In a rare prosecution of a decades-old sexual abuse cold case, an Anchorage grand jury indicted a former Alaska man on charges he abused a young child at a park in 1994.
“Efforts to identify a suspect were unsuccessful,” the Department of Law said.In 1995 -- one year after the assault on the 5-year-old in the park -- Lekanoff was arrested for a similar crime: Attempting to sexually abuse a 6-year-old girl at Cheney Lake, according to a Daily News story from the time. Another charge where he allegedly tried to grab a 4-year-old girl’s genitals was dropped as part of a plea deal that saw him sentenced to eight years in prison, the story said.
At his sentencing, the judge noted that Lekanoff already had a history of abusing children, including a conviction for sexually assaulting a young child when he was a minor himself.In recent years, Alaska has poured millions of dollars into testing a backlog of thousands of rape kits dating back to the 1980s that, for a variety of reasons, were never tested.
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