A 55-year-old convicted sex offender is jailed in Bates County, Missouri, on five
Nashville arrest warrants charging him with repeatedly raping a 14-year-old female singer he
was managing.
Robert “Rob” Lile of Topeka, Kansas, traveled to Nashville with his 14-year-old client
last Saturday so that she could perform in a talent showcase. While with the victim at the
Division Street hotel in which they were staying Saturday night, Lile is alleged to have pulled
a knife and repeatedly raped the teen over a period of hours after threatening to kill her.
Early Sunday morning, Lile is alleged to have ordered the victim into his car where, she said,
the molestation continued as he drove through Nashville and surrounding areas. Ultimately,
Lile returned to the hotel, packed his belongings and left at approximately noon Sunday. The
teenager was left behind. Officers, including Sex Crimes Detective John Farrell, responded
to the hotel Sunday afternoon after the victim contacted her parents.
Investigation by Detective Farrell led to information that Lile was likely in Bates
County, Missouri, near the Kansas state line. Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson and his
staff, along with members of the Butler, Missouri Police Department, acting on information
developed by Nashville detectives, located Lile at the home of a relative and took him into
custody without incident Monday. Lile appeared before a Missouri judge today and waived
extradition. He is expected back in Nashville in a few days.
Lile met the victim in this case last July when he was a judge in a Kansas talent show.
In 1983, Lile was convicted in Kansas of aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated
sodomy involving a high school girl. Lile challenged the requirements of Kansas’ sex
offender rehabilitation program to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 2002.
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