Pa. man raped 94-year-old dementia patient inside care home: police

By Jonathan Bergmueller

An Allentown man accused of raping a now-dead 94-year-old woman with dementia at the care home where he worked at will go forward trial, according to the Morning Call.

A fellow aide at the South Mountain Memory Care testified Wednesday that she walked into the woman’s room on Feb. 2 at around 5 a.m. and saw Anthony Clark, 49, standing between the woman’s legs and holding her upper thighs, the newspaper reported.

Clark’s pants were pulled down and bunched around his lower legs, the aide told District Judge Jacob Hammon. Because of her condition, the woman was unable to communicate, according to the Morning Call.

“He let go of her and just stood there, staring at me,” the aide said.

After she reported the incident to a supervisor, they immediately fired Clark.

The aide didn’t see a sexual act occurring, but prosecutors said DNA evidence collected during the rape examination belonged to Clark, according to the Morning Call.   

Police charged Clark with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, institutional sexual assault and sexual assault, in addition to rape of an unconcsious victim and rape of a person with a mental disability. The judge this week determined prosecutors had provided enough evidence to carry the trial forward to Lehigh County District Court.

The elderly woman died in June from unrelated causes, according to the Morning Call.

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