DNA match leads to arrest in ’04 park rape

A South Toledoan was arrested yesterday in the rape in 2004 of a girl at a south end park after authorities received a DNA match in a state crime lab database from collected evidence.

Chad Bork, 33, of 150 Corinth St., was being held in the Lucas County jail on one count of rape pending arraignment today in Toledo Municipal Court. He was arrested without incident about 11 a.m. in South Toledo.

Bork was charged in the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl Aug. 12, 2004, at Danny Thomas Park in the 2200 block of Broadway. The girl was playing with her cousin when a man engaged them in a game, separated them, and assaulted her.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation had a DNA match on evidence from a rape kit taken from the victim. Ohio began collecting DNA from inmates imprisoned on felony convictions in 1996.

Bork twice served time in state prison, the most recent being August, 2005, to September of this year for aggravated riot.