Ex-Hubbard mayor Keenan indicted on child rape charges

WARREN

Richard D. Keenan, 65, who served as Hubbard mayor through 2010 and 2011 and also was a city councilman in the 1990s, kept his head low while being arraigned Thursday on eight counts of rape of a small child, four counts of attempted rape and eight counts of gross sexual imposition.

The arraignment took place in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court shortly after he was indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury. The charges accuse him of assaulting the same child from the fall of 2013 through this June, when the allegations surfaced.

Twelve of the charges carry a possible life prison sentence if he’s convicted. The eight others each could add several years. Keenan lives on Moore Street in Hubbard.

The rape counts each could produce a maximum sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole. The attempted-rape counts each could produce a prison sentence of 10 years to life.

Keenan pleaded not guilty, Judge W. Wyatt McKay set bond at $75,000, and Keenan posted that.

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