Man gets 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting intoxicated women
A Wheaton man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting intoxicated women who were unable to give consent.
Matthew Tumbarello, 21, of the 200 block of West Illinois, was sentenced Monday afternoon by DuPage County Judge Margaret O'Connell.
Tumbarello pleaded guilty on March 22 to two counts of criminal sexual assault - unable to consent.
In July 2020, a woman Tumbarello was dating reported to Wheaton police she had been sexually assaulted. An investigation revealed he had also sexually assaulted another woman, on another occasion, when she was unable to give knowing consent.
"An individual's inability to refuse having sex is not consent," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release. "The fact that Mr. Tumbarello took advantage of two women who were unable to consent is reprehensible."
Tumbarello will have to serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for parole.
He was originally charged with sexual assault, eavesdropping by recording a conversation without consent and videotaping through/under clothes to see the first victim's body or underwear in December 2019. He was charged with sexually assaulting and video recording the second woman, who was naked, in May 2020 in Wheaton. He was also charged with video recording a third woman, who was naked, without her consent, in August 2019 in Bloomingdale.
All charges but the sexual assaults were dropped as part of a plea agreement.