A truck dispatcher from West Chester is now being held on a $1 million bond, for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 16-year old girl last week.
The bond for Steven Toy was increased late Monday morning, after a Butler County magistrate received new information about Toy's past.
When 9News first left the arraignment hearing for Steven Toy at the old Butler County Courthouse; his bond for allegedly kidnapping and raping the teen was $400,000. But within an hour, that was increased to $1 million, based on that new information given to the court.
The 41-year-old truck dispatcher appeared on a video connection from the Butler County Jail. Toy deliberately held his face down and away from the camera during the entire hearing.
The charges against him stem from his arrest on Friday, after a teen girl turned up at a West Chester day care center bound with rope.
Toy is accused of picking the girl up from her Colerain Township home with the offer of a ride in a tractor-trailer. West Chester police say when Toy attacked the girl after he got her inside the truck.
During Monday's first court hearing, Toy requested not to have his face shown. He told Magistrate Fred Miller, "All I can say is that I'm not disrespecting you. But I haven't been given a chance to wash up in jail. I still have sleep in my eyes. I don't want to show my face. I'm not trying to disrespect you."
Within an hour, West Chester police called to say they thought Toy was on a federal probation list. Toy says he got off that probation on a drug charge over two years ago.
Based on his probation status, and what West Chester police say is a considerable "flight risk," Magistrate Miller increased Toy's bond from $200,000 on each charge, to $500,000 for each of the kidnapping and rape charges.
Toy is due back in court Tuesday afternoon for a preliminary hearing in West Chester. That is a hearing where Toy will be required to appear in person.
