Convicted Rapist Gets Six Life Terms

One of the men accused in two brutal rapes and kidnappings in 2011 has been convicted and sentenced, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office announced.

25-year-old Kendell Lawrence was convicted on Monday of kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Lawrence was given a term of six consecutive life sentences plus fifty years by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Todd Markle.

On Dec. 8, 2011, Lawrence and another man kidnapped a 22-year-old woman who was walking near the intersection of Old National Highway and Old Bill Cook Rood. Lawrence and the other man blindfolded the woman, forced her into an SUV, and drove her to an abandoned home on Pine Tree Trail.

The woman was then forced through a broken glass window and raped multiple times. The men then ordered their victim to clean herself to remove any DNA evidence and drove her back to the location from which she was kidnapped.

Later on that evening, the pair struck again, kidnapping a woman from a strip mall parking lot by forcing their way into her car and ordering her to drive to the same house. Once there, she was blindfolded, forced through the broken glass window, and similarly raped and ordered to clean herself.

Police investigated the brutal attacks and arrested Lawrence and alleged accomplice Deantwan Allen, who is facing a separate trial.