Man pleads guilty to home break-in, child rape in Miami County

He faces a sentence of life in prison without parole or life in prison with parole eligibility after 15 years. Sentencing will be Nov. 17 before Judge Jeannine Pratt.

Hartman was arrested by Piqua police following an investigation into a woman’s report early June 16 that she found a stranger in an upstairs bedroom of her home sexually assaulting a child. The woman said she grabbed and hit the man and chased him from the house and down the street.

A trial in the case against Hartman was scheduled to begin Oct. 24. He remains in the county jail in lieu of $1 million bail.