Colorado Longmont woman accused of raping male friend
Longmont woman accused of raping male friend
LONGMONT, Colo. — A 53-year-old Longmont woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion that she drugged a male friend during a backyard barbecue and then raped him, police said.
Janice Lynette McCarl was booked into the Boulder County Jail at 7:40 p.m. Wednesday on suspicion of sexual assault, a class-three felony.
Longmont police Cmdr. Tim Lewis said reports of female-on-male rape are very rare; one victims’ advocate said this was only the second local instance she could remember happening within the past decade.
Lewis said McCarl is accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a 50-year-old male friend.
“She allegedly took unwanted advantage of this friend in a manner he did not want or approve of,” Lewis said.
The man told detectives the incident happened on Nov. 9 at his Longmont house and involved “unwanted penetration.”
A police report released Thursday details the graphic allegations.
The man reported that he was at a barbecue at his home with McCarl.
He said he felt “funny” after some drinks — which he later told investigators were drugged — and went inside and passed out.
About a half-hour later, he claims, he awoke with a painful sensation. He said he remembered waking up intermittently with the woman’s “hands in him.”
He said he could not fully wake up or move, and remembered the woman telling him, “It is OK, go back to sleep.”
He told detectives he recalled waking up the next morning to find the woman sleeping next to him — her shirt covered in blood and lotion, and a bottle of Lubriderm on the table near the woman.
In response to his questions about what happened, McCarl allegedly laughed and said, “What did I do, kill somebody?”
They had coffee together and she left, according to the report.
The man said he spoke with the woman later on and she admitted to drugging him that night, but would not say what she used.
“She apologized to him and he told her that was mean, nasty and disgusting,” police wrote in the report.
Detectives have been investigating the report since then, police said, and arrested McCarl on a warrant.
Lewis, the Longmont commander, said McCarl and the man had a consensual intimate relationship prior to the incident.
On Thursday, a Boulder County judge set McCarl’s bond at $10,000. He denied her request to reduce bond.
According to records with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, McCarl has two arrests in 2000 for using fraud to obtain dangerous drugs and possession of dangerous drugs.
Janine D’Anniballe, the executive director of Boulder’s Moving to End Sexual Assault, said the Longmont case is only the second time in her 10 years with the agency that she’s heard of such an incident.
“These types of cases, where there is an adult woman with an adult male, are very rare,” she said. “Certainly, women can be offenders, but usually their victims are children or young adults.
Men can be victims, but usually as children or young adults or with male perpetrators.”
D’Anniballe said there is often a stigma associated with anyone who is a victim of a sexual assault, but that effect is magnified for male victims.
“There’s this idea that, because he’s a man, he should have just enjoyed it,” she said. “In this case, that is a gross misstatement.
“I think what he did by coming forward is extremely brave. It is no less a rape than any other kind of rape. We need to be supportive and understanding.”
