Rape Consensual Because Woman Was Sleepwalking ?
Dexter Ford, 52, who is charged with raping a 23-year-old woman says that the hideous act was consensual because the woman was sleepwalking.
Ford’s lawyer Jeff Adams argues that the sexual assault that took place on early Thursday morning near Interstate 71 in Cincinnati can be considered consensual because the woman has a history of sleepwalking.
Adams said prosecutors told him the woman takes prescription medication and has a sleepwalking condition, a fact that will likely be the core part of Ford’s defense:
“It goes to consent,” “How is he to know she is sleepwalking, if it’s a dream ‘yes’ or a real ‘yes?’ “
Cincinnati police said:
Two passing motorists reported seeing Ford on top of a woman near a White Castle restaurant on Taft Road near I-71, and called police from their cell phones.
When police arrived, the woman was still asleep,and was taken to University Hospital for treatment.
Apparently the victim sleepwalked through the entire encounter.
