Blount County Man Convicted of Child Kidnapping, Rape

0:00It's April 9th. I'm Cory with the story, and this is Birmingham News Today. Local news powered by AI. A Brown County man named Johnny Chandler just got hit with a conviction for kidnapping and raping a child from Blountsville. This goes back to an incident in March 2024, where the district attorney announced the jury found him guilty on Thursday. Prosecutors laid out heavy charges against him, including second-degree rape, enticing a child, traveling to meet her for a sex act, kidnapping in the second-degree. A obstruction, conspiracy, and messing with child custody. The whole thing kicked off on the girl when missing early one Sunday morning. She left a note saying she planned to run away, but cops found her safe just a day later. Chandler's case drew from an investigation that started years earlier, but this conviction wraps up the main charges tied to that 2024 event. Officials are still pinning down every exact count he was nailed on. With the guilty verdict locked in, eyes now turn to sentencing, bringing some closure

1:00to a tough chapter for that young victim and her family.