by Mark Wasson
David Lavern Twite is charged with felony third- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a mentally impaired of physically helpless victim. Penetration is mentioned in one of the charges.
Twite was summoned to appear in court March 29, 2023.
Most of the sexual assaults occurred in Dakota County, according to the criminal complaint. No charges have been filed against Twite, according to the Dakota County Attorney's Office.
According to the criminal complaint:
Twite repeatedly raped the woman over the course of five years, starting when the juvenile was 13-years-old.
The woman is considered mentally impaired, according to Minnesota Statute, and she has has mild to moderate developmental cognitive disability and is speech language impaired. When she turned 18-years-old, an adult guardianship was granted in Dakota County.
The woman's mother reported the sexual assaults to the La Crescent Police Department on April 22, 2022.
Most of the sexual assaults occurred in Dakota County but one incident occurred in the man's La Crescent apartment.
Police found several sexually explicit text messages and notes between Twite and the woman on her cell phone.
Twite denied sexually assaulting the woman during a May 10, 2022, interview with law enforcement but said he could have accidentally touched touched her inappropriately while wrestling around.
On Nov. 2, 2022, an investigator learned that Twite's girlfriend had contacted the woman's mother to say that Twite was offering the mother $10,000 to "drop the charges."
When the investigator went to question Twite about the
bribe at his apartment, he saw the investigator and slammed his door,
refusing to come out.
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