A convicted sex offender is jailed and charged with raping a woman at his St. Paul home on Sunday after meeting her on an online dating app.
Green Isiah Kelly Jr., 38, was charged Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court with third-degree criminal sexual conduct and criminal sexual predatory conduct. He was arrested Sunday night and remains at the county jail ahead of a first court appearance on the charges set for Wednesday. A defense attorney is not listed in the court file.
In 2013, Kelly was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for raping a woman who had passed out from alcohol at a party in St. Paul, court records show. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 10 years of conditional release. Most people sent to prison in Minnesota serve two-thirds of their sentence in custody and the remaining on supervised release in the community.
Kelly was given an additional 15 months in prison in 2020 for repeatedly punching a fellow inmate in the face at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault, according to court records. He was put on intensive supervised release in September.
According to Tuesday’s criminal complaint and St. Paul police:
A 37-year-old woman from Menomonie, Wis., reported to police about 4:15 p.m. Sunday that she had been sexually assaulted less than two hours earlier at a home in the 800 block of Aurora Avenue in St. Paul’s Summit-University area. She identified the suspect as “Isiah,” who was later identified as Kelly.
She told police she had met Kelly through a social media dating app about a month earlier, and that they began texting and made Facetime calls to each other.
She said the first time she saw Kelly she realized the photos he had posted on the dating app were not of him. She questioned him about that and he admitted they were not him. She said she told Kelly that she wasn’t interested in dating him, but was willing to be friends. They then talked casually.
On Friday, Kelly asked if they could get together, and she said she was coming into town the next day. Around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, she agreed to cut his hair and beard, and went to his home on Aurora Avenue to meet him. He took her to a local restaurant. While there, he said he wanted to be in a relationship with her, but she told him she wasn’t interested.
When they returned to Kelly’s home, he asked her to come inside to cut his hair and offered to pay her to do so. “(The woman) was suspicious because (Kelly) was bald,” the complaint states, adding that he then said he’d pay her full price of a haircut if she would trim his beard.
When she and Kelly went into his bedroom, where she thought she was going to trim his beard, he said, “Let’s get down to business” and grabbed her arm and began to kiss her on the neck, the complaint states. She told police she pushed him away and told him, “Not that type of business” and repeated that she did not want to be in a relationship with him and did not want to engage in sex.
Kelly then grabbed her by the arm and threw her on the bed. He ripped off her shirt, pants and underwear and pinned his body against hers as she screamed and kicked at him. She told police she repeatedly yelled, “No! I don’t want to have sex with you!” the complaint says. He then raped her.
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Kelly stopped when someone knocked on the door, she told police. When he answered the door in his boxer briefs, she grabbed her torn shirt and pants but could not find her underwear. She tried to leave the room with one pant leg on but Kelly met her at the bedroom door and told her not to leave. She was able to get past him and leave the home.
The woman drove directly to a hospital in Wisconsin. As she drove, Kelly called her multiple times. She recorded their conversations and provided them to police. Kelly apologized for not listening to her and said he let his “hormones speak for [him],” the complaint states. She told him that she had said “no” and yelled at him that what he did was “definitely not okay.”
After his arrest, Kelly underwent a suspect sexual assault examination. In an interview, investigators asked him if he knew the woman and he corrected the pronunciation of her name. He then said he wanted a lawyer.
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