January 09, 2010
Mayor Charged With Raping Child
ALBUQUERQUE -- The man elected the first mayor when Rio Rancho became a city nearly 30 years ago has been charged with kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old girl whose family knew and trusted him. William Howden, 70, is being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond. According to a criminal complaint the girl told her mother Howden locked her in a storage shed behind his home in Albuquerque's North Valley on Thanksgiving. There he pulled down his pants and made her touch him, and he also fondled her, the girl alleged. Her mother told police she found blood on her daughter's tights. The girl also claimed the molestation had been going on for months and that Howden made her watch pornographic movies with him.Click Here For The Full Story......