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The suspect in a Kettering rape of a random victim is on trial this week.

Ted Mullins — who was identified by a DNA rape kit tested years later — faces a kidnapping charge and three counts of rape. The accused sexual assault happened in June 2009.

Kettering police said in January that DNA links Mullins to their case.

Jury selection, opening arguments and some testimony from the prosecution is expected today in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Members from the crime lab, responding officers and the female victim — whom this news outlet is not naming — are expected to testify during the trial this week.

The victim told police she was abducted from the 3200 block of Wilmington Pike around 1 a.m. June 27, 2009 as she was walking from her apartment to a Speedway.

The victim, who lives in Cincinnati now, said she wants her story to be shared about how this was a random abduction. She plans to study nursing and help other victims of sexual assaults.

One of the women then allegedly punched the employee in the back of the head, grabbed her by the hair and flung her into the stock room, the report says. The woman began punching the victim in the face, while the other kicked her in the face, according to the police report. She tried to call police but the phone she was holding was knocked out of her hands.

The women then told the victim the incident was about a surveillance video of them allegedly shoplifting a few hours earlier that was posted on a crime monitor page on Facebook, the report says. The women then left the store.

The victim had visible swelling to her cheek under her eye and one of her front teeth was knocked flat inside her mouth, the police report says.

A manager arrived on scene and provided video of some of the incident. The manager later received a message on Facebook that read: “(Expletive) take the photo down or you getting beat (expletive) up. Your manager just got her (expletive) beat and you can to. We will come back there every day.”

No charges have been filed at this time due to a lack of suspect information, the report says.