James Cargle pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and single counts of rape and felonious assault, according to court records.
Cargle is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 18 at 1 p.m.
UPDATE @2:25 a.m. 9/25/17
The trial starts today for one of the suspects charged in connection to an attack on a woman in late November.
James Cargle faces charges of kidnapping, rape and felonious assault.
Dayton police said on Nov. 27, 2016, Amy McMahan was kidnapped, raped and assaulted by one man and two women who punched her and hit her with a blunt object. She was found on a Dayton city street after she fell from a moving car.
This news outlet does not name rape victims, but in this case McMahan gave permission to use her name and spoke out in an exclusive interview with our reporters following the attack.
FIRST REPORT 12/21/16
A Dayton woman found brutally beaten, naked and tied up with a rope on Wheatley Avenue last month said she only thought about her kids as she feared she would die.
“All I could think about was my kids,” said Amy McMahan, who was assaulted by the three suspects in a detached garage on Fountain Avenue.
James Cargle, Cassidy Lake and Jennifer Rice and have been charged in connection to the attack.
This news outlet does not name rape victims, but in this case McMahan gave permission to use her name and spoke out in an exclusive interview with our reporters.
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Dayton police said on Nov. 27 McMahan was kidnapped, raped and assaulted by one man and two women who punched her and hit her with a blunt object. She was found on a Dayton city street after she fell from a moving car.
“I opened the trunk and I just jumped,” she said. “I hesitated at first because he was going pretty fast and then when I opened the trunk, they sped up. And I just went for it. ... I remember waking up in the ambulance and them telling me not to move, that I was bleeding pretty bad.”
McMahan said she had been best friends with Rice, 40, but that she had only met Lake, 22, and Cargle, 29, the night before the incident. All three were indicted on kidnapping, assault and rape charges.
“I just want everybody to hear the real story,” McMahan said of coming forward at the end of a touch year of fighting through a divorce. “I’ve not stopped yet and I’m not going to.”
McMahan said she and Rice — called Aunt Jenny by her four kids — drove to a garage to meet Cargle and Lake.
“He walks over to me and he puts his hands on my collarbone and he wraps them around my neck and tackles me to the ground. I’m freaking out, like what are you doing? And he just starts punching on me,” she said. “He says (to Lake and Rice) ‘Make her bleed or I’ll make you guys bleed.’ ”
McMahan said the women stripped her. She said Cargle and Lake used an object to rape her. McMahan said she was then tied up with rope and tossed into a car trunk, where McMahan said she was able to wriggle her hands loose. She said she ripped out the speaker wires so she could hear what they were saying. “I heard J.P (Cargle) said that he needed to kill me ... that I know too much stuff.” McMahan said she thinks Cargle thought she had something to do with a girl who disappeared from the basement of the house all four were in the night before the attack. McMahan said she found the lever to open the trunk and then she leaped.
Now, McMahan said she’s worried about testifying in court.
“I’m scared to death. Even that I know that they’re locked up, I’m scared,” she said. “I’m just scared for me and my kids. ... I can’t leave the house. I look our the curtains constantly. It’s horrible.”
McMahan said she’s grateful for the people who called 911 and tended to her before medics arrived. She also thinks the outcome would have been far different had she not gotten out of that car.
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