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Lewis has already been given a chance at parole

In 1980, Lewis was convicted of Aggravated Robbery and sentenced to 5 to 25 years. He was released on parole. While released, he raped two women, one of whom was a 14-year-old girl.

Lewis raped a 28-year-old twice because she owed him money

In December of 1985, Lewis sold a portable television to G.B., a 28-year-old female. She paid him half the money and they agreed she would pay off the balance $20 a week. About a week later, at 3 o’clock in the morning, G.B. was asleep in her bed when she was awakened by Lewis standing in her bedroom doorway. She asked him how he got in, and he told her he had a passkey to all the apartments in the building. Lewis asked her for the balance of the money, and when she told him she didn’t have it yet, he told her she would be his payment.

G.B. started to get out of bed, but Lewis told her he had a gun and ordered her back. Then he was upon her.

She struggled at first, but he put a hand over her mouth and threatened her into complying. He then forcibly raped her. Once he was finished, he milled around the apartment looking for things of value. He removed her car keys from her purse and demanded to know where it was parked. G.B. convinced him the car didn’t run and he lost interest in the keys.

By now, three hours had passed since he had first raped her and he decided it was time to rape her again. He forced her back into the bedroom and forcibly raped her again. He then told her he would have a friend come around for the money she owed him and left.

Afraid of retaliation, G.B. was too scared to report the rapes until she confided in her boyfriend and he convinced her to go to the police a few days later. Police attempted to track him down, but he remained at large.

Lewis abducted and raped a 14-year-old child for three hours

A few months later, in March 1986, Lewis found another victim to prey on. Fourteen-year-old R.S. was walking home from her cousin’s house one evening when Lewis grabbed her from behind. He told her he would kill her if she screamed as he dragged her into a heavily wooded area nearby.

Once in the wooded area, Lewis repeatedly hit her as he tore off her clothes. When she tried to scream, he punched her and knocked her to the ground. He then shoved a handkerchief into her mouth to keep her quiet.

He asked her, “when I put my penis in you, you going to like it, ain’t you?” When she told him no, he punched her. He then raped her. While he was raping her, he kept asking her if she was good at remembering faces and told her he was going to kill her because he couldn’t let her go home and tell anyone what happened.

While the child was crying and shivering in the cold winter night, Lewis interrogated and threatened her like this throughout the rape. And that rape took place over three hours. R.S. told police her initial contact with him was around 11:00p.m. and that she didn’t escape him until after 1:00a.m.

Once he was finished, he ordered her to get dressed and to come with him to his car. He held her by the face and told her if she tried to run he would kill her. As they climbed the muddy hill, Lewis slipped and slid down the hill a little.

R.S. seized her opportunity and ran from him. Lewis gave chase, but she managed to make it to her sister’s house and jumped in through the kitchen window. They called the police and gave them a description of Lewis. Police found him a short distance away. R.S. subsequently identified him from a photographic line-up as the man who had abducted and raped her.



Lewis should be denied parole

Paul Lewis is a violent sexual predator. He was previously granted a chance to prove otherwise, and he used that opportunity to violently rape two women, one of whom was a 14-year-old child. Lewis should not be given another opportunity to re-offend. The Hamilton County Prosecutors Office strongly opposes early release.

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