped her.
Konther then made the young girl walk home naked, only giving her the supplies she had just bought to cover herself up. The victim ran home to tell her mother about the rape.