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Yeadon police have charged a Northeast Philadelphia man with raping a dying 70-year-old nursing-home patient with Alzheimer's disease and a brain tumor. Doctors say she has less than six months to live.

Timothy Patrick White, 46, waived his preliminary hearing yesterday and was held for trial on 15 counts of rape and related charges.

Police say that White took the victim from the Manor Care Nursing Home to a Southwest Philadelphia bar for rum-and-cokes, then to Cobbs Creek Park, where they drank beer until 5:30 a.m. on July 22.

When he drove the woman back to the nursing home, staffers went to help her out of the car and noticed that White was "not wearing a shirt and his pants were unbuttoned," according to the affidavit for his arrest. They also found bruises on the victim's mouth, neck and arms, and discovered that she was not wearing any underwear. White told workers he was "a friend of hers," then drove away, police said. It was unclear how White was able to leave the home with the woman.

A DNA sample taken from White matched semen recovered from the victim's anal cavity, according to police.

Splain said that the victim doesn't have the ability to form consent - which automatically makes it a rape case - and that doctors believe that she suffers from vascular dementia in conjunction with a brain tumor.

An 84-year-old Upper Darby woman was found suffocated, beaten and left to die in her home, police said Thursday.

The body of Jane Morgan was found in her apartment by her driver on Tuesday, according to authorities. But what was first believed to be a death by natural causes took a more sinister turn after autopsy results indicated she had been suffocated, brutally beaten and sexually assaulted.

At a late-morning press conference, Police Chief Michael Chitwood called the person responsible for the woman's death "an animal."

Morgan was well-known in the area and had apparently lived alone in the fourth-floor apartment with her cats for years. She was known to leave her door unlocked, according to authorities
"This was a brutal and sadistic beating and sexual assault," Chitwood said. "The person who committed this heinous crime is a sadistic animal."

Police have search warrants for several locations in the area.

It is believed the suspect may have lived in the apartment or at least be very familiar with the complex.

A $5,000 reward for information in the case has been posted. Anyone with information is urged to contact Upper Darby police at 610-734-7762.

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. -- A man attacked his girlfriend with a hatchet, struck her with a car when she tried to flee and then raped her during an eight-hour ordeal, police said.

Marlon Dandre Stringfellow, 40, of Merrillville was being held without bond Wednesday night in Lake County Jail on charges of attempted murder, rape, criminal confinement, battery, intimidation and sexual battery.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the woman left the home she shared with Stringfellow Monday night after he became agitated and when she returned, he ordered her out of her car and began hitting her. He then told her to get back into the car and drove to a church, where he ordered her to remove her clothes.

The woman got out of the car and complied, but Stringfellow allegedly took a hatchet from the car and struck her on the arms and legs. He then forced her back into the car and began driving, threatening her life.

The woman fled when Stringfellow stopped for a red light near a gas station, but Stringfellow allegedly hit her with the car while she was running, breaking four of her ribs, said Merrillville police Detective George Fields.

After dragging the woman back to the car, Stringfellow drove her home and raped her, Fields said.

Fields said the ordeal began about 11:30 p.m. and ended shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday.

After Stringfellow fell asleep, the woman got help and she was taken to a hospital for treatment where she received 50 stitches for her wounds, according to the affidavit.

MOBILE, Ala. - Police believe a body found in a small-time evangelist's home freezer is his wife and a mother of eight, and arrested him on a murder charge as he preached at a south Alabama church. Anthony Hopkins, 37, was being held in the Mobile County jail Wednesday awaiting a bond hearing and appointment of an attorney.

Police said no one reported 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins missing, even though she hadn't been heard from in three years. The body was discovered covered in a freezer in a utility room during a police search of the home in Mobile after a relative of the preacher contacted police.

Mobile Police Chief Phillip Garrett said Hopkins was arrested Monday night at at a revival in Jackson, a town in rural Clarke County where he has roots. The pastor of Inspirational Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, Beverly Jackson, told reporters that Hopkins told her he was a single parent because his wife had died in childbirth.

Garrett said Anthony Hopkins, the father of six of the eight children, has been charged with rape and sodomy in a separate case involving the female relative and could face more charges related to another relative.

Garrett said the Hopkins children were home-schooled. He said Hopkins "kept to himself," and apparently moved from place to place. Neighbors called him "Rev." because he attended church so often, loading the children into a van.

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Wilmington police have arrested a man suspected of raping a 95-year-old woman inside her home in the city's historic district.

Brian Anthony Reavis, 41, of Wilmington, was arrested Wednesday night. Charges against Reavis include rape, kidnapping and burglary. He is being held on $1 million bond at the New Hanover County jail.

The woman was attacked April 12 as she picked up a newspaper on her front porch.

Police said the man pushed his way inside and demanded money. The woman gave him $20 sitting on a table. Then the man forced her upstairs to get her purse, raped her and beat her, severely injuring her eye, police said.

She told police she gave birth to twins in 1996, but one of the babies died a few days later as a result of neglect, and Josef F. removed the infant's body and burned it.

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) - A northern New Mexico man is charged with taking a 19-year-old woman as a trade for drugs, then forcing her to have sex.

Herman Flores Jr., 24, is charged with kidnapping, aggravated burglary and criminal sexual penetration.

Española police say the 19-year-old woman's brother traded her to Flores for heroin.

