Children Raped By Convicted Sex Offender Who Broke Into Homes: Prosecutor

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A 42-year-old Washington, D.C., man has been indicted by grand juries in Prince George's County and the District of Columbia for two separate home invasion sexual assaults of children that happened in the fall of 2011.

On Oct. 11, Owens was indicted by a grand jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old child in a home invasion attack that occurred Sept. 26, 2011. On July 27, he was indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old child in a home invasion attack that occurred on Oct. 29, 2011.

Owens was indicted on multiple felony charges for both attacks. In Prince George’s County, he was charged with first-degree rape, second-degree assault, second-degree sex offense, third-degree sex offense, fourth-degree sex offense and first-degree burglary. In the District of Columbia, he was charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances and three counts of first-degree child sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances.

Analysis of DNA evidence linked Owens to both attacks.

The charges in the Prince George’s County indictment carry a statutory maximum sentence of life with a mandatory minimum of 25 years and lifetime sex offender registration. The charges in the D.C. indictment carry a statutory maximum sentence of life without possibility of release. If found guilty, Owens would also be required to register as a Class A sex offender for up to the remainder of his lifetime.

In the Prince George’s County case, according to the government’s evidence, on Sept. 26, 2011, in the early morning hours, Owens broke into an Oxon Hill residence and sexually assaulted a 10-year-old child and then took off. The victim woke up a family member and police were called.

According to the government’s evidence in the D.C. case, in the early morning hours of on Oct. 29, 2011, the 11-year-old child was sleeping in her family’s ground floor apartment in the Fort Stanton area of southeast Washington when Owens entered through the victim’s bedroom window. He threatened to kill her if she yelled or screamed. Owens sexually assaulted her and then left back out the window. The victim immediately woke up her mother and reported the assault and her mother called police.

Police believe that the offenses may potentially have been related. Detectives with MPD’s Cold Case Sexual Assault Unit submitted the D.C. evidence for new DNA testing in 2020. DNA ultimately linked the defendant to both offenses. Owens was a stranger to both juvenile victims and their families.

Owens was convicted in 2016 of first-degree rape for a home invasion sexual assault that he committed in Baltimore in 2015 for which he is currently serving a sentence of double life + 25 years in Maryland.