Sandusky man charged with rape in Jan. 28 incident
Feb 08
2012
Police arrested a Sandusky man Monday for allegedly performing oral sex on a sleeping woman. Amos Richardson, 26, was charged with rape.
The victim, a 41-year-old Sandusky woman, told police Feb. 1 that she’d been “sexually assaulted” on Jan. 28, a police report said.
She said the attack happened after she fell asleep in a bedroom at her friend’s home in the 1900 block of Clinton St., Sandusky police Lt. John Orzech said.
Richardson also lives in that home.
The woman told police she awoke at about 1 a.m. to find Richardson performing oral sex on her, police said.
“She kicked him off and fled the house,” Orzech said.
Witnesses told police that people in the home had been drinking prior to the incident.
Officers later talked to two people who live in the home with Richardson. Both witnesses were in the home during the alleged crime. They told officers they saw the victim run out of the house, but they did not know what happened inside the bedroom, Orzech said.
Police later interviewed Richardson.
“He said it was a consensual thing,” Orzech said.
Officers obtained DNA samples from Richardson and the victim. The samples, along with a bed sheet, were sent to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation for testing, Orzech said.
It will be about 90 days before the test results are returned.
At about 9 p.m. Tuesday Richardson was in the Erie County jail on $25,000 bond. His preliminary hearing is 10 a.m. Tuesday in Sandusky Municipal Court.

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09:16 PM
kelsikissez says
@419og keep nick melvilles name out of this he has nothing to do with it and its funny because hes not even charged with rape, and i find it funny the register didnt say one thing about what supposebly happend, all i read was bs that wasnt true about his life. In not one paragraph did it say they took dna of the 12yr old girl who happens to be his niece hmmm looks like the register is bs to me.......and this story sounds pretty funny oh i was gettin head while i was sleeping and i didnt feel a thing bs
02:53 PM
NineMM says
@Truth or Dare........................It does go on for a time. A young gal with the same first name as my youngest daughter was arrested a while back, the first and last last names were spelled differently than my daughters, and I heard about that over and over. Not the papers fault, but my own sister called to tell me all about my daughter being in trouble........DUH.
Hopefully this will all clear up for you and your family.
12:26 AM
Truth or Dare says
Hey Sash: We could write a letter to the Forum. Do ya suppose they'll print it? It can be done w/o cursing. Maybe picketing outfront on the City sidewalk could/would help? I suppose you would need some kind of permit? Wonder if the City would issue one? Don't think it isn't a serious thought, as this is a serious matter! Do ya suppose a Reporter from the SR would cover it, fairly, in an unbiased manner?
Hey NineMM: Thank you for understanding! Nothing has been fixed, and we are seeing /feeling the repercussions! Have been since the article was printed! Threatening phone calls from family memebers of the actual owner of the vehicle (never mind the fact he loaned the vehicle to someone w/no operator's liscense and was highly intoxicated), calls from W.T. Realty , the owner of the Apt. Complex damaged and seeking insurance information to cover the cost, looks from people that we've known for years as if they'........well, believe everything they read! "The Power of the Pen", or ink in this situation! Only in a very negative, defamatory way.
07:28 PM
419og says
what about the guy that raped a 12 year old girl nick mellville
07:13 PM
419og says
@katelih thank you you could not have said it better
03:39 PM
sash says
@Truth or Dare- Thanks for the clarification. Busy week and I only skimmed the print edition. I thought I'd missed something or mixed up stories. You're right about taking each story with a grain of salt. It seems with the 24 hour news cycle in the world today, the rule is to get it out quick rather than get it out right. Corrections are made, but they're usually days later and found on page 6 rather than page 1.
01:21 PM
RalphieMae9 says
Thanks for your comment Sash. They may have a spot at the SR for you.
12:27 PM
NineMM says
@ Truth or Dare............................Know what you're talking about and feel your pain. The Register hires a lot of interns that are working towards a degree in journalism. For most of them it is just a stepping stone.................Some have the misfortune of actually being hired by SR. Not something I'd want on my resume.
Glad they straightened it out.
10:33 AM
Truth or Dare says
Hey Sash; Please read my first post. I chose to respond as I did due to Ralphies's comment. My post has absolutley nothing to do wtith this incident, but another that was written and in Sunday's printed paper. I felt it important to use the opportunity to post regarding our very recent personal experience w/MAJOR ERROS made by not one, but 2 SR Reporters that wrote the article!!!!!!! I suppose that using the wording "allegedly" should excuse them from such defamatory writings?!
My point, be very careful in believeing everything that is printed within the SR, don't be so quick to assume it's FACT, especially when they owe it to the Joe Pulic to have enough PROFFESSIONALISM to not only carefully read a Police Report, but it is also their duty to comprehend/understand what it is they're reading let alone writing before going to print!!!! After all you know what they say, "good luck suing someone that buys ink by the barrels"!!!!
Here is a FACT; As a citizen, you are entitled to a copy of a Police Report when you ask for it. However, if that particular incident is still under investigation, or there are corrections too be made, it will not be provided at the time. Now, if that report is provided to the SR prior to those corrections, additions, whatever, we all as citizens have a BIG PROBLEM here!
08:53 AM
sash says
@Ralphiemae- You have NO first amendment rights on this site to trample. SR owns the site and can block anything they want. If you want to express yourself freely, start a blog.
