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Rape suspect committed to state hospital

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ATHENS - One of two men accused of the 1999 kidnapping and rape of a University of Georgia student was committed to a state mental hospital on Monday. <br> <br> Anthony Leon Johnson, 31, will stay under 24-hour supervision in a secure state hospital until if ever a judge rules he is mentally competent to stand trial. <br> <br> Johnson&#39;s cousin, 21-year-old Albert Johnson, pleaded guilty in March 2000 to armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault and aggravated sodomy and was sentenced to life in prison. <br> <br> The 20-year-old student was abducted near the university president&#39;s office on North Campus, marched at gunpoint to nearby Dudley Park and was raped and sodomized.
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