HEMPSTEAD MAN ARRAIGNED IN RAPE

Andrew Dodwell, 42, of 19 Emery Street, Hempstead, was arraigned yesterday morning in First District Court in Hempstead on charges that he raped and sodomized a 15 year old girl.  He is being held on $50,000 bond or $10,000 cash bail.  He is charged with third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy.  Dodwell raped and sodomized the girl in a New Cassel home on Friday around 8 p.m.  The girl told her mother, who then notified the police.  Dowdell is an acquaintance of the girl's family.

(Hempstead, New York)