A Nicaraguan migrant who has been deported from the United States 'five times' is jailed for 19 years for raping a developmentally disabled Ohio woman claiming he was 'possessed by a demon.'
German Mathews, 40, pleaded guilty last month to rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, and was sentenced on Wednesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for the brutal crime.
Mathews approached the 44-year-old special needs woman when she was walking to a bus stop at Forest Park near Winton Road and Smiley Avenue on April 29 while she was on her way to work.
The assailant grabbed the victim and threw her down a hill into a wooded area where he sexually assaulted her and battered her until she was beaten and bloodied.
A person who witnessed the heinous act called 911. When police arrived, Matthews was still on top of the victim. As he tried to flee, police pursued him and he was arrested shortly after, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Forest Park police Sargent Jackie Dreyer said the woman was beaten so viciously that Mathews hands were 'covered in the victims blood.'
Pictured: German Mathews, 40, pleaded guilty last month to rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, and was sentenced on Wednesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for the brutal crime that took place April 29 in Forest Park
Forest Park police Sargent Jackie Dreyer said the woman was beaten so viciously that Mathews hands were 'covered in the victims blood' and called him an 'animalistic predator whose actions are beyond words'
Mathews attorney, James Bogen, told Judge Alison Hatheway that his client came to the country undocumented from his native Nicaragua to escape poverty. He said his client had no recollection of the attack and said 'he was horrified' when he was shown the officer's bodycam video and 'felt terrible about what he did'
The victim survived but suffered multiple head injuries and facial fractures.
Dreyer outraged by the attack called Matthews an 'animalistic predator whose actions are beyond words,' as he 'preyed upon an innocent victim.'
She described the incident as one of 'the most heinous crimes she has ever investigated' in her 20-plus years in law enforcement.
Mathews was in the United States illegally at the time of the April attack, and is expected to be deported despite being deported five other times and having re-entered re-entered the country.
Depending on his conduct in prison, the state prison system could hold him for up to five and a half additional years.
His attorney, James Bogen, told Judge Alison Hatheway that his client came to the country undocumented from his native Nicaragua to escape poverty.
On the day of the attack, he said his client had stolen alcohol from a nearby inconvenience store and was intoxicated.
He said based upon post-examination, Mathews was likely in a state of 'alcohol-induced psychosis.'
Bogen said his client had no recollection of the attack and said 'he was horrified' when he was shown the officer's bodycam video and said he 'felt terrible about what he did.'
He claimed his actions at the time was because he was 'possessed by a demon.'
In the courtroom, Bogen told the judge that the man who attacked the stranger 'is not the German Mathews you see here today.'
The bus stop in Forest Park where the victim was spotted before she was dragged into a wooded area by Mathews raped and beaten in the heinous April 29 attack
Mathews also goes by the name Hernan Mateos.
According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Mathews was caught by the Border Patrol in Laredo, Texas, in June 2005 when he entered the United States country illegally.
At the time, the agency told local 12 News, Mathews voluntarily returned across the border.
But, in 2006 he re-entered the United States again this time Miami.
In Miami, he was arrested on three times, in 2006 it was driving without a valid license and a DUI; in 2009 for disorder intoxication and in 2012 for sexual battery and false imprisonment.
According to court records, prosecutors chose not to pursue a conviction in the 2012 case, as per the news outlet.
After he was imprisoned for ICE, Mathews was deported to Nicaragua seven months later but made it back to the U.S. again.
A criminal complaint from July 2017, revealed that Mathews admitted to rafting across the Rio Grande into Texas, The New York Post reported.
He was arrested, convicted and sentenced to one day in prison and fined $10, 12News said.
Immigration attorney Nazly Mamedova told local 12News when asked how it was possible for Mathews to re-enter the U.S. so many different times. She said, 'it is very rare, but it is possible.'
Mamedova said most illegal immigrants who are forced to leave the country are slapped with a re-entry ban. They typically run from three to ten years.
'Sometimes [the] ban is permanent too,' the attorney said.
She also pointed out when Mathews first arrived in the U.S. illegally in 2005 and was sent back to his country that is not considered 'a deportation, per say,' she explained.
Mamedova added; 'You are able to come back again.'
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