KNOXVILLE MAN CONVICTED OF RAPING 10-YEAR-OLD
Sentencing is set for July 12 for a 25-year-old Knoxville man convicted Wednesday of raping a 10-year-old child.
Cody Lynn Wyrick was convicted of rape of a child, rape and aggravated sexual battery.
During Wyrick’s two-day trial, prosecutors from the Knox County District Attorney’s Office say he’d been a houseguest from March through July 2012 and babysat the 10-year-old and a sibling. They said Wyrick used a game of hide-and-seek to isolate the victim in a bathroom, where he sexually assaulted the child.
Prosecutors say Wyrick later assaulted the same victim in a bedroom. The victim disclosed the rapes five years later. Wyrick admitted to them during a police interview.
Wyrick faces a minimum of 25 years in prison with no possibility of parole.