According to a police report, Flores allegedly held her for about a month, from October to November, and saw her as his property.

MESA, Ariz. -- A 28-year-old Mesa man has been arrested in connection with the rape of a 93-year-old woman who activated her medical alert bracelet to summon help from her family, police said.

Peter Cupis was booked on two counts of sexual assault, one count of kidnapping to commit a sexual offense, one count of burglary and one count of sexual abuse.

The victim suffered physical injuries during the struggle and received medical treatment, police said.

Investigators said they believe that Cupis gained entry into the victim's home through a side door Thursday evening.

Three students from Montclair High School were charged on Tuesday with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old special education student at one of their homes last week, prosecutors and the police in the suburban New Jersey community said.

A law enforcement official said the three male suspects — an 18-year-old and two 16-year-olds — forced the girl to perform sex on them and abused her with a broomstick on Thursday afternoon.

Two of the suspects, Romal Roberts, 18, and one of the 16-year-olds, were arrested on Saturday. The third suspect surrendered to the police on Tuesday, the authorities said. The three were charged with multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault.

The Essex County prosecutor, Paula T. Dow, did not say why the victim was in special education classes, but did say that some of the charges had to do with the victim’s “diminished capacity.”

Police in Santa Rosa have released a sketch of a man who carjacked a woman and her young daughter and forced the mother to drive to a dark neighborhood, where he sexually assaulted and stabbed the woman while her child was in the car.

The incident began a few minutes before 6 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of a Safeway on Yulupa Avenue in a residential area of east Santa Rosa. The woman, a 29-year-old Santa Rosa resident, was loading groceries into her car when the suspect approached her.

He threatened to hurt her preschool-age daughter if the woman did not do what he said, according to police. The suspect was armed with an unidentified weapon used in the stabbing, police said.

The suspect forced the woman to drive 2 miles to a dark area on Montgomery Drive, where he assaulted and stabbed her. He did not injure the girl. The suspect then fled, leaving the woman and her daughter in the car.

The suspect is described as a Filipino or Asian man in his early 30s, about 5-foot-7 with a slender build and crooked bottom teeth. He was wearing a dark hat and a dark jacket at the time of the attack.

Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call Santa Rosa police at (707) 543-3595.

A 14-year-old Utah boy has been charged with bestiality and lewdness for allegedly raping a dog, according to local affiliate FOX 13.

If convicted, the teen could face up to one year in jail and a fine of $2,500 under state law, which classifies cruelty to animals as a misdemeanor offense.

Cheryl Smith, executive director of the Utah Animal Adoption Center, said the dog had been molested in "unspeakable ways," but that it was in good care now and adjusting well to its new surroundings, according to FOX 13.

A teenage rape victim remains under heavy sedation after being doused in acid by her attackers.

The 16-year-old schoolgirl suffered horrific burns at an empty house in Tottenham, north London.

Detectives believe the acid — possibly drain cleaner — was used to try and destroy DNA evidence.

They think the victim may have been kidnapped by a gang of youths who then took her to the house before attacking her.

A 17-year-old boy from Tottenham has been charged with rape and grievous bodily harm over the incident.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter, police said.

The father, 32, turned himself into to authorities on Friday and was released from jail Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond. He faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault.

The stepson was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. Police say the father caught him assaulting his daughter, and a subsequent examination at a hospital revealed the girl had been sodomized.

When the stepson was arrested, the man warned his wife not to get the teenager out of jail. She posted bond for the teen's release. When he called home Jan. 3 after getting released, the father took the call and picked him up, police said.

Instead of taking the teenager home, the Arlington man drove to an abandoned house in Fort Worth, beat his stepson with a baseball bat and sodomized him with a metal tool, police said.

A Denver man accused in the brutal sexual assault of a 61-year old woman, who later died, was advised of the charges against him Monday.

Willie Trimble, 45, has been charged with sexual assault and felony murder.

Investigators said DNA tests link Trimble to the crime.

The victim, Judith Pyle, was working as an usher at the Pepsi Center and had ridden a bus home from work on Dec. 8.

She was assaulted in an alley near 35th Avenue and Clayton Street in northeast Denver.

"The attack left her traumatized," said the victim's friend, Mark Rands. "She was on the ground in the snow for 2 hours, in 3 degree weather."

"This is a horrible, unspeakable act no matter who it happened to," said the victim's son, Ronald Pyle. "That it happened to my mother just makes it worse."

Ronald was home cooking dinner on the night of the attack. When his mom failed to show, he assumed that she was staying at a friends house because of the snow storm.

"While I was sitting there waiting and cooking her food and wondering, she was just a block and a half away in the alley screaming for help."

A neighbor finally heard her cries and called police.

Pyle was taken to a hospital, but died from exposure.

A man killed two women and left their bodies in the basement of a house, then beat and raped the daughter of one of the victims in the same home, authorities and a relative of the victims said.

Fabian Hands, 46, was booked on two counts of homicide and two counts of use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Officers were called to the house in north Omaha Monday night. When they arrived, a 20-year-old woman came out of a bedroom and said she had been sexually assaulted. Hands followed her out of the bedroom and assaulted her in front of officers, according to a police report. Officers subdued him and took him into custody.

Police found the bodies of the woman's 36-year-old mother and 48-year-old aunt in the basement during a search of the house, authorities said. Paramedics pronounced the women dead at the scene.