METRO AREA RAPIST GOES ON TRIAL

Atlanta-Defendant Christopher Baker of Atlanta goes on trial Thursday, August 19th before Judge Alford Dempsey in Fulton County Superior Court; courtroom 5-D.

The 35-year-old Baker is named in a 23-count indictment which charges him with rape, kidnapping, aggravated sodomy, robbery by snatching, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and robbery by force. He is being tried for six violent rapes he is accused of committing in Fulton County from May 1998 through October 2002. His DNA profile matched the evidence in the Fulton cases and matched three rapes cases in Dekalb County as well.

Assistant District Attorneys Gayle Abramson and Fani Willis, with the District Attorney's Crimes Against Women and Children Division, are prosecuting.

CONTACT: Lyn Vaughn, 404-224-0560 (office); 404-533-1381 (pager)