Macon man who raped mentally disabled woman gets 25 years for ‘savage, inhumane’ act
The rape happened in the predawn hours of Dec. 11, 2015, in the breezeway of a vacant office building behind the Kroger supermarket on North Avenue in east Macon.
The victim, a 20-year-old woman who officials say is mentally disabled and has the mind of a child, later told the authorities that she had repeatedly told David Lee Davis “no.”
Davis, 25, was convicted of rape in February. At his sentencing in Bibb County Superior Court on Monday — where he was sent to prison for 25 years without parole — details of his crime emerged anew.
Assistant Bibb District Attorney Shelley Milton told how Davis had, in giving his own version of the assault, referred to his actions as something “quick and easy.”
“‘Quick and easy’ sex from someone that he assessed on the spot as ‘crazy, off, not right,’” Milton said.
Milton said Davis’ victim was “so innocent” that when authorities discussed the assault with the victim that “we had to use terms like ‘lady part’ and ‘girl part’ … and ‘boy part.’”
Davis claimed to suffer from a learning disability of his own, but he provided nothing to support that contention.
“Something is wrong with him,” Milton, the prosecutor, said, “and that is that he is … a brutal, savage, inhumane rapist who is not fit to live in society.”
Davis’ mother, who attended the hearing in a jacket and pants with the word “Love” printed on them in pink, spoke on her son’s behalf.
Through sobs she told how he was always helpful around the house and that he has a 2-year-old child, but her remarks fell flat as she tried to make sense of what her son did: “He probably got with the wrong crowd at the wrong time. … It’s just the wrong girl at the wrong time. I don’t know what else to say. … He don’t really know no better.”
Davis, meanwhile, said little for himself.
“Son,” Judge Howard Z. Simms told Davis, “you took advantage of woman who, while chronologically an adult, is basically a child. You didn’t have to listen to her talk more than five minutes to figure that out. You could have figured that out. You should have figured that out. And I think that if the truth be known, you probably did figure that out. But you went ahead and did it anyway.”
As Simms explained Davis’ sentence, how a quarter-century prison term is mandatory, Davis seemed to quibble over the facts of the case.
“I’m not a expert,” Davis began, “… (but) if a woman tells me yes to something.”
“I’m not talking about the verdict, son,” Simms said. “The jury’s already found you guilty, OK?”
This story was originally published April 9, 2018 at 10:45 AM with the headline "Macon man who raped mentally disabled woman gets 25 years for ‘savage, inhumane’ act."