by ‘Jola Sotubo

A 22-year-old Nigerian man resident in the US has been found guilty of raping a bedridden 92-year-old woman.

Samuel Onyenweaku, a former aide at the Amber Park Nursing Home in Cincinnati, is said to have taken advantage of the ill woman who could no longer communicate.

Onyenweaku was found out when a nursing supervisor tried to enter the victim’s room but found it locked. He is facing up to 20yrs in jail.

Daily Mail reports:

A prosecutor says the woman died in February from an unrelated condition.

A nursing supervisor testified against the young man, saying that she had tried to enter the resident’s room, but the door was locked. When she finally opened it, she says she found the resident naked from the chest down.

Her night gown had been pushed up to her breasts. A man’s pants, underwear and shoes were lying under the bed.

The supervisor then tried to enter the woman’s private bathroom, but that door was also locked. She got in with a master key and found Onyenweaku. The victim was a widow with no children.

A former school teacher in Kentucky, she was bed-ridden and could not communicate.

‘This is terrible. She did know what was happening,’ said Assistant Prosecutor Anita Vizedom. ‘This was the end of her life.’

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Onyenweaku was convicted of rape, felonious assault and patient abuse on Monday. He could face 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced on July 28.