Posted on 04/22/2015 3:25:47 PM PDT by iowamark
A jury in Hancock County has found Henry Rayhons not guilty.
He was accused of having sex with his wife, Donna Lou Rayhons while she was suffering from dementia in a care center and may not have been able to give consent. She died last summer...
Rayhons testified himself that the couple did not have sex on May 23, 2014, the day of the alleged sexual abuse.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office gave KIMT a statement following the verdict on Wednesday:
“Our office prosecuted this case based on a complaint, thorough law enforcement investigation, and Iowa law. The jury made its decision, which we respect.”
After about 13 hours of deliberation over three days, jurors on Wednesday found 78-year-old Henry Rayhons not guilty of third degree sexual abuse of his wife Donna Lou Rayhons. He was accused of having sex with her at a nursing home on May 23 after being told by a doctor that she was no longer capable of consenting due to dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease. She died in August.
Henry Rayhons testified in his own defense that on the night in question the couple held hands, prayed and kissed, but had no sexual contact...
The key issue was when a previously-consenting spouse is no longer mentally capable of consenting to sex. Iowa law defines an act as sexual abuse in the third degree if the two parties are not living together as husband and wife and if one person “is suffering from a mental defect or incapacity which precludes giving consent.”..
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
(Excerpt) Read more at kimt.com ...
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.
“WTH are sexual sounds and can an 86 year old be credible to knowing what she heard?
There’s a reason she’s in a home—”
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Well maybe she’s in a wheelchair but all other faculties are okay.
Think !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey, at least I offered...
LOL
Looking up Keely Smith....
I’m so stoopet!
I knew who Keeley was.
Wait, it’s Wednesday?
K.
I’m actually pretty dumb on Wednesdays and everyone knows that....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsDy1ntpFaY
She’s my homegirl, born in Norfolk, VA; and she was your Louis’ wife... for a while...:-)
Enjoy!
-JT
Snort!!!!! ack!!!!
Precisely.
About a week or two before Debbie went home, she came into our room (she had been staying on the hospice bed out in the living room for the last month or so), and woke me up by crawling into bed naked .... I awoke and looked at her and she said words that no other human could ever know and we "held" each other for a long time ... until she drifted back into chemo sleep.
Because my comment is ...
yours is the second human response on this thread
I promise, I’m a woman. Have no plans to change that.
-JT
Oh knarf. I’m glad.
Utterly absurd. No physical evidence and barely any circumstantial evidence. On what would they base the charge? Republicanism?
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