A St. Paul man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for raping a Wisconsin woman at his home in March shortly after they met on a dating app.
Green Isiah Kelly Jr. (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
Ramsey County jurors in August found 39-year-old Green Isiah Kelly Jr. guilty of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, but acquitted him of the more severe first-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.
Kelly was a convicted sex offender at the time of the March 23 rape in St. Paul’s Summit-University neighborhood. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to 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.
“What is beyond the pale is that the defendant was on supervised release for sexual assault when he committed this sexual assault,” Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Cory Tennison told Judge Veena Iyer, who gave Kelly the maximum allowed under state sentencing guidelines.
According to the March 25 criminal complaint:
A 37-year-old woman from Menomonie, Wis., reported to police about 4:15 p.m. March 23 that she had been sexually assaulted less than two hours earlier at a home in the 800 block of Aurora Avenue. She identified the suspect as “Isiah,” who was later identified as Kelly.
She told police she had met Kelly through a dating app about a month earlier, and that they then texted and made FaceTime calls to each other.
Kelly asked if they could get together, and she said she was coming into town on March 23. Around 11:30 a.m., 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 said.
When she and Kelly went into his bedroom, where she thought she was going to trim his beard, Kelly grabbed her by the arm and threw her on the bed. He ripped off her clothes 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 said. He then raped her.
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Kelly stopped when his phone rang and someone knocked on the door, she told police. 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 said. She told him that she had said “no” and yelled at him that what he did was “definitely not OK.”
After his arrest, Kelly underwent a suspect sexual assault examination. He declined to talk to investigators, saying that he wanted a lawyer.
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