AUGUSTA – The mother of a 14-year-old girl who authorities say is the latest victim of a twice-convicted rapist said her daughter was seeking a sense of comfort when she stood outside Kennebec County Superior Court on Thursday after her alleged attacker was led from a courtroom.

“She had to see he’s in jail, shackled, and in an orange uniform,” said Susan Walker of Augusta as she and her daughter stood among a crowd urging tougher sentences for sex offenders. “She needs to feel he’s not in her bedroom. I think that makes her happy to see he’s been locked up.”

Albert Dumas Jr., 33, of Whitefield is accused of kidnapping the girl at knife point from Augusta on Aug. 13, tying her hands with plastic wrist restraints and repeatedly sexually assaulting her over a period of several hours in Augusta, Windsor and Whitefield before returning her to Augusta.

The girl identified Dumas as her assailant, and he was arrested several hours later.

Authorities in Kennebec and Lincoln counties have filed separate charges.

Charges filed Thursday allege kidnapping and gross sexual assault.

An affidavit by Lincoln County Detective Sgt. Jason Pease said investigators searching Dumas’ home in Whitefield found “numerous pieces of evidence which confirm the victim’s story.”

Thursday’s charges were filed by Lincoln County District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau. Dumas heard a judge read identical charges plus a charge of terrorizing against him in Kennebec County on Aug. 16.

He did not enter a plea either time.

Dumas denied a Kennebec County charge of violating probation by committing criminal conduct on Aug. 13. Justice Nancy Mills ordered Dumas held without bail on the probation violation and set bail at $500,000 cash or $1 million worth of property in each county on the other charges.