PROSECUTOR: RAPIST TARGETED DRUNK LOYOLA STUDENT, WOMEN IN CLUBS
A 34- year- old Chicago man raped four women, dating back to 2002, targeting young women at night clubs and a heavily intoxicated 18- year- old he encountered outside a Loyola University dorm, Cook County prosecutors said.
DNA evidence links cab driver Gabriel Dathey to the assaults, Assistant State’s Attorney Julia Ramirez said Wednesday.
Dathey was ordered held without bond.
The first victim, an 18- year- old student, was returning to her dormitory from the bar in the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 2002.
The victim was having trouble walking, and Dathey led her to a bench and began kissing her and put his hand down her pants, Ramirez said. Dathey tried to have sex with the victim but was unable to, and ran.
A decade later, a 21- year- old au pair from Finland met Dathey while at a friend’s birthday party in April 2012. Dathey bought the woman drinks, and she felt as if she was under the influence of “an unknown substance,” Ramirez said. A witness said he saw Dathey follow the woman into a bathroom, and when they came out, Dathey told the witness he and the woman had sex, Ramirez said.
Two weeks after that assault, a 21- year- old woman met Dathey at Berlin night club, where he bought her two drinks, Ramirez said. The woman said she felt as if she had consumed something other than alcohol, Ramirez said. The woman was in an out of consciousness but remembered Dathey having sex with her.
A fourth woman, 30, reported being assaulted by Dathey in 2014, and DNA collected then linked Dathey to the crime.