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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Md. man sentenced to life in prison for attack called ‘every woman’s worst nightmare’

ROCKVILLE, Md. — A Maryland man who was convicted of raping his sleeping neighbor at knifepoint has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2015 home invasion and sexual assault.

In September, a jury convicted Myles Bowersox, now 25, of multiple sexual offense counts and a count of home invasion in the November 2015 attack. The victim was a 63-year-old woman who lived in his Rockville apartment complex just off Twinbrook Parkway, and who suffered from schizoaffective disorder.

After fighting with his girlfriend, Bowersox entered the woman’s bedroom through a window in the early-morning hours, forced sex acts on her and, while holding a knife to her, said he would kill her if she told anyone, according to court documents.

Based on monitored phone calls that Bowersox made from jail, prosecutors believe that he mistook the woman’s mental disorder for dementia.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dave T: Home invasions are heinous crimes, deserving prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.

Anonymous said...

That poor woman
How she must have suffered
I don't think you can post what I think should be done to him. I'll just say he'd be singing soprano

Anonymous said...

Make it so he can never commit another sexual crime again. Hang him from a tree until STONE COLD DEAD. That is the only way to deter others from crime like this by making an example of him and others for like crimes.

Anonymous said...

Forced sex acts are every woman's worst nightmare? Not to minimize the horrible nature of the crime, but I think being murdered would be a lot worse than forced sex acts.

Anonymous said...

i call BS, if he was an illegal or a muslime they would have let him go!