KY Man Released In 2017 Horror Louisville Sex Assault, Arrested Beat, Raped, Robbed 8-Year-Old Girl ‘Hit On Head With Shovel’

LOUISVILLE, KY. (THECOUNT) — Cane L. Madden, the Kentucky man charged and then released from custody in a brutal 2017 sexual assault that left a female victim with part of her face “bitten off,” has again been arrested for the battery, sexual assault and theft of an iPad from an 8-year-old Louisville girl.

Madden, now 29, was ruled “incompetent to stand trial,” in a horror rape case that left an adult woman severely injured in 2017.

Police say a Madden struck the child in the head with a shovel, fracturing her skull, and then raped and robbed her of her iPad.

He was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree rape, assault and robbery.

A Louisville police arrest citation says officers responded Friday afternoon to a report of a beaten girl robbed of her iPad. It says the girl was found to a have a fractured skull among other injuries indicating sexual assault, reports WOWKTV.

It says Madden was seen nearby around the time of the attack, questioned and told detectives “intimate details” of the assault.

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Geo quick facts: Louisville, Kentucky’s largest city, sits on the Ohio River along the Indiana border. Every May, its race course Churchill Downs hosts the Kentucky Derby, a renowned horse race whose long history is explored at the Kentucky Derby Museum. Baseball is celebrated at the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, where Major League bats are produced and a giant baseball “slugger” marks the entrance – wikipedia.