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GOP Activist Pleads Guilty To Attempted Sex Assault

Man Could Get 8 Years For Crime

POSTED: 10:07 a.m. MDT July 12, 2002

A Republican activist in Colorado Springs has pleaded guilty to attempting to sexually assault a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet.

Randal David Ankeney, 30, faces up to eight years in prison at his sentencing Sept. 9. Prosecutors dropped six other charges against Ankeney as part of a plea agreement.

Ankeney told the victim he was 25 years old and she claimed to be 14, court records said.

Ankeney is accused of picking her up in Fountain, Colo., in July and taking her to his apartment in downtown Colorado Springs, Colo., where he allegedly provided her with marijuana before they had sex.

He dropped her off the next day at a fast-food restaurant where she called a relative who then contacted police, according to his arrest report.

Ankeney is also accused of assaulting a 17-year-old girl in a separate case.

Ankeney has worked as a volunteer on several local politicians' campaigns. Last year, Gov. Bill Owens appointed Ankeney as a business development representative in the Colorado Springs branch of the state Office of Economic Development. Ankeney resigned July 31, a day before he was arrested. He had been making $63,000 a year in that position.


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