Mail Tribune News - Medford man faces additional sexual assault, rape charges

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Medford man faces additional sexual assault, rape charges A Medford man in jail in connection with an attack on a motel cleaning woman and another woman walking home was charged Thursday in connection with a third assault. David Sebastian Pennisi, 30, on Thursday received added charges of two counts of first-degree rape and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse. He was being held in the Jackson County jail on $3,010,000 bail. The new charges involve a woman who said she was raped twice between December 1998 and May 1999. Pennisi and the woman were both staying at a mental health foster home, police said. Pennisi is also accused of attacking a cleaning woman in May where he was staying at the City Center Motel. About a week before that incident, police say, he accosted a woman who was walking home shortly after midnight near the intersection of Table Rock and Midway roads. Both women were able to fight him off. Mail Tribune Copyright �  The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA