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OGDEN — A Pleasant View man was charged Monday with raping a woman he met on a dating app targeting Latter-day Saints.
Kade Duane Peterson, 22, is charged in 2nd District Court with rape, a first-degree felony.
A woman told police she met Peterson on the Mutual app and after communicating for several days using the app, agreed to go on a date on Nov. 1, according to charging documents.
Mutual is a dating app geared specifically toward members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
But when Peterson picked up the woman, he “seemed to be driving around in circles, which caused her to lose track of where they were. The victim stated that Kade ultimately parked in an area she described as a ‘wooded area’ but was unsure of exactly where they were,” the charges state.
Investigators noted that the woman “suffers from a traumatic brain injury along with weakness on her left side from a prior unrelated incident about two years ago.”
The two then got into the back seat of Peterson’s vehicle where he used his strength to rape her, the charges states.
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Weber County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man accused of raping a woman he met on the Mutual dating app following a three-month investigation.“During this, the victim stated that she was asking Kade what he was doing and telling him, ‘No, this is not consent,’” according to the charges. “The victim stated that she knew she could not fight off Kade because of her weakness on the left side of her body. The victim stated that she knew Kade was strong because he talked about his previous wrestling days while they drove around prior to the incident.”
Police later attempted to question Peterson.
“Kade answered the questions I had about him meeting the victim over the Mutual application and communicating with her. When I asked Kade about meeting up with the victim, he chose to remain silent and refused to answer any more questions,” police noted in the charges.
Peterson was arrested Friday.
