SNOW HILL, Md.- A Worcester County Circuit Court judge has sentenced three men to prison in connection with a 2017 rape in Ocean City, Md.
According to prosecutors, on Aug. 14, 45-year-old Larry Kendall of Elkton, Md., became the last of three co-defendants to be sentenced for the crime of second-degree rape.
Judge Beau H. Oglesby sentenced Kendall, as well as co-dDefendant Kyle Davis, 22, also of Elkton, to serve 20 years in the Division of Correction. The third co-defendant, Damien Shiel, 24, of Baltimore, was sentenced to serve 20 years in the Division of Correction with all but 15 years suspended by the court. All three men will be required to register as Tier III (high-risk) sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
The charges stem from a report of sexual assault made in August 2018 to the Ocean City Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division. The victim told investigators that she had been vacationing in Ocean City in June of 2017 with Kyle Davis, his uncle, Larry Kendall, and his friend Damien Shiel.
Prosecutors said that during the vacation, the three men acted together to overpower the victim in their shared hotel room and each of them forced her to engage in sexual acts with them against her will.
Investigators traveled across the state to interview witnesses and were able to corroborate the victim’s account by obtaining her medical records, Facebook messages between the victim and Shiel, and incriminating statements made by Shiel and Davis.
