INDIANAPOLIS The man charged in connection with two Monon Trail sexual assaults has now been charged in a 2016 child sexual assault case in Lawrence.

Larry Duerson Jr., 27, faces two counts of rape and two counts of child molesting, all Level 1 felonies, in the February 2016 case.

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced the charges Thursday after DNA evidence connected Duerson to the previously unsolved case.

According to court documents, a 13-year-old child woke up to find someone sexually assaulting them in their bedroom in February 2016. The attacker entered through a cut window screen and threatened to shoot the child and everyone in the house if they made noise.

The assault lasted 45 minutes to an hour, according to the probable cause affidavit. The attacker told the victim

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