The accuser in Mateen Cleaves’ sexual assault case told a woman staying at the motel where the alleged incident happened that she had “sex” that night and “laid there and just took it because she couldn’t fight him off.”
Coleen Dowdall gave that account during her second day on the stand in Cleaves’ preliminary examination.
Cleaves, 39, of Grand Blanc is accused of sexually assaulting a 24-year-old woman at the Flint area motel in September 2015. The hearing in Flint’s 67th District Court is expected to last several days and will determine if the case proceeds to trial.