This should never have gone to trial. We’re intruding on this man’s grief way too much. It’s not like he was expected to keep doing this to some other elderly woman not his wife.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2015/04/22/henry-rayhons-acquitted-sexual-abuse/26105699/
“There was no eyewitness to the alleged sex act.
Donna Rayhons’ roommate, who tearfully complained that night about hearing something improper going on behind a curtain, never specifically told staff members the sounds were sexual. The defense lawyer called the 86-year-old woman to the stand last week. When he asked her whether the sounds were sexual, she replied: “I really can’t say.”
An exam done on Donna Rayhons that night found no sign of injury. Also, lab tests done on swabs from that exam found no conclusive evidence she’d recently had sex. Although an expert testified that the lack of evidence didn’t necessarily mean no sex occurred, there was no physical proof it did occur.
During a secretly taped two-hour interview a few weeks later, a DCI agent got Henry Rayhons to admit he’d tried to have sex with his wife. But Rayhons sounded confused at times on the recording played in court, and his lawyer contended the agent badgered the elderly man into agreeing to a false statement.”
Unless there is some major element missing here, I can’t believe this went to trial in the first place.
So, the woman must have showed signs of sexual activity, and the nursing home filed a complaint.
If the husband denied having sex with her, that could mean someone else at the nursing home assaulted the woman. If so, then the nursing home could have filed charges against the husband to cover up the assault and protect an employee or other resident of the home.
Sounds like this nursing home needs a cursory investigation from outside.
What if it were turned around?
What if the demented party was the male, and the female lured him sexually, although perhaps his dementia prevented him from giving consent?
Could his friends testify that old Charley would have consented?
Can we file durable advance consent writings?
Just thinking out loud.
“Rayhons served 18 years as a Republican member of the Iowa House. He withdrew from the race for another term shortly before he was charged last year”
There you have it, folks. The whole point of this exercise.
Good!
If we were to pursue the terrorists like we do Republicans in this country, we would be making some progress against terror.
Good. This case should never have been brought in the first place.
This is totally a piece of crap reporting.
No man who loves his wife would do such a thing if she was not able to function or if she was totally incapacitated.
My wife and I enjoyed “having fun” but as she neared death due to myotonic dystrophy, the thought would never enter my mind.
I think this story is pure BS and if somehow she said someone had sex with her I think I would be looking at the medical staff there.
No man who truly loved his wife would ever think of anything like the article described.
Nobody’s making rounds in this place? Where was the staff during this so-called activity? Oh wait...probably having sex with each other.
This country has gone completely insane.
What business could this be of a prosecutor?
Or of the staff of the care home?
I didn’t realize that Iowa was this tyrannical.
This prosecution was obviously politically motivated. Just as in Wisconsin and Texas.
I’m just shocked. I never would have guessed that the politician who ginned up this attack on a Republican was a Democrat. Who could have seen that coming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Miller_%28politician%29
If they are living together and one spouse is senile sex is okay but move into a nursing home then sex is rape? Interesting distinction.