A Pataskala, OH man was convicted after 5 hours of jury deliberation in the rape of a then 23 year old woman on New Years Day 2007 Thursday. Gregory S. Willis, 40, attacked the woman at her apartment complex in Columbus and, then raped her in his van on COlumbus' east side. Willis was convicted of 2 counts of rape and a count of kidnapping. He is charged with raping a second woman.
No date has been set for a trial on the second rape charge. Willis is accused of attacking a woman he met in a West Side bar three months after the attack for which he was convicted.
Willis is a suspect in a third rape. That woman told police that Willis had raped her, after officers described a tattoo of a scorpion on one of his arms. Willis wore long sleeves in his trial this week.
The woman in the Jan. 1 attack told jurors she was walking to her car about 8 a.m. when a man grabbed her from behind and punched her in the face before throwing her into a minivan parked nearby. She said he forced her to perform oral sex as he drove around Bexley. She escaped when he slowed the minivan, Assistant County Prosecutor William Davies said.
Police and a witness found the woman running down the street and bleeding from the mouth, according to testimony.
Willis faces 30 years in prison when he is sentenced on May 28 by Common Pleas Judge Charles A. Schneider. Rape is a tier 3 offense, meaning if released, Willis will spend the rest of his life on the Sex Offender Registry, and will have to report every 90 days.
No date has been set for a trial on the second rape charge. Willis is accused of attacking a woman he met in a West Side bar three months after the attack for which he was convicted.
Willis is a suspect in a third rape. That woman told police that Willis had raped her, after officers described a tattoo of a scorpion on one of his arms. Willis wore long sleeves in his trial this week.
The woman in the Jan. 1 attack told jurors she was walking to her car about 8 a.m. when a man grabbed her from behind and punched her in the face before throwing her into a minivan parked nearby. She said he forced her to perform oral sex as he drove around Bexley. She escaped when he slowed the minivan, Assistant County Prosecutor William Davies said.
Police and a witness found the woman running down the street and bleeding from the mouth, according to testimony.
Willis faces 30 years in prison when he is sentenced on May 28 by Common Pleas Judge Charles A. Schneider. Rape is a tier 3 offense, meaning if released, Willis will spend the rest of his life on the Sex Offender Registry, and will have to report every 90 days.
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