From Staff Reports
An 18-year-old was arrested in connection with the rape of a boy.
Kendrick Edward Mulanax of Pea Ridge was arrested Sept. 15 in connection with rape, according to jail records. He was being held Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the Benton County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
A 6-year-old boy ran inside to go to the bathroom during a Sept. 8 visit to a home in Gateway where Mulanax had been staying, according to a probable cause affidavit. The boy told investigators Mulanax entered the bathroom and touched him inappropriately. The boy's father kicked in the bathroom door and took him outside.
The boy's father told police his child was clothed when he got the door open.
Mulanax ran from the home saying he was going to kill himself. Family members wrestled him to the ground. He was hospitalized, then sent to a behavioral center.
Another boy who had been at the house said Mulanax tried repeatedly to disrobe him and to touch him, but he ran away.
General News on 09/23/2015