A Nicaraguan migrant who has been deported from the United States ‘five times’ is jailed for 19 years for raping a developmentally disabled Ohio woman claiming he was ‘possessed by a demon.’
German Matthews, 40, pleaded guilty last month to rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, and was sentenced on Wednesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for the brutal crime.
Matthews approached the 44-year-old special needs woman when she was walking to a bus stop at Forest Park near Winton Road and Smiley Avenue on April 29 while she was on her way to work.
The assailant grabbed the victim and threw her down a hill into a wooded area where he sexually assaulted her and battered her until she was beaten and bloodied.
A person who witnessed the heinous act called 911. When police arrived, Matthews was still on top of the victim. As he tried to flee, police pursued him and he was arrested shortly after, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Forest Park police Sargent Jackie Dreyer said the woman was beaten so viciously that Matthews hands were ‘covered in the victims blood.’
Pictured: German Matthews, 40, pleaded guilty last month to rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, and was sentenced on Wednesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for the brutal crime
Forest Park police Sargent Jackie Dreyer said the woman was beaten so viciously that Matthews hands were ‘covered in the victims blood’ and called him an ‘animalistic predator whose actions are beyond words’
Matthews attorney, James Bogen, told Judge Alison Hatheway that his client came to the country undocumented from his native Nicaragua to escape poverty. Bogen said his client had no recollection of the attack and said ‘he was horrified’ when he was shown the officer’s bodycam video and ‘felt terrible about what he did’
The victim survived but suffered multiple head injuries and facial fractures.
Dreyer outraged by the attack called Matthews an ‘animalistic predator whose actions are beyond words,’ as he ‘preyed upon an innocent victim.’
She described the incident as one of ‘the most heinous crimes she has ever investigated’ in her 20-plus years in law enforcement.
Matthews was in the United States illegally at the time of the April attack, and is expected to be deported despite being deported five other times and having re-entered re-entered the country.
Depending on his conduct in prison, the state prison system could hold him for up to five and a half additional years.
His attorney, James Bogen, told Judge Alison Hatheway that his client came to the country undocumented from his native Nicaragua to escape poverty.
On the day of the attack, he said his client had stolen alcohol from a nearby inconvenience store and was intoxicated.
He said based upon post-examination, Matthews was likely in a state of ‘alcohol-induced psychosis.’
Bogen said his client had no recollection of the attack and said ‘he was horrified’ when he was shown the officer’s bodycam video and ‘felt terrible about what he did.’
He claimed his actions at the time was because he was ‘possessed by a demon.’
In the courtroom, he told the judge that the man who attacked the stranger ‘is not the German Mathews you see here today.’