16th Judicial Deputy Prosecutor Dwayne Plumlee wasted no time last week in charging a Fulton County man with 14 counts of rape and four other sexually related felonies on Aug. 4.
This was only a day after interviewing the victim, obtaining the confession of the accused by investigators and police executing a search warrant.
According to court documents, Cody Rivers Redding, 26, was arrested on Aug. 4 after a six-year-old female child relayed information to her grandmother the day before about “a game” she played with Redding. The game included sexual details consistent with rape.
The child was interviewed in Craighead County by an Arkansas State Police Crimes Against Children Advocate who provided the child with anatomical correct diagrams of a male and female body. She was able to identify both male and female parts of the anatomy, including nicknames Redding had given each. The child further provided the interviewer with detailed accounts of the things that occurred during the “games” with Redding. She also provided details of pornography she had been shown by Redding related to the anatomy she identified in the diagrams.
In a Post Miranda Interview with Arkansas State Police Crimes Against Children Investigator and Fulton County investigator, Lt. William Fawcett at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department, Redding made a voluntary statement admitting to raping the child since she was five -years-old in various ways “about fourteen times”. Redding also provided officers with details of where various items used in the crimes that were described by the child were located. A search warrant later yielded the items.
Redding was charged with 14 charges of the Class Y Felony of Rape, which carries a 40 year to life sentence on each charge; and two counts of each Sexually Grooming a Child; and Sexual Indecency with a Child, both Class D Felonies.
Redding’s bond was set at $350,000 by 16th Judicial District Circuit Judge Tim Weaver on Aug. 4. Redding remains incarcerated in the Fulton County Detention Center on the charges.
The case was promptly prosecuted by 16th Judicial Prosecuting Attorney Eric Hance and Deputy Prosecutor Dwayne Plumlee, just a day after the crime was reported and victim confessed.