Former Marine admits to beating man and raping his daughter

From the Honolulu Star Advertiser: http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/118821734.html

Former Marine admits to beating man and raping his daughter

By Nelson Daranciang

POSTED: 07:07 p.m. HST, Mar 28, 2011

A 29-year-old former Marine accused of beating up a Washington man he met on the pool deck of a Waikiki condominium-hotel then raping the man’s 10-year-old daughter has agreed to a 30-year prison term.

Christopher Cantrell pleaded guilty in state court today to five counts of first-degree sexual assault, one count of third-degree sexual assault, promoting child abuse, kidnapping, burglary and assault in a plea deal with the state. The child abuse charge is for recording pornographic images of the girl.

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Police said Cantrell met the girl and her father Sept. 17, 2008 on the pool deck of the Waikiki Banyan and accompanied them to their 12th-floor hotel room. They said Cantrell asked the man if he could take nude pictures of the girl then punched him repeatedly until the man was unconscious.

He then took the girl to the 10th-floor laundry room where he raped her, police said.

Cantrell is originally from South Carolina.

He was court martialed while in the Marine Corps and sentenced to three years of confinement for missing duty, being drunk on duty, stealing a big screen television from the barracks’ common area and setting fire to one of the rooms, according to his military record. Cantrell recently completed his confinement when he met the man and girl visiting from Washington.

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