Man charged with rape of semi-conscious woman

WASILLA — After allegedly having sex with a woman passed out at a party, a man was jailed on rape charges Aug. 20.

Gary Eakins, 31, first came to the attention of Alaska State Troopers July 21 at 11:39 a.m., when a woman called to say she’d been raped, according to a sworn statement Trooper Andrew Adams filed in the case against Eakins.

According to Adams, Eakins, another man and the woman he later had sex with, drove to the second man’s house at around 12:03 a.m., July 21, after working a night shift at a Wasilla restaurant.

The second man provided alcohol and marijuana for everyone.

The woman “had approximately six alcoholic drinks and two hits on the bong in about an hour” and wound up vomiting in a sink, troopers report. The two men helped her to the bathroom. Eakins stayed up, the other man went to bed.

That’s when he took off her clothes and had sex with her while she was semi-conscious. A sexual assault exam completed later that day revealed injuries consistent with sex.

Troopers obtained a warrant to monitor phone conversations between Eakins and the woman. In them, Eakins claims he took off her clothes to make her more comfortable.

“I don’t know why I didn’t stop when I should have,” he says. “Your [sic] beautiful and I couldn’t resist.”

Most of his statements quoted in Adams’ statement seem apologetic with a tacit acknowledgment that rape occurred.

“I took advantage of you,” Eakins said, according to Adams. “I didn’t even know I was capable of something like that.”

On the day he was arrested, Eakins talked to Adams. He said that he went to the party and that the woman “got really intoxicated really quick.” He said he helped her to the bathroom and then went to bed.

Eakins was arrested and charged with second-degree sexual assault and jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $50,000 bail and ordered to obtain a third party custodian before he can be released.

As of Thursday afternoon he was still in custody.

Contact Andrew Wellner at 352-2270 or andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com.