Crime & Safety

Police: Teen Forcibly Sodomized Woman As Friend Guarded Door

Witnesses outside the room heard the victim yelling but were prevented from going to her aid.

A 19-year-old Ballwin man faces a criminal charge after St. Louis County Police said he sexually touched a woman while holding her down Monday in unincorporated St. Louis County in the area of Olive and Lindbergh boulevards.

Kevin O’Shaughnessy, of the 200 block of Spring Oaks Drive in , was charged Wednesday with forcible sodomy - deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion.

said witnesses outside the room heard the victim yelling, β€œStop,” but O’Shaughnessy’s friend stood outside the room’s door and prevented them from going to her aid.

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O’Shaughnessy is being held in the St. Louis County on a $50,000 bond.

There are no co-defendants in the case at this time.

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