targeted<\/a> the victim because prosecutors said her status as an illegal alien made it less likely she would contact authorities, Fox 4 KDFW reported.<\/p>\nFenley entered the woman\u2019s apartment on September 24, 2024, held her at knifepoint and grabbed her neck before assaulting her, according to a Plano Police Department arrest affidavit. He tried to tie her up with tape and continued the assault until she lost consciousness. The victim suffered a broken nose along with facial swelling and bruising.<\/p>\n
She told investigators Fenley had contacted her that morning online for escort services. Plano police arrested Fenley in October 2024 on a charge of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon after tracing cell phone records and surveillance footage.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors presented testimony from half a dozen other victims during the trial. Police said at the time of Fenley\u2019s arrest that he communicated regularly with sex workers through dating apps.<\/p>\n
Fenley had prior arrests for assault. Records show he was a suspect in a separate sexual assault with similarities: The attacker contacted a woman via a dating app, forced entry into her apartment, and held her down during the assault. Fenley\u2019s DNA matched evidence from that case, though the victim declined to cooperate with investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old Allen man received a life sentence this week after his conviction last year for sexually assaulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[76741,76744,76738,76739,76743,76736,29561,76742,160,162,76734,161,76740,4031,76737,76735],"class_list":["post-193547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-man-aggravated-assault","tag-collin-county-sex-crime","tag-detaron-fenley","tag-detaron-fenley-life-sentence","tag-detaron-fenley-serial-predator","tag-fenley-dating-app-assaults","tag-illegal-alien","tag-immigrant-sex-worker-rape-texas","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-knife-assault-2024","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-sexual-assault-conviction","tag-sexual-assault","tag-texas-life-prison-sentence","tag-undocumented-victim-targeted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}