AZ man charged with raping, impregnating disabled woman

Posted at 4:54 PM, July 23, 2020 and last updated 1:38 PM, July 17, 2023

Nathan Sutherland, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

Nathan Sutherland, 36, a caretaker at Hacienda HealthCare, is charged with sexual assault of a vulnerable adult, for allegedly impregnating a 29-year-old Native American woman, who had been intellectually disabled for nearly a decade after a near-drowning accident.

Sutherland will be back in a Maricopa County Superior Court for a pre-trial conference on Nov. 2 at 11:45a ET.

His trial is currently scheduled to begin Nov. 9, 2020. We expect it to last 15 days.