The victims ran to a neighbor’s house for help, the man with what’s described in the report as a baseball-sized contusion to his head and the woman bleeding from the assault.
Eric D. Bass, Michon A. Thomas and Kristopher J. Hughes are seen in undated police photos.
The men accused of severely beating a man and repeatedly sexually assaulting his pregnant wife may have meant to target a different home for a robbery, authorities in Wisconsin said.
Three men face sexual assault and armed robbery charges after police said they broke into a Madison home looking for money, found the couple lying in bed and assaulted the woman, who was six months pregnant, after beating her husband. But a criminal complaint shows a woman may have sought to send the men to rob the home of a man she was dating.
The complaint filed Tuesday details a botched robbery plan that may have been intended to target the victims’ neighbor. Authorities said Efemia A. Neumaier told the assailants they’d find at least $1,500 in cash in the home of the man she was seeing, but that the men broke into the wrong home.
Michon A. Thomas, Eric D. Bass and Kristopher J. Hughes all face robbery and sexual assault charges in the in the Feb. 23 home invasion on Madison’s east side.
Neumaier has been charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery after the man she was seeing discovered her Facebook messages to Thomas setting up the attack, the complaint says. Two others accused of helping plan and carry out the attack also have been charged.
The complaint says that while the couple struggled to sleep about 5 a.m. that Sunday morning, the male victim, who is legally blind without his glasses, noticed the bedroom door was open and shouldn’t have been.
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