Prank call leads to statutory rape charge

What began as a prank call that a man had been shot ended up with the caller being arrested on a statutory rape charge after deputies tracked down the call and found him with a girl younger than 16, Baldwin County Sheriff's Office officials said today.

David Wayne McCarn II of Bay Minette, 18, was charged with second-degree rape and rendering a false alarm. He was being held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center with his bail set at $11,000, according to jail records. The incident began around 11 p.m. Thursday when Baldwin 911 operators received a report that someone had been shot and was lying in the front yard of a home, Sheriff Huey "Hoss" Mack said.



Officers traced the call to a cell phone and through the telephone provider located the phone. Arriving at the location in the White House Fork community, officers found a teenage girl, the phone's owner, still in bed and McCarn hiding in a closet, Mack said.

Mack said that after interviewing the girl and McCarn, investigators determined that the two had sex that evening and the defendant was charged with rape. Under Alabama law, a man who is 16 or older who has sex with a girl younger than 16, but older than 12, can be charged with second-degree rape. A defendant convicted of the Class B felony can be sentenced to two to 20 years in prison.