Police have charged a 62-year-old convicted sex offender with rape and probation violation after they say he attacked a senior woman in Savannah on Wednesday.
James Thomas Bateman of the 5500 block of Montgomery Street was arrested after Savannah-Chatham police stopped him driving near the Thomas Square/Midtown location where the assault occurred.
Bateman was visiting a woman he knew when he attacked her, said Julian Miller, metro police spokesman.
Bateman had served a 15-year sentence from a rape and incest charge in 1995 and later served seven months of a 10-year sentence for six counts of failure to register as a sex offender, Miller said.
Violent crimes detectives continue to investigate.