Davis man convicted of raping roommate’s girlfriend while she slept, Yolo DA says
A Yolo County jury convicted a Davis man for raping his roommate’s girlfriend while she slept before she woke up and fought off her attacker, prosecutors said.
The jury on Friday found Jon Paul Dunlevy, 41, guilty of rape of an unconscious person, according to a news release from the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.
“The way in which the sexual assault was committed in this case was the ultimate act of cowardice,” District Attorney Jeff Reisig said in the news release. “The victim in this case showed incredible strength, resilience and patience. She knew the scrutiny victims of sexual assault face but simply wanted her voice heard. Today it was not only heard but believed.”
On Sept. 2, 2018, the 23-year-old woman, identified as “Jane Doe” in the news release, visited her boyfriend at his home in Davis. She, her boyfriend and another woman went to a bar in downtown Davis.
Prosecutors said they returned to the house later and continued to celebrate; Dunlevy joined them there. The other woman in the group was “highly intoxicated,” and she fell asleep on a futon in the bedroom where the group had gathered that night, according to the news release.
Dunlevy rubbed the woman’s bare thighs toward the bottom of her skirt, the District Attorney’s Office said. Jane Doe, who was the only other person awake, tried to distract Dunlevy to get him to stop touching the other woman, prosecutors said.
Jane Doe had Dunlevy help her lower the futon, before Jane Doe joined the other woman in the futon. She then told Dunlevy that she would be sleeping in the futon with her female friend.
Jane Doe, at the time, did not know that Dunlevy also lived in the four-bedroom house. Jane Doe told Dunlevy he could sleep in the other bed with her boyfriend. Dunlevy then climbed onto the other bed and turned off the lights.
In the early morning hours of the following day, Jane Doe woke up and found Dunlevy sexually assaulting her, so she fought him off, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Her boyfriend woke up and found her crying. She then told him what had happened to her.
Prosecutors said Dunlevy told law enforcement investigators that he thought Jane Doe was the other woman, that the sex was consensual and that they never even had sex. DNA evidence linked Dunlevy to the sexual assault, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Dunlevy is scheduled to return to Yolo Superior Court Nov. 8 for his sentencing hearing. Prosecutors said Dunlevy faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.
