October 9, 2024
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that today, Robert Joseph Bryant, 68, was arraigned in a Multnomah County Circuit Court on charges including kidnapping, sexual abuse, and coercion in relation to the September abduction of an intellectually disabled adult woman from a care home in the Centennial neighborhood.
At a hearing on October 9, 2024, Bryant was arraigned on the following charges:
- One count of Kidnapping in the First Degree,
- One count of Kidnapping in the Second Degree,
- One count of Coercion,
- One count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon,
- One count of Attempted Assault in the Second Degree,
- One count of Public Indecency, and
- Three counts of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree
A charging instrument is only an accusation of a crime. Bryant is innocent unless and until proven guilty.