Man who raped Independence mother sentenced to 30 years in prison

Brady Newman-Caddell is serving a prison sentence for rape in Kansas and Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — An Independence man already serving a prison sentence in Kansas for raping a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to one count of rape in Jackson County, Missouri.

Brady Newman-Caddell, 29, was sentenced to 30 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for Rape of Taylor Hirth in 2016.

In 2019, Newman-Caddell was sentenced to 55 years in prison in the Kansas Department of Corrections, the maximum possible sentence, for kidnapping and Rape of the deputy sheriff.

Hirth testified that she was raped by Newman-Caddell in February 2016, eight months before the attack on the deputy. Newman-Caddell was charged with the rape of Hirth in December 2016.

Hirth’s attack occurred in front of her two-year-old daughter when she and Newman-Caddell were neighbors in the same apartment building. William Luth was also convicted in both rapes.

In 2019, Hirth addressed her vulnerability after the rape, saying she felt investigators didn’t believe her or take her case seriously. That was until DNA from a Johnson County police officer’s rape linked Luth to their case.

In 2019, a judge said Newman-Caddell has psychopathic traits and she is convinced that he would attack women again if he were not locked away.