UTAH – A Utah man who used his “long john” to try and save a woman’s life has been charged with sexual assault.\u00a0 The suspect stands accused of physically assaulting a neighbor, but believes it was a \u201clife or death\u201d situation because she was passed out cold and needed to be warmed up.<\/p>\n
Police have arrested and charged Roger William Kelly<\/strong>, 50, for the alleged sexual assault that took place in St. George on May 19.<\/p>\n Kelly<\/strong> reported seeing his neighbor, a 29-year-old woman, lying unconscious on the front porch of her apartment. In his best effort to \u201csave her life,\u201d he took her inside his apartment, placed her on his bed, and proceeded to take her clothes off.<\/p>\n When the police arrived Kelly<\/strong> was giving the woman CPR but during the attempted \u201crescue,\u201d Kelly<\/strong> 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 \u201cattempted intercourse to keep her temperature up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UTAH – A Utah man who used his “long john” to try and save a woman’s life has been charged with sexual assault.\u00a0 The suspect stands accused of physically assaulting a neighbor, but believes it was a \u201clife or death\u201d situation because she was passed out cold and needed to be warmed up. Police have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}