
LEE COUNTY, Fla.- A convicted child rapist facing a new trial will not be free anytime soon.
A judge denied bail for Richard McDade on Monday.
In 2012, a jury found McDade guilty of raping a girl from the time she was 10, until the age of 16. That’s when she recorded McDade talking about the abuse.
Florida’s Supreme Court ordered a new trial because that recording was illegal.
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