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Ryker Buxton, 18, charged with 22 offenses, including child rape.

Buxton allegedly groomed a 12-year-old girl and secretly lived in her home for 10 days.

Prosecutors claim Buxton planned to run away with the girl to start a new life.

BLUFFDALE — An 18-year-old man is facing nearly two dozen criminal charges after police say he "groomed" a 12-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her multiple times while secretly living in her home.

Ryker Buxton was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with child kidnapping, three counts of object rape of a child, three counts of sodomy on a child, and three counts of rape of a child, all first-degree felonies; burglary and five counts of sexual abuse of a child, second-degree felonies; and six counts of unlawful kissing of a child, a cl

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