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Daniel Wesley
East End rape suspect found guilty
10 victims identified assailant at trial
It took a jury less than two hours yesterday to find Daniel Wesley guilty of being the East End rapist who attacked eight women and girls.
Wesley, 27, stalked the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of East Liberty, Highland Park and Homewood two years ago. The women and girls he raped or sexually assaulted ranged in age from 13 to 44.
"This was one of the most brutal
eries of rapes just because of the sheer numbers," Janet Necessary, the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, said last night.
"I was very happy for the victims. It was a hard
thing for them. Most of them were really traumatized by this event," Necessary said. "He wouldn't have been caught exc
ept for Charmaine Dunbar."
Dunbar is the University of Pittsburgh security guard who, after being accosted twice on the same August morning, shot Wesley twice in the abdomen and escaped unharmed.
Victim testimony and Pittsburgh police put the finishing touches on the case.
Each of the eight girls and women testified at the trial this week and identified Wesley as their attacker.
At one point as he scoured the East End, four females were attacked over 24 hours. Three of the women and girls, including a 13-year-old girl, escaped.
A fourth girl, 14, was grabbed early the following morning and dragged into an alley in East Liberty where she
was raped, sodomized and beaten.
Police, interviewing a 13-year-old from the night before the 14-year-old's ordeal, noticed a blood stain on the witness' shirt. DNA tests showed the b
lood
came from Wesley.
By trial time, investigators had gathered tissue and fluid sample from four of the incidents that matched Wesley's DNA.
Ref: Serial rape suspect ordered held for trial
Daniel Wesley
East End rape suspect found guilty
10 victims identified assailant at trial
It took a jury less than two hours yesterday to find Daniel Wesley guilty of being the East End rapist who attacked eight women and girls.
Wesley, 27, stalked the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of East Liberty, Highland Park and Homewood two years ago. The women and girls he raped or sexually assaulted ranged in age from 13 to 44.
"This was one of the most brutal
eries of rapes just because of the sheer numbers," Janet Necessary, the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, said last night.
"I was very happy for the victims. It was a hard
thing for them. Most of them were really traumatized by this event," Necessary said. "He wouldn't have been caught exc
ept for Charmaine Dunbar."
Dunbar is the University of Pittsburgh security guard who, after being accosted twice on the same August morning, shot Wesley twice in the abdomen and escaped unharmed.
Victim testimony and Pittsburgh police put the finishing touches on the case.
Each of the eight girls and women testified at the trial this week and identified Wesley as their attacker.
At one point as he scoured the East End, four females were attacked over 24 hours. Three of the women and girls, including a 13-year-old girl, escaped.
A fourth girl, 14, was grabbed early the following morning and dragged into an alley in East Liberty where she
was raped, sodomized and beaten.
Police, interviewing a 13-year-old from the night before the 14-year-old's ordeal, noticed a blood stain on the witness' shirt. DNA tests showed the b
lood
came from Wesley.
By trial time, investigators had gathered tissue and fluid sample from four of the incidents that matched Wesley's DNA.
Ref: Serial rape suspect ordered held for trial
