Jury Clears Sleepwalker Accused Of Rape -Student Charged With Entering Dorm Rooms Of 10 Women

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[chance33_98]

Jury Clears Sleepwalker Accused Of Rape
Student Charged With Entering Dorm Rooms Of 10 Women

POSTED: 7:08 a.m. EDT June 25, 2002 UPDATED: 10:52 a.m. EDT June 25, 2002

AMHERST, Mass. -- A former Massachusetts Maritime Academy student, who claimed he was suffering from a hereditary sleepwalking disorder, has been acquitted of charges of sexually assaulting women students in a UMass dormitory in Amherst.

A Hampshire Superior Court jury found Adam Kieczykowski, 19, of Westfield, N.J., not guilty on all 22 charges he faced.

He had been accused of entering the rooms of 10 women students after a night of drinking with friends at UMass in May 2001.

Two jurors told the Union-News newspaper in Springfield, Mass., that the sleepwalking defense hadn't affected their verdict. They cited the inability of victims to identify their assailant and said prosecutors failed to establish criminal intent.

[chance33_98]

Was his name Kennedy?

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm surprized that X-42 didn't think of that excuse.

[chance33_98]

With a wife like Hitlery, he knew the American public would understand.

[Wolfie]

Uh...his defense for entering their rooms was that he was sleepwalking, so he admits to being in the rooms, but the jury says because the women couldn't identify him as the man who entered their rooms, which he as admitted to being by way of his defense, so they let him off? He must have had the extreme bad luck to be sleepwalking into women's rooms on the very same night they were sexually assaulted by some other guy. Hoo-kay!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He must have had the extreme bad luck to be sleepwalking into women's rooms on the very same night they were sexually assaulted by some other guy. Hoo-kay!

I think his mere entry into the rooms was the "assault." I don't believe he ever actually touched anyone.

[Wolfie]

Well, the headline says Rape. Maybe somebody took the short bus to Journalism School.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Well, the headline says Rape. Maybe somebody took the short bus to Journalism School.

He raped 10 women 22 times in one night?! Wow!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Well, the headline says Rape. Maybe somebody took the short bus to Journalism School.

He raped 10 women 22 times in one night?! Wow!

[blau993]

After a night of drinking too! Ah, to be young again (and to have an hereditary sleepwalking condition and a jury dumb enough to buy that as my excuse).

[Randjuke]

Was he also able to open locks while sleepwalking? Or did all the girls leave their doors open?

[#1CTYankee]

From The Springfield Union News

Adam Kieczykowski, 19, was accused of wandering the hallways of Coolidge Dormitory in the early hours of May 13, 2001, entering 10 rooms, indecently assaulting three women, attempting to rape two others, and stealing a bra, a bottle of vitamins, a pair of scissors, and some bikini bottoms in the process. According to prosecutors, one student awoke to find Kieczykowski trying to cut her blouse off with the scissors and another found him tugging at her underwear.

[maximus@Nashville]

They cited the inability of victims to identify their assailant....

Perhaps they slept thru the assaults....Don't you hate it when that happens?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I stand corrected.

[Tacis]

Something is fishy, here. When did U Mass. begin admitting males who preferred females?

[GovernmentShrinker]

You beat me to the punch on this very obvious point.

All of you who have daughters in college, or soon to be in college, take the time today to sit them down and have a talk about the importance of keeping their dorm room doors locked when they or their roommate is sleeping. Tell your daughters to have this talk with their roommates on day one, and make it clear that a single infraction will be reported to the college administration and a room change demanded. Tell them to call you immediately if a roommate leaves the door unlocked when your daughter is sleeping in the room, and then you call the college officials, and follow up with an e-mail threatening legal action if the roommate is not moved out of the room immediately.

I know from experience that college students tend not to take this seriously ("nothing would really happen"), and that college administrations make almost no effort to impress this issue on students. My freshman year at a small women's college in an upscale suburb, two of my classmates/dormmates learned about this the hard way. Roommate 1 was sleeping in her room with the door locked; roommate 2 entered the room, then went to the room next door to visit a friend, not locking the door behind her ("I'm only going right next door"); next thing roommate 2 knows, security officers and police are crowding the hallway outside her room, responding to a call from roommate 1, who had been sexually assaulted by 5 members of the rugby team from a nearby coed college. The 5 had talked their way in the locked front door of the dorm, following someone in saying they were there to see a friend (tell your daughters to politely leave such people outside the front door, and leave it to their alleged hosts to let them in). The 5 simply wandered the halls, trying doors until they found one unlocked with a sleeping occupant. Then they did whatever they wanted with her. Roommate 2, next door in a room which shared a wall with the room where the assault took place, never heard a thing.

I hope that this true story will be passed along to vulnerable young women, and that it will prevent someone from suffering a similar fate.

[RainDog]

10 women? The way dreams work, after the first 3 or 4 shouldn't he have run off to raid the cafeteria? fly an F16? or get into a shootout with terrorists?

10 women seems too much to stay asleep through:)

[hellinahandcart]

He raped 10 women 22 times in one night
(and never once stopped snoring...) =>:@

[monday]

"Uh...his defense for entering their rooms was that he was sleepwalking, so he admits to being in the rooms, "

How could he admit he was in their rooms since if he was sleepwalking he wouldn't remember? I used to be a sleep walker, believe me, you don't have a clue the next morning.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, the headline says Rape. Maybe somebody took the short bus to Journalism School.

I think the UMass definition of rape is "standing within 20 feet of a woman without her consent".

[gonzo]

**you don't have a clue the next morning.**

My brother Bob, whom I slept with, used to play football in his sleep. Usually it was just running into walls and falling down a lot. He made it downstairs one night - right into my mothers China cabinet.

He would wake-up cut and bruised some mornings, never remember a thing, and accuse me of beating him up.

I told him that it was the people that we adopted him from that tried to take him back, but I woke up during the fight and scared 'em off with my .22...........FRegards