Truth or Dare- Sorry, but I'm very confused. The paper version of the paper said that they were all together at the house and had been drinking. I would assume a small group of people who had been together in a house drinking would know each others names or at least recognize the person they'd been drinking with. The paper also said that the victim fled the house, and witnesses had confirmed that she'd ran out of the house but they didn't know why. I don't understand where the "individual fleeing the scene" came from? Was the accused supposed to have fled the scene after the victim or before?Maybe I missed a following story and the police report? I assume you're also saying that the picture in the paper isn't the accused- do you know who it is then? Could you clarify please?
07:32 AM
Truth or Dare says
Hey Ralphie: I agree, especially the Reporters that are writing the stories that are printed under what's now "Police and Courts". After all, "perception is reality", which by the way folks is a dangerouse train of thought! See, when you plaster someone's picture within this paper, accompanied by an article written regarding a serious crime, and the individual isn't even the one that committed that crime, nor was there anywhere within a Police Report that stated they did, but there was a statement BY THE VICTIM that the individual witnessed fleeing the scene was no where close to matching the description of the picture in the paper of the one "allegedly" accused.............musta missed that statement from the Victim, eh Reporters........must be true if it's in the Register, right? It's bad enough to be falsley accused, and even worse when it 's put in print of the largest read paper, Sunday's. It's probably fair to say the entire reading area will "perceive" it to be true! PERCEPTION IS REALITY, right?! That was proved to us when running into someone at the grocery store who would normally stop, speak, carry on a conversation. Instead, they turned away as they literally stuck their freakin nose in the air.
FYI: Not good folks for the person who was accused by the SR, let alone their family and their family's business/livilihood, of which also happens to advertise in the paper. Too add insult to injury, is when things like this happen they won't get a written apology in this paper. They get a 1.5 inch blurb, stuck in the corner of the paper somewhere, where no one really sees it, under "Corrections". On that note, DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ WITHIN THIS PAPER, and yes, if the Reporters', especially when 2 are bumping heads and still can't read and comprehend properly, therefore printing a DEFAMAOTRY ARTICLE....... send em back to journalism school!!!! Better yet, don't allow them to be the one's to go down to the SPD to gather reports for information to print in this paper!
Signed - A deeply hurt Mother, who is speaking here on behalf of her child, along w/her Husband/Father, let alone an entire extended family, who will never TRUST that what they read in print, or here is COMPLETELY FACTUAL!
04:54 AM
TuffNutts2011 says
Look at her over there passed out drunk trying to make me jealous. I think shes just playing hard to get. I better make my move. lol.
10:13 PM
RalphieMae9 says
The Sandusky Register is pathetic. You can sling out garbage stories and poor grammar every day yet you are not allowing us to use our first amendment. Thanks for blocking me...but you see I am back. Keep feeding us your pathetic stories. Instead of worrying about our post, you should send all of your "writers" back to high school journalism class. BOOM ROASTED!
07:16 PM
frizzlefrap says
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looking around says
@ czechurself says , I say that because he claims it was consensual , If she fell asleep it couldn't have been very good on his part ya think!
02:53 PM
Julie R. says
I thought the same thing. A filthy pervert molests a 13-year-old yet THIS story generates more comments. Go figure.
01:48 PM
katelih says
This story has more comments than a 13 year old old GIRL being sexually assaulted ?...SMH
FEB 02
2012
Man gets four years in prison for sexually abusing girl, 13
01:27 PM
czechurself says
why would a racist appraisal or sentiment offer an intelligent insight into the discussion? What is your need to discuss what color they are? If that is all you have to offer then truly nobody cares and it may as well be removed.
01:09 PM
nobodycares says
they put these stories about these upstanding citizens or thugs and then dont you dare bring up what color they are or make a funny comment . you need to say things like it must have been the poor life they had that caused them to stray and we should feel bad for them and help them in any way ................. cause the race patrol will delete it ...................he is a typical POS !!!!!!!!!!!
12:54 PM
FantasyFootballGuru says
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Truth or Dare says
Watch out, the grammar and spelling police are out today. I figure if you're gonna correct another, make sure you're doing the same.
12:42 PM
iamrevolutionary says
WTH??!! Anyone that thinks this is funny, must be a perv. themselves! I don't find it one bit funny! :o((
12:41 PM
katelih says
Hey wait a minute...I think I read in the paper a couple weeks ago that someone with the name Amos was busted in his head and received stitches. If I recall, he said he didnt know who did it.. Pretty sure he has an idea...
12:01 PM
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007 says
Definitely not his first rodeo!!!
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11:27 AM
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czechurself says
looking around...the report states that she awoke at 1 am... but why do you ask? It is illegal to perform sex on a person without their expressed consent. The report also states alcohol was involved prior to the incident, making her without sound mind or body.
wiredmama...that sounds like fun for you? to wake up to a man, that is not your own, who has sexually invited himself to you with out your knowledge or consent? gross...
11:06 AM
wiredmama222 says
that's break, not brake....so sorry, but that drive me nuts! I takes 90 days to do a DNA test.. This isn't television where they get it in 5 minutes.
10:39 AM
here in ohio says
90 days before the test results are returned ????? WOW give me a brake could they be any slower ??
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looking around says
Was she awake when he started?