by Alex Lloyd Gross
Bryan Stackhouse from New Jersey will be calling a state prison in Pennsylvania home for the next six to 12 yeas after he was convicted by a jury of raping an unconscious woman he met at a bar in Bucks County last February.
Stackhouse was at the bar and met the woman and her friend. Eventually, they went to Stackhouse’s apartment in Falls Twp. When the woman woke up, she was being raped, officials said. The woman went to Jefferson Hospital, Torresdale Division where police were called.
During the investigation, evidence was collected that included a DNA analysis that confirmed Stackhouse’s involvement in the rape. That evidence was presented during 3-day trial before Judge Bateman.
At the sentencing hearing, the court heard the victim’s powerful impact statement read by Assistant District Attorney Jennifer McInerney. In the statement, the victim described the profound and lasting toll the assault has taken on her life. “I’m here today to tell you about how this event has affected my life. Talking about this is really hard for me, but I kept telling myself this is my chance for my voice to finally be heard,” she said in her address to the court. She concluded the statement by asking the judge to consider the weight of holding such pain for the rest of her life.
He then sentenced Stackhouse to five to 10 years in state prison on the first count, one year less a day to two years less a day on the second count, and five years of probation on the third count, with all sentences to run consecutively. He was found guilty in July of this year of rape of an unconscious person, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, and indecent assault.