School groundskeeper is sentenced to 20 years for raping Michigan student, 15, who he later 'killed to stop her from testifying while free on bond', but faces life behind bars if convicted of murdering her

A Michigan groundskeeper who was accused of raping a teenager and killing her after he was released on bond has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the sexual assault.

Quinn James, 43, of Wyoming has been found guilty for sexually assaulting 15-year-old Mujey Dumbuya during the summer of 2017, but has not been convicted of her murder.

James raped the then 15-year-old in a school parking lot last summer while a groundskeeper for East Kentwood Public Schools, where she was a student.

James declined to address the court before being sentenced Monday to between 20 and 30 years in prison. Jurors convicted him in October of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Mujey's mother, Fatmata Corneh, collapsed and was sobbing outside the courtroom after James was sentenced.

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