St. Paul man gets 17 years in prison for 2 rapes 12 years apart

A -year-old St Paul man was sentenced to years in prison Friday for committing two rapes about years apart the latest one while he was on probation for a sexual assault Thao Xiong shown in January Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office In January Thao Xiong was charged in Ramsey County District Court with raping a -year-old St Paul woman he met on Facebook At the time of the offense he was on probation for raping a -year-old woman six years earlier in St Paul But he had a longtime secret which came out in March through his DNA He raped a woman at a Maplewood motel in In July Xiong pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the assault and an amended charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in the January occurrence These are separate instances countless years between each other Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Andrew Johnson mentioned at sentencing There are separate casualties and they absolutely deserve their own separate sentence Judge Kellie Charles followed a plea agreement Xiong reached with the prosecution giving him - and four-year sentences to be served consecutively He received credit for days already served in custody After incarceration he will be on lifetime conditional release and must register as a predatory offender sexual assault Xiong was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Ramsey County in July Observers described police that a group of acquaintances had been drinking at Xiong s St Paul apartment and that a -year-old woman became drunk and ended up in his bed the criminal complaint says A witness later looked in the bedroom and saw Xiong on top of the woman who was naked from the waist down She definitively escaped to a different apartment while still partially naked the complaint says She had scratches and bruises on her inner thighs neck shoulder legs and arms Xiong reached a plea deal with prosecutors in February and admitted to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in exchange for the more serious charge being dismissed He was sentenced to days in jail which was time that he had already served after his arrest and put on supervised probation for years January sexual assault Police were dispatched to the -year-old woman s apartment in St Paul s Summit-University neighborhood Jan after she disclosed she had just been forcefully sexually assaulted by a man who was later identified as Xiong the complaint says She described police someone must have given Xiong her phone number because he called asking to meet She agreed and invited him over Related Articles Mahtomedi woman dies after being struck by motorcycle on I- Learner injured man dead in shooting outside Minnesota high school Jett once served St Paul as a police horse now he s in need of help Ex-Oakdale officer determined guilty of misconduct not guilty of harassment for calls to surveillance subject Driver charged in fiery fatal St Paul crash says she was distracted by fast food bag When he entered the apartment she notified police he pushed her into her bedroom took off her clothes and raped her Xiong then left the apartment although she was able to get a photograph of him which she gave to police She stated he left in a black Jeep and gave police his license plate information The woman was taken to the hospital where she underwent a sexual assault examination During the exam she stated Xiong had befriended her on Facebook a day before the assault Physiological records show the woman was injured during the assault and forensic samples were collected for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to analyze After his arrest Xiong underwent a suspect sexual assault examination While waiting to be booked into jail he spontaneously mentioned this was the second person who accused him of rape the complaint says DNA match According to the May complaint a woman stated to police on July that she had just been sexually assaulted at a motel off U S in Maplewood by a man she knew as Chue Lee identified in November through a DNA match as Xiong The woman explained she had been talking with Chue for two days over the phone that she did not know him previously and had assumed he got her number from someone she knew She declared he called her on July and commented he was coming to Minnesota from Wisconsin and longed her to show him around They met in the parking lot of a St Paul grocery store where he suggested they get something to eat Rather than going to a restaurant he brought her to the motel saying he craved to get particular rest before eating Xiong rented the room and once inside locked the door and began ripping her clothes apart the complaint says She disclosed he overpowered her and raped her She went to a hospital for a sexual assault examination the same day A nurse examiner noted bruising to the woman s body and she complained about areas where she stated Xiong had bitten her The complaint says motel video shows Xiong arriving with the woman in a Toyota Prius and leaving minutes later An investigator in late July discovered the sexual assault kit which had not been tested It was brought to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and four months later an unidentified male DNA profile taken from swabs of the woman was entered into the state s DNA databases and the National DNA Index System The BCA notified St Paul police on Nov that Xiong s DNA obtained from his sexual assault event matched the DNA in the assault Police tried to contact the woman but were unsuccessful the complaint says Last March police were explained DNA collected from Xiong in the January affair matched the DNA exposed on the swabs taken from the victim the complaint says Police again tried to reach the woman and were fruitful on April after her son called to ask why they were trying to contact his mother who does not speak English She explained police through an interpreter she had been waiting for a very long time for an update on her development and wants him prosecuted for sexually assaulting her the complaint says It was not my fault At sentencing prosecutor Johnson informed the judge that Xiong s victim did not want to submit an impact message Johnson disclosed she urged him to convey that shortly after the development she had a small stroke that she supposed was due to stress from the sexual assault Johnson then read a announcement from Xiong s latest victim who revealed she was still afraid of Xiong and wondered why he targeted her I never met him before and do not understand why this happened she wrote Over time she wrote I have come to see that it was not my fault Related Articles Ex-Oakdale officer revealed guilty of misconduct not guilty of harassment for calls to surveillance subject -year sentence for New Richmond man who strangled wife after things got out of hand They had just gone out for a bit daughter of New Brighton couple killed by drunk driver says at his sentencing Trump s attacks on Minnesota s Somali population cast a 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