Daughter catches family friend raping mom with Alzheimer’s, CA officials say
A man accused of raping a woman who has Alzheimer’s disease has been convicted, California prosecutors say.
A jury convicted Joseph Lynn Johnson, 46, of rape of an incompetent person, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in an April 24 news release.
“We are grateful to the jury for their careful consideration and for delivering a verdict that brings justice to the victim,” Deputy District Attorney Emily Reber said in the release. “This defendant exploited the vulnerability of a woman who deserved care and dignity, not manipulation and harm.”
Johnson, a family friend, visited the woman’s Port Hueneme home, where she lived with her daughter in February 2020, prosecutors said.
The daughter, who is the caregiver for her mother, stepped away for a shower, prosecutors said.
When the daughter returned, she found “Johnson on top of her mother in the bedroom,” prosecutors said.
In addition to rape, a judge found Johnson guilty of the special allegation that the woman was vulnerable, prosecutors said.
Johnson, who is being held without bail, is scheduled to appear in court May 22 for sentencing and faces eight years in state prison, according to prosecutors and jail records.
Port Hueneme is about a 60-mile drive northwest from Los Angeles.
