Falmouth man to serve two years for sexually assaulting a passed out woman
By: Ross Perry
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NEW BEDFORD, MASS (WLNE) A Falmouth man was sentenced Thursday to two years in the Bristol County House of Corrections for sexually assaulting a passed out female.
61-year-old Russell Lopes pleaded guilty last week against charges of indecent assault, battery, and larceny against a woman he was acquainted with.
According to the district attorneys office, Lopes and the victim drove from Falmouth to New Bedford and picked up a woman neither of them knew.
The three then began drinking heavily for the next few hours until the victim passed out in the back of the truck they were in.
That is when Lopes began sexually touching the victim while she was passed out and began making lewd comments to the other woman. The other woman then left the truck to get her husband.
When her husband arrived he took the victim to a “known crack house” on Tallman Street and brought Lopes back to Falmouth.
When a resident of the Tallman Street home found the victim drunk and unconscious having hurt herself falling down, the resident brought the victim to the hospital.
There a rape kit was performed. The results of the test found DNA that was later matched to Lopes.
In a statement, District Attorney Thomas Quinn said “This case highlights the importance of Modern technology in solving what would have been an otherwise difficult case,”
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