A 19-year-old Savage man serving a jail sentence for sex with an underage girl is now charged with sexually assaulting a University of St. Thomas student in what began as a consensual encounter.
The 18-year-old student told police she’d been talking to Noah Daniel Stowell on Snapchat for a few weeks when he reached out around 2 a.m. Nov. 10 and asked if he could come to her dorm room after a fraternity party, according to court documents.
The woman agreed, and the two reportedly began making out shortly after he arrived in her dorm room.
They eventually started having consensual sex, but at some point the woman’s stomach became upset so she asked Stowell to stop, she told police.
Stowell ignored her, even after she began crying and repeatedly asked him to stop, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court charging him with third- and fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Stowell eventually did stop, but he refused to leave the woman’s room until he’d sexually satisfied himself, the complaint said.
After he left, the woman told a friend what had happened and went to Regions Hospital for a sexual assault examination.
Police interviewed the friend, as well as another woman who was inside the residence hall that night and reportedly saw the victim outside her dorm room repeatedly asking Stowell to leave.
Stowell declined to speak with police about the allegations, the complaint said.
JAILED FOR SEX WITH TEEN
In January, Stowell pleaded guilty in a separate sexual misconduct case involving a 14-year-old girl.
In that case, Stowell persuaded the girl to have sex with him in his parents’ basement after taking her out to a movie in November 2017. The girl told police Stowell, who then was 18, knew she was 14 and that she felt uncomfortable during their entire encounter, court documents say.
Stowell was sentenced in April to 75 days in jail and five years of probation for third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
He was told to report to the Scott County Jail on July 8 and is now in custody. No attorney was listed in court records.
The University of St. Thomas said Thursday that it has no record of Stowell ever attending the university.
“When St. Thomas receives a report of sexual assault involving our community, the University promptly responds by providing resources and support to the reporting party and taking measures to investigate and protect the safety of the campus community. St. Thomas cooperates with law enforcement investigations,” the statement read.