Affidavit paints disturbing picture of suspect's sex assault on elderly woman

Donald Levier (Dover Police photo)

DOVER - A Somersworth man arrested on Tuesday in an attempted sexual assault case on New York Street in Dover was also arrested in Somersworth on Sept. 5 in what is alleged to have been a much more violent attack, according to a police affidavit obtained by The Rochester Voice.

Somersworth Police say they responded to a mobile home park after someone reported hearing a female yelling for help.

Responding officers found that Donald Levier, 35, of Somersworth had gained access to a mobile home belonging to a female and attempted to sexually assault the victim by throwing her on a bed and trying to remove her pants and underwear.

The Somersworth incident report also alleges he slapped and strangled her and also held her down.

Police found Levier with no clothes on in the woman's bathroom where he was arrested. He was charged with sex assault, simple assault, criminal restraint and second degree assault.

After learning of the previous arrest, Dover Det. Andrew Courter then contacted the Strafford County Jail and found that Levier had been released to Strafford County Community Corrections on Sept. 7, but had been returned to jail on Sept. 15 after he was found to not be in compliance with conditions of his release. He was then released again two days later.

One of the conditions of Levier's release from custody was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet, which showed his whereabouts the night of the second incident on New York Street, where the attempted sexual assault occurred.

According to the affidavit, Levier is accused of entering a New York Street residence around 1:10 a.m. on Tuesday, getting into an elderly woman's bed and attempting to sexually assault her.

The affidavit notes that the woman uses a CPAP breathing machine and had gone to bed between 10 and 11 p.m. only to awake to feel a hand moving down her back and onto her buttocks in the areas of her vagina and anus.

Startled, she sat up in bed and saw the person whom she described as a thin black male who smelled strongly of alcohol and cigarettes and had an erect penis, the affidavit states.

The man said "Let me get a piece" and "come on, Mommy," according to the affidavit, and asked her for a cigarette.

The victim said she told him to get out and was ushering him to the front door when he turned and went into her granddaughter's room, tried to exit through a window but then slammed the window down waking up the granddaughter.

The man then went to the front door and finally left after which the victim called police, the affidavit states.

Levier was arrested around 1 p.m. on Tuesday after police found him hiding in woods near the Dover Public Library.

He is currently being held at Strafford County Jail on two no bail orders.

His next hearing was not immediately available.