FUGITIVE sex beast Nicholas Rossi who faked his own death and fled to Scotland has been found guilty of a second rape.
Rossi, 38, was charged in September 2020 with a sex attack on a 21-year-old woman in Orem, Utah.
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But he jumped bail and resurfaced in Glasgow and was detained by detectives.
He was extradited back to the States last year to face the charge.
Rossi had denied the charge but was found guilty by a jury after a week long trial.
He’s due to be sentenced next month.
At Provo District Courthouse, Utah, prosecutor McKay Lewis had previously said Rossi and the woman met on MySpace in the late summer of 2008 and began dating soon thereafter.
They had a consensual sexual relationship but ended up breaking up in early September, partially due to a financial dispute.
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On September 13, 2008, Rossi told the woman he had money he owed her and she needed to come over to get it back.
When she arrived, prosecutors say he started acting sexually suggestive toward her.
She tried leaving, but he prevented her, pushed her down and raped her, Lewis said.
The following day, the woman went to the hospital to get a rape kit and had a sexual assault examination done.
She did an interview with an Orem police officer and an investigation began.
Shortly afterwards, Rossi filed his own report, claiming the woman was the one assaulting him throughout their relationship, but that report was later dismissed.
The woman’s claims against Rossi were later dropped by police who claimed the woman had gone to dinner with Rossi after the rape, which the arresting sergeant thought “isn’t how a real rape victim would act. So, she closed the case,” Lewis said in opening arguments.
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Lewis said the woman denied that she went to dinner with Rossi, but the case was still closed for 10 years.
In 2018, after a new initiative started analysing a backlog of Utah rape kits that hadn’t been tested, the woman’s kit was tested and the DNA was linked to Rossi.
A new investigation began, and Rossi was located in a Scottish hospital while receiving care for COVID-19.
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He was extradited to Utah for the rape charge but denied the allegations.
Rossi’s defence claimed in court that money was the cause of the entire situation between the victim and Rossi.
Rossi, was previously convicted of another 2008 rape in Salt Lake County last month.
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