Star of Discovery Channel reality series Sons of Guns, 51, is convicted of raping two young girls in Lousiana
- Will Hayden, the former star of the reality TV series Sons of Guns, was convicted Friday of raping two girls in Louisiana
- Hayden, 51, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape and faces a sentence of life in prison
- His 15-year-old victim told jurors that Hayden repeatedly raped her over the course of a year-and-a-half in 2013 and 2014, when she was 11 and 12 years old
- A 37-year-old woman testified that Hayden raped her in the early 1990s, when she was 12 and 13
Will Hayden, the former star of the reality TV series Sons of Guns, was convicted Friday of raping two girls in Louisiana.
Hayden, 51, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape. He faces a sentence of life in prison.
Hayden's victims, a 15-year-old girl and a 37-year-old woman, cried and hugged in a Baton Rouge courtroom as the jury's unanimous verdicts were announced, according to the Advocate.
Will Hayden, the former star of the reality TV series Sons of Guns, was convicted Friday of raping two girls in Louisiana
The Discovery Channel canceled Sons of Guns amid Hayden's legal troubles.
His 15-year-old victim told jurors that Hayden repeatedly raped her over the course of a year-and-a-half in 2013 and 2014, when she was 11 and 12 years old.
His former employee Rebecca Ramsey testified that she walked in on Hayden in August 2014 kissing the girl in his house, and filed a report with East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office one day later, the Advocate reported.
In her testimony on Wednesday, the young girl said that she was performing oral sex on the 51-year-old as Ramsey walked in on them, according to the paper.
Testifying Thursday, the girl said she was raped by Hayden and forced to perform oral sex, and that also Hayden got her contraceptive gel, it was reported this week.
She also claimed that as a way of dealing with the abuse, she cut herself, smoked, and drank.
Hayden (shown in 2014) was accused of raping a girl over the course of a year-and-a-half in 2013 and 2014, when she was 11 and 12 years old
Hayden was also accused of raping a 37-year-old woman in the early 1990s, when she was 12 and 13. The Discovery Channel canceled Sons of Guns amid Hayden's legal troubles
A 37-year-old woman testified that Hayden raped her in the early 1990s, when she was 12 and 13.
She claimed on Tuesday that Hayden asked if she wanted to get high in 1992, and that they smoked marijuana in his bedroom before he raped her, according to the Advocate.
The woman testified that in 1993 he raped her again at a friend's home, when she was on a couch and told him to stop.
She was quoted as saying: 'He didn't listen. I was so scared. I didn't want to go through this again. I remember feeling I must have done something wrong.'
Hayden denied all the rape allegations when he testified Thursday at his trial, the Advocate reported.
Hayden is scheduled to be sentenced in May, but his aggravated rape conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Pictured is a DVD cover for Sons of Guns
In a 2014 appearance on the Dr Phil show, Hayden's adult daughter Stephanie (above) alleged her father once came into her room drunk and kissed her
A prosecutor, Sonya Cardia-Porter, called Hayden a 'master manipulator' who lied to the jury in a 'pretty-well-rehearsed' performance.
Hayden is scheduled to be sentenced in May, but his aggravated rape conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
He also faces separate rape charges in Livingston Parish and has a trial scheduled for July. An aggravated rape charge concerns the 15-year-old girl and a sex crime charge concerns his adult daughter Stephanie Hayden, the Advocate reported
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