Police: St. George man claims he had sex with unconscious woman to ‘save’ her life
A 50-year-old man is charged with first-degree felony rape.
By Janelle Stecklein | The Salt Lake Tribune
A 50-year-old St. George man is in
trouble after he allegedly found a female neighbor unconscious on her
front porch and claimed he had sex with her to try to warm
her.
Rodger William Kelly told police he inserted
his penis inside the unconscious 29-year-old on May 19 because "he was
trying to save her life," according to court documents.
"He said he did place it inside of her to try
and get her temperature up," police wrote in a probable cause statement
filed in 5th District Court.
Police told Kelly that his actions amounted to rape. He was charged Monday with one count of first-degree felony rape.
Kelly told officers that he found the woman
passed out in front of her apartment and brought her inside his
apartment, changed her clothes and put her on his bed. He said he then
lay down next to her and hugged her to try to get her temperature up
because she had been outside, then attempted intercourse to further warm her.
When police arrived, responding to an
unconscious person call, they said they found Kelly inside his apartment
giving the woman CPR.
The woman later told police she thought she
might have been raped and recalled being dressed in a pair of the man’s
underwear and shorts. She told police she had bruising on her pelvic and
upper thighs, according to court documents.
The hospital was unable to complete a rape kit
because the woman’s vaginal area was cleaned while she was sedated,
according to court documents.
Kelly told police that the two previously were
intimate, but admitted the woman had told him before the incident that
she didn’t want to have sex with him again.
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