BY CATHY LOCKE
What is the status of
ex-officer Gary Dale Baker’s trial?
– David, Antelope
Gary Dale Baker, a former
Sacramento police officer, is accused of raping a woman in her 70s whose speech
was impaired due to a stroke.
According to Sacramento
Superior Court online records, he is scheduled for trial on Monday.
Police and prosecutors have
charged that Baker raped the woman twice in her apartment, in November 2010 and
September 2012. According to stories in The Sacramento Bee, authorities said
Baker was questioned, arrested and fired in December 2012 after the woman’s son
mounted a game-hunting camera over her apartment door and turned over to police
a video purportedly showing an assailant entering her apartment to attack her.
The woman suffered a stroke in
2009 that left her with a condition called speech aphasia, which severely
inhibits her ability to communicate through written or spoken words.
A detective testified during
the preliminary hearing that Baker told investigators that he had sex with the
woman, but he insisted it was consensual.