Man Convicted in Long-Term Rape of Daughter

Dec. 10, 2021 – The biological father of a young woman was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting her over a three-year period beginning when she was 13 years old, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

    A Criminal Court jury convicted 47-year-old Myles Wiseman III on two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, two counts of incest, and one count of rape.

    He remains in custody and will be sentenced later by Judge Lee Coffee.

   According to trial testimony this week, Wiseman began sexually assaulting his daughter in 2012 when she was 13, assaults that continued until she was 16. She said her father frequently had sex with her at her aunt’s home near Lamar and Pendleton, and often in his work van.

    In 2015 the young girl went to the Child Advocacy Center where she disclosed the sexual assaults by her father. After his indictment in 2016, Wiseman told his daughter on a recorded jail call that “if you tell the truth I’m going away for 25 years.”

    Wiseman also encouraged his father and girlfriend to try to convince his daughter not to come to court and to write a letter recanting her statements about the sexual encounters that began soon after he was released from prison on a previous carjacking and kidnapping conviction.

    The case was handled by Asst. Dist. Attys. Dru Carpenter and Alyssa Hennig of the District Attorney’s Special Victim’s Unit which prosecutes cases of rape, child sexual abuse, severe physical abuse of child victims, elder abuse, and vulnerable adult abuse.