This archive report was first published on 23 August 2019.
On August 23, 2019, a US court handed down a life sentence to Anthony Mamboleo Nyakeo, a former healthcare worker in Texas, for the rape of a 74-year-old woman suffering from dementia.
The victim, who had Alzheimer's disease, was a resident at the Woodridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Grapevine, where Nyakeo worked.
According to the Dallas district attorney's office, Nyakeo committed the assault in January 2018, despite knowing the patient could not consent to sex or resist due to her mental condition.
Prosecutors presented evidence of vaginal tearing consistent with sexual abuse and DNA recovered during a sexual assault exam that tied Nyakeo to the assault.
Nyakeo's defense claimed that someone took his DNA from a used condom and planted it on the victim's body, but the court found him guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of an elderly or disabled person.
The victim died later that year at the age of 75.
