UTAH – A Utah man who used his “long john” to try and save a woman’s life has been charged with sexual assault.  The suspect stands accused of physically assaulting a neighbor, but believes it was a “life or death” situation because she was passed out cold and needed to be warmed up.

Police have arrested and charged Roger William Kelly, 50, for the alleged sexual assault that took place in St. George on May 19.

Kelly reported seeing his neighbor, a 29-year-old woman, lying unconscious on the front porch of her apartment. In his best effort to “save her life,” he took her inside his apartment, placed her on his bed, and proceeded to take her clothes off.

When the police arrived Kelly was giving the woman CPR but during the attempted “rescue,” Kelly believed that having sex with the woman would keep her warm. He told the authorities he was trying to save her life since she had been lying outside. Police wrote a probable cause statement saying the suspect “attempted intercourse to keep her temperature up.”