Facing years in jail, rapist remains stoic
Domenique Thomas Wilson did not flinch and showed no emotion yesterday when the jury forewoman announced that he was guilty of all 14 charges stemming from two violent 2008 home invasions, during which he raped and robbed two women and assaulted two other people.
Domenique Thomas Wilson did not flinch and showed no emotion yesterday when the jury forewoman announced that he was guilty of all 14 charges stemming from two violent 2008 home invasions, during which he raped and robbed two women and assaulted two other people.
Wilson could face more than 100 years in prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 11 by Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Cunningham III.
That would be on top of the 70 to 196 years that Wilson, 25, was sentenced to in June for raping two female Lock Haven University students and assaulting a third.
"We're going to ask for a very lengthy sentence and we're certainly going to ask that his sentence be consecutive to whatever time he's doing for his Lock Haven case," Assistant District Attorney Mark Cipolletti said.
Starting on Monday, city prosecutors presented a stack of evidence as tall as Wilson's 6-foot-7 frame. He attended and played basketball at Lock Haven University, in Clinton County, Pa.
Among the most damning was that his DNA was recovered from the woman he raped in Center City on Oct. 22, 2008, and from the woman he raped in University City on Dec. 19, 2008.
The woman in the first attack and her boyfriend told the jury of how a mask-wearing Wilson brandished a large knife and forced his way into her Clinton Street apartment, tied the man up and repeatedly raped her over several hours.
The woman in the second attack and her roommate - who were University of Pennsylvania students - told a similar story, except that he had a gun and a knife. Before sexually assaulting the woman, Wilson made her bind her roommate's hands with duct tape, the women said.
Before Wilson left the Spruce Street apartment, he stole money and ATM cards from both women, just as he had done to the Center City couple.
"The commonwealth attorneys put in evidence very nicely and cleanly. I believe he got a fair trial," defense attorney Michael I. McDermott said. "The whole case is a shame that it had to go on like this. But it's over now."
