Northeast man charged with statutory rape

Jackson County prosecutors charged Hussein A. Ahmed last week with allegedly attempting to have sex with his step daughter when she was younger than 14-years-old, according to the Jackson County’s Prosecutor’s Office.

Prosecutors say Ahmed, 27, married his late brother’s wife and cared for the brood. He’s charged with first attempting to have sex with step-daughter sometime in 2004, when she less than 12-years-old.

In the first half of 2007, Ahmed allegedly tried again, this time impregnating the victim, who was younger than 14-years-old.

At the time, according to the probable cause statement, the victim and her mother filed a police report saying the assailant was unknown. During interrogations, Ahmed claimed the charges against him are the product of a vengeful wife planning to divorce him.

We may never know.

Last week, on the same day the alleged rape victim came forward, police responded to a home on the 1200 block of Askew and found Ahmed’s wife, 49-year-old Halimo Ahmed, dead. Police now are considering Halimo Ahmed’s death a homicide.

The alleged rape victim aborted her pregnancy in 2007, but not before a

DNA sample was taken. Police are matching that sample with a swab that

Ahmed let them collect. Additional charges are pending, according to the prosecutor’s office.