VALDOSTA — The State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied parole Tuesday for a Lowndes County man convicted of rape and aggravated assault in 1992.

Clarence Samuel Ivey, Jr., 43 was convicted May 20, 1992, in Lowndes County Superior Court and received a life sentence for the rape and an additional 20 years for the assault. Ivey began his prison term in June 1992, and this was the second time his parole was denied by the Board, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

On Nov. 8, 1991, Ivey knocked on the victim’s door and asked to use the telephone. The victim recognized Ivey and allowed him into her home. The victim left the room until Ivey was finished. As she approached the door to see Ivey out, he grabbed her and attacked her. Ivey raped the victim and beat her so severely that she was bleeding from her eyes, mouth and nose when she was found. Her face and neck were extremely swollen and her chin was pushed to one side, according to reports.

“The victim of this crime defied the odds, surviving an attack that doctors said would have been fatal to most,” Parole Board Chairman Garland R. Hunt said. “The brutality of the attack weighed heavily on the Board’s decision. Parole is denied.”

Ivey is not scheduled to be reconsidered for parole until November 2014, according to the DOC.

Georgia statute requires that all inmates serving life sentences be considered for parole at specified intervals. Consideration, as illustrated by Ivey’s case, does not imply that parole will be granted.

There are approximately 6,000 inmates serving life sentences in the Georgia prison system. At least 50 percent of those cases have been considered and denied parole at least one time, according to the DOC.

Ivey is currently serving his sentence at Augusta State Prison in Augusta.