Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, December 24, 1993 TAG: 9312240180
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
A 36-year-old woman told police she was playing the game with two men - one of them her boyfriend - until shortly after midnight Wednesday.
After leaving the game, the woman went to a bedroom where her boyfriend was sleeping and went to bed, she told police.
She was awakened a short time later when the man she had been playing poker with was sexually assaulting her.
The woman told police that her boyfriend was asleep in the same bed with her, but slept through the attack.
The woman said she hit the assailant in the face with her fist and tried to push him off her, but he forced her back onto the bed and raped her. She was treated at Community Hospital.
When police arrived at the home at 12:50 a.m., they found the man she accused.
He told police he had consumed half a pint of liquor while playing poker with the woman and her boyfriend, and "gave a different version of the sexual act," according to a Police Department news release.
William Mark Lowe, 43, of Memorial Avenue Southwest, was charged with rape and sodomy.
He was being held Thursday in the Roanoke City Jail in lieu of $2,000 bond.
by CNB