Man sexually assaulted elderly unconscious woman on TriMet platform, jury finds

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A 29-year-old man was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious grandmother on a TriMet platform in 2023, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

A jury found Eduardo Guillermo Madrid-Roque guilty of six counts of sexual abuse, two counts of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and two counts of public indecency.

Prosecutors say Madrid-Roque assaulted the woman in June 2023 while she was visiting the area to attend her grandson’s graduation. The woman, 63, had flown into town and taken the MAX line to the Hillsboro Transit Center, where she arrived around 8 p.m.

According to court documents, a poor interaction with her medication left her “entirely incoherent” and led her to sit on the sidewalk to take off her pants and eventually lie down.

“While on the flight, [the woman] had a glass of wine, but due to a recent change in her prescription medication, she had a bad reaction causing her intoxication level to be higher than expected,” the court documents say.

Surveillance footage showed Madrid-Roque getting off a bus at the station, where authorities say he “immediately noticed [the woman] on the ground” and waited for the bus to leave before approaching her.

“For the next 30 minutes, the defendant sexually abused [the woman] at varying intervals in the middle of the transit station,” the court documents say. “The defendant paused his abuse…on three separate occasions when other individuals neared the vicinity.”

He will be sentenced on June 23.