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Today: Teen to be sentenced in Marion County rape case

MARION COUNTY, Fla. — A Marion County teenager who pleaded guilty to raping an elderly woman is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.

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Sheriff’s investigators said Jesse Stone broke into the 91-year-old’s Reddick home in June of last year.

Detectives said Stone, who was 14-years-old at the time, beat and sexually battered the woman.

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Investigators charged him as an adult and Stone pleaded guilty in November.

Channel 9 will be at Friday’s sentencing hearing, which is set for 1 p.m.

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