PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Superior Court jury has found Christopher Swiridowsky guilty of the 2007 rape of a Providence woman, Atty. Gen. Peter F. Kilmartin announced Tuesday.
Swiridowsky, 34, was found guilty Friday of three counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of assault with intent to commit first-degree sexual assault in the Oct. 28, 2007, rape of a woman who was then 26. The verdict came after a five-day trial, during which the prosecution proved that Swiridowsky raped the woman at gunpoint, then pushed her out of the truck, naked.
A DNA profile was obtained from the rape kit, but no match was found until two years later, after a hit-and-run crash on Oct. 25, 2009, in which the suspect abandoned the vehicle with one of the victims still lodged in the windshield.
His DNA sample was taken after he was convicted of the hit-and-run charges, and that sample matched the rape sample.
Swiridowsky is being held without bail pending a Sept. 27 sentencing.