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New sex assault charge for Colo. slaying suspect

By Solomon Banda
Published December 12, 2012 6:50pm ET
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New sex assault charge for Colo. slaying suspect
FILE - This undated booking photo released by the Westminster, Colo., Police Department shows Austin Reed Sigg. A motions hearing is scheduled Wednesday Dec. 12, 2012, for Sigg, who is charged with murder and other crimes in the abduction and slaying of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. (AP Photo/Westminster Police Department, file) | HO

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday they have filed an additional sexual assault charge against a teen accused of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old Colorado girl.

The additional charge and a sentence enhancing charge of a crime of violence alleges that 17-year-old Austin Sigg used physical force and threats to sexually assault 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. Prosecutors also tweaked some language and corrected spelling errors in charges previously filed in Jessica’s disappearance and slaying Oct. 5. Jessica was abducted as she walked to school in the Denver suburb of Westminster.

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