Trial ordered in sex assault case

A 32-year-old La Vista man accused of raping a 22-year-old Papillion woman after she passed out in an Omaha hotel room will face a criminal trial.

Douglas County Judge Marcena Hendrix found sufficient evidence to send the case of Jacob J. Bol to District Court on a felony charge of first-degree sexual assault. Bol, who described the sex as consensual, remains in custody at the Douglas County Jail.

Omaha Police Detective Amber Schlote testified at Bol's preliminary hearing Wednesday and gave the following account of the alleged assault:

The 22-year-old woman attended a Dec. 12 party with friends at the Holiday Inn near 72nd and Grover Streets. After a night of drinking, the woman feel asleep on top of a hotel room bed, still wearing a dress. When she awoke, a man she later identified as Bol was sexually assaulting her. She yelled at him.

“What's going on?”

The man climbed off of her, and she fell back to sleep. She awoke some time later to find the same man back on the bed, allegedly assaulting her again. This time, she screamed. This time, she pushed the man off.

She called 911. When police arrived, she identified Bol as her attacker. She also told police she did not know the man.

“Four witnesses heard her screaming,” Schlote testified.

One person, who ran into the hotel room, saw Bol sweating and putting on a shirt as he ran to the hotel room door. The woman was taken to Bergan Mercy Medical Center, where she was examined for evidence of sexual assault.

Public defender Cheryl Kessell argued at the hearing that Bol did not rape the woman. Bol told police he'd had consensual sex with the woman, Kessell said.

“At no time did she ever tell him ‘no' or to get off her,” Kessell said.

Contact the writer:

444-1056, john.ferak@owh.com

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