DARLINGTON - A Stevens Point man faces charges that he drugged a Darlington teen and sexually assaulted her.
Reginald Emmett McCafferty, 31, has his initial appearance in Lafayette County Circuit Court this week on a Class C felony charge of second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim and a Class I felony charge of exposing himself to a child. The maximum punishment in the case is 43 and a half years in prison and on parole and fines of up to $110,000.
A tip from Lafayette County Human Services opened an investigation of the case.
According to the criminal complaint, filed Sept. 24:
McCafferty and the victim met in 2012 through Kik, the instant messenger app for smartphones. He was 28.
On July 12, 2014, he gave her a drink, telling her it was a mix of orange juice and Everclear grain alcohol. Soon after drinking it, she felt "fuzzy" and dizzy. She later told investigators that the effect was much stronger compared to her past experiences drinking alcohol.
After she went to lie down, McCafferty undressed her and raped her. She had no strength to get away from him and came in and out of consciousness during the assault, then "blacked out," she told investigators.
McCafferty has no previous convictions of violent or sexual crimes. He served a year-long deferred prosecution in Portage County in 2012 on charges of possessing marijuana, drug paraphernalia and an amphetamine, LSD or psilocin (mushrooms) and 13 months of probation on a misdemeanor conviction of possessing drug paraphernalia in 2005.
Reginald Emmett McCafferty, 31, has his initial appearance in Lafayette County Circuit Court this week on a Class C felony charge of second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim and a Class I felony charge of exposing himself to a child. The maximum punishment in the case is 43 and a half years in prison and on parole and fines of up to $110,000.
A tip from Lafayette County Human Services opened an investigation of the case.
According to the criminal complaint, filed Sept. 24:
McCafferty and the victim met in 2012 through Kik, the instant messenger app for smartphones. He was 28.
On July 12, 2014, he gave her a drink, telling her it was a mix of orange juice and Everclear grain alcohol. Soon after drinking it, she felt "fuzzy" and dizzy. She later told investigators that the effect was much stronger compared to her past experiences drinking alcohol.
After she went to lie down, McCafferty undressed her and raped her. She had no strength to get away from him and came in and out of consciousness during the assault, then "blacked out," she told investigators.
McCafferty has no previous convictions of violent or sexual crimes. He served a year-long deferred prosecution in Portage County in 2012 on charges of possessing marijuana, drug paraphernalia and an amphetamine, LSD or psilocin (mushrooms) and 13 months of probation on a misdemeanor conviction of possessing drug paraphernalia in 2005.