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A West Seattle man vehemently insisted Friday that he didn’t rape a woman in February 2017 after she suffered a stroke following a car crash.
But King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff said video-surveillance footage was proof of his disrespect for his victim and her body.
Rogoff, who presided over the rape and assault trial of Chayce Hanson earlier this year, said he re-watched the surveillance footage from outside a West Seattle restaurant that showed Hanson groping and kissing his victim, who was passed out cold, unable to even lift her head.
“This is a woman who is being sexually assaulted and has no ability to do anything about it. Period,” Rogoff said. Instead of getting the woman someplace safe or summoning medical help,
Rogoff said Hanson — who was apparently driving drunk — slammed his pickup into some rockery, causing the woman’s head injury and subsequent stroke. He then took her home and raped her.
Rogoff sentenced him to just over 25 years in prison, the top end of the standard sentencing range.