It took about three hours for a Dallas County District Court jury to return two verdicts of guilty in the rape trial of a Perry man Wednesday.
Eric Chandler Parmenter, 29, of Ankeny and formerly of Perry was found guilty on two counts of third-degree sexual abuse-forcible rape in crimes dating from 2010.
District Court Judge Gregory A. Hulse accepted the verdicts in the trial that lasted two days. The state’s case was argued by Assistant Dallas County Attorney Ericka W. Clark, and Parmenter was defended by Des Moines attorney Christopher Ross Kemp.
Parmenter was originally charged with four counts of third-degree sexual abuse for two rapes in 2008 and two more in the 2010. Two of the counts were dismissed Monday.
The crimes occurred in Perry. The victim reported the rapes in June 2017, and an investigation by the Perry Police Department resulted in Parmenter’s arrest in March 2018.
Parmenter was taken into custody following the verdict. He will be held without bond in the Dallas County Jail until he is sentenced Nov. 16.
Parmenter’s father, Mark Gordon Parmenter, 55, of Elkhart was arrested in April and charged with sexually assaulting the same juvenile victim in 2010 whom his son has been convicted of raping.
The father is charged with two counts of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and one count of invasion of privacy. Parmenter’s trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 15 in Dallas County District Court.