A man who recently arrived in DeLand from Mexico was arrested and charged with sexually battering a woman who cannot speak or hear, police said.
Juan Corona-Martinez, 27, was charged with sexual battery with no physical force. According to a DeLand police report, officers were called to Florida Hospital DeLand on Nov. 19 where the 37-year-old woman was taken after she reported to a friend that she had been raped.
The woman told police she and Corona-Martinez were at a home with friends celebrating a birthday. The gathering ran out of wine, Corona-Martinez offered to buy more and invited the woman to come along, investigators said. Once they got the wine, the woman asked that they go to her house and invited two other people to come along. But the couple had an argument and left. The woman stayed alone with Corona-Martinez at her home, police said.
The woman said she asked Corona-Martinez if he was hungry and warmed food on the stove for him. That was when Corona-Martinez started kissing her on the neck. The woman said she told the man no but that he continued and they ended in up her bedroom where Corona-Martinez sexually battered her, police said.
Corona-Martinez told police the woman started hugging him when they were returning from the store after getting the wine and that the woman willingly had sex with him at her home. Corona-Martinez told police the woman was upset because her lesbian lover had left her, investigators said.
DeLand police noted in the report that Corona-Martinez is in the United States illegally and that he was a flight risk if released from jail.