January 22, 1984: Joseph Gaye is accused of rape at an apartment complex in Playa Del Rey, California.
This one is crazy. In spite of what happened, and in spite of extensive searching, I was able to find only one reference to it. The stub below is of a NewsBank article by Norma Meyer that appeared on Page A1, although there was at least one previous newspaper report, according to said article.
Joseph Gaye was a black dude who had sex with a white prostitute named Shaun Sedivec at the apartment complex where they both lived.
Sedivec was not only a mudsharking prostitute but a porn star, and she had a live-in boyfriend. Such men do exist. This one was named Glenn Hoffstatter.
Gaye was in the bathroom when Hoffstatter turned up with a 17 year old girl. Use your imagination to suss why she would go home with a 36 year old. Obviously attempting to save face (she had long lost her honour), Sedivec accused Gaye of rape. Hoffstatter began battering Gaye with a lead pipe, where he got that from remains to be seen, but Gaye was getting the better of him when the girl retrieved a large knife from the kitchen and stabbed him in the back. Somehow he managed to get out of the apartment taking the lead pipe and knife with him but was intercepted by the police on his way to hospital.
He was arrested and spent five days behind bars, but the case soon collapsed. Sedivec and Hoffstatter were charged with misdemeanors. The girl had acted in good faith so was not charged and had left the country by the time this article was written, according to Detective Larry Rivera.
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