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January 11, 2008

Dance instructor, facing R.I. charges, convicted in Mass.

TAUNTON, Mass. -- A dance instructor has been convicted in Taunton of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl he met at a former dance studio.

Keith Sampson testified during the trial that he never had a sexual relationship with the teenager. But the jury found him guilty yesterday of raping the girl at a Taunton hotel in January 2005.

The jury acquitted Sampson of another charge that he raped the girl at his home.

The student, now 18, testified that she had a four-month sexual relationship with the instructor that began during a trip to Germany.

Sentencing is set for February 22.

The 29-year-old Sampson also faces charges that he raped another girl he met at a dance studio in Johnston. The police have accused him of giving the girl alcohol, then assaulting her at his home in Easton, Mass.

-- The Associated Press

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