Cincinnati rape investigators ended Monday with a confession in the attack on an 11-year-old girl, but also many questions in two other incidents in which women were badly beaten.

        Terrin Hardgrove, 28, of Price Hill, was charged with one count of rape in the March 12 attack on the girl in a Price Hill graveyard.

        He admitted to the sexual contact, according to his arrest report, and said he's addicted to multiple drugs.

        Mr. Hardgrove had some contact in the past with the girl's father, said Lt. Kim Frey, supervisor of the Cincinnati Police Department's personal crimes unit.

        Authorities said Mr. Hardgrove met the girl that afternoon in front of a drugstore on Glenway Avenue and took her to the nearby Rosemont Avenue cemetery.

        Earlier Monday, women in South Fairmount and at another undetermined Cincinnati location were attacked, police said. Investigators don't know whether the two incidents were connected.

        A 23-year-old woman suffered skull fractures as she tried to escape a man who might have been trying to rape her, police said. She was able to make it to a house on Blaine Avenue in South Fairmount about 2:40 a.m., where the occupant called 911.

        The woman was in critical condition at University Hospital late Monday and needed surgery, Lt. Frey said.

        Doctors told investigators they might be able to speak with her today. But until then, they don't have a description of her attacker, Lt. Frey said.

        In the second case, a woman reported at 7:30 a.m. at Hughes High School in Corryville that she was attacked before arriving there by a man armed with a screwdriver. She also was badly beaten and hospitalized.

        Detectives were still trying to determine where that crime occurred, Lt. Frey said.

        The woman in the South Fairmount attack was so badly hurt, police records show, that officers first thought she'd been shot in the head.

        “I would agree it's very strange to have two severe beatings like this in the same day,” Lt. Frey said.

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