{"id":314654,"date":"2026-05-14T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:55:09","slug":"man-faces-25-years-to-life-after-sacramento-rape-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314654\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces 25 years to life after Sacramento rape conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/in20the20courts20gavel20chyron20still20grab20frame20placeholder.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"In the courts: Gavel silhouette\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A jury on Tuesday convicted a man of sexually assaulting a foreign college student, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted Kevin Davis of forcible rape, and allegations that he had two prior strike convictions for assault with a firearm, along with aggravating factors including a vulnerable victim and a prior prison term, were also found true, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the victim came to the United States from Europe to attend college on Nov. 2, 2023. She traveled alone while returning from a conference by Greyhound and Amtrak. At 2 a.m., she was dropped off at the Greyhound station on Richards Boulevard so she could go to the Amtrak station on I Street and take a train home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim was unfamiliar with Sacramento and had no working cellphone. She made her way to a gas station and asked a clerk to call her a taxi; however, it never arrived,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sacda.org\/2026\/05\/defendant-convicted-of-sexually-assaulting-foreign-college-student\/\">the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Davis offered the victim a ride to the Amtrak station, and officials said she eventually agreed and got into his car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavis drove the victim to a secluded area by the river, locked her in his car, and threatened that he had had guns and would sexually assault her if she did not willingly comply with his sexual demands,\u201d the District Attorney\u2019s Office\u2019s statement continued. \u201cDavis forced the victim to perform sexual acts with him before raping her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison, according to the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is scheduled for June 26. in Sacramento Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC_0021_PK_20260121_BUSS.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nicole Buss\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jury on Tuesday convicted a man of sexually assaulting a foreign college student, according to the Sacramento&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-314654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}