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   Rodney Calhoun HCSO   
      
   Editor’s note: The following story contains sensitive content.   
      
   A 39-year-old former Marshall man was sentenced to 60 years in prison,   
   Tuesday, for the 2017 rape of a then 11-year-old child and a then 16-year-old   
   child, both of whom he impregnated.   
      
   The defendant, Rodney Wayne Calhoun Jr., was sentenced by 71st Judicial   
   District Judge Brad Morin after pleading guilty to the crimes. Judge Morin   
   sentenced the defendant to 60 years — a maximum 20 for aggravated sexual   
   assault of a child and 40 years    
   for sexual assault of a child. The sentencing will run consecutively, for a   
   total of 60 years.   
      
   The defendant asked for probation in the case, claiming he was under the   
   influence of a date rape drug he took several weeks prior and that he also has   
   blackouts that impede his memory. His court-appointed defense attorney, Kim   
   Ryan, argued that Calhoun    
   needed a chance for rehabilitation and mental health treatment as well as an   
   opportunity to continue to financially help all 14 mothers of his total of 14   
   children, who range from ages 3 to 21.   
      
   Prosecutor, Madison Hood, asked the judge to assess the maximum sentence in   
   both cases, arguing that the defendant is a sexual predator whose story about   
   not remembering, due to a date rape drug, is unbelievable.   
      
   The judge agreed.   
      
   “You forcibly raped her,” Judge Morin told Calhoun as the judge handed   
   down the sentences, one by one.   
      
   “You held her down and had sex with a 16-year-old; and you tell me you   
   don’t remember that,” the judge said, visibly rattled.   
      
   “Well, I can’t get that out of my mind,” the judge said, sharing how   
   disturbed he is by the defendant’s actions.   
      
   Judge Morin said the crimes are something neither one of the child victims,   
   who are now 16 and 20, will forget. The judge said both victims deserve   
   justice for the trauma.   
      
   “I hope that they’re able to get through this,” he said, getting choked   
   up. “I’m just speechless.”   
      
   The offense dates in the case are Sept. 13, 2017, and Oct. 1, 2017. The   
   youngest victim, who was sexually abused from the age of 11 to 12, made her   
   outcry in March 2018.   
      
   Defendant testimony   
      
   Taking the stand Tuesday, Calhoun said he’s told several individuals that he   
   needs mental help. He claimed he has incidents of “ins-and-outs” that   
   causes him to black out. When asked by First Assistant District Attorney,   
   Madison Hood, why he could    
   recall so vividly about the 11-year-old starting her menstrual cycle, even   
   stating that he thought she started them early, Calhoun said he remembered   
   those details because it was traumatizing for him.   
      
   “Everything traumatizing, I remember,” he said. “It was traumatizing to   
   me. It was something that I wasn’t used to.”   
      
   When asked about details he remembered about the weekend of the incident with   
   the 16-year-old, Calhoun said he remembered talking to her about sleeping in   
   vans with fleas, about dancing, and about the status of her virginity.   
      
   When asked by Hood what he remembered about forcing her to have sex with him,   
   Calhoun argued that he never forced anyone to do anything. He said he didn’t   
   remember having sex with the 11-year-old either.   
      
   When asked why he could remember the details of the conversations with both   
   girls, but couldn’t remember sexually assaulting them, Calhoun claimed it   
   happened some weeks after being under the influence of a date rape drug, while   
   out of town.   
      
      
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