PAROLEE RAPES AT LEAST TWO WOMEN SHORTLY AFTER RELEASE FROM PRISON

Alabama man just out of prison rapes two women in 2 days: 'They should have never let this man out'

By Divya Kishore 

MEAWW News
August 22, 2020 

JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA: More terrifying details have come to the light in the case of a suspected serial rapist who was shot and arrested in Alabama in July. Dai Qwane Rickey Burgin-Goodson allegedly sexually assaulted two women in their homes two days apart before being captured by the police. After being arrested on July 23, the 26-year-old accused was slapped with dozen of charges, including two counts of rape stemming from two separate attacks, counts of burglary, home invasion, assault, theft, and probation violation. Burgin-Goodso’s recent arrest came three months after he was released from jail after serving seven years for committing a series of sexual assaults, home invasions, and armed robberies.

One of his latest victims has now come forward to share her nightmare. Speaking with AI.com on Friday, August 21, Kimberly Clayton said that on July 21 at around 4 in the morning when she woke up, she found a stranger laying on top of her and raping her. The 35-year-old woman, also a mother of an 11-year-old girl, was reportedly alone in her bed at the time of the alleged attack since her husband had gotten up to get ready for work while her daughter was sleeping in another room with two friends. “I called for my husband to help me, but I didn’t let the panic set in right way because there were three kids across the hall from me,’' she added.

Clayton also said that the accused was wearing a bandanna to hide his face. She tried to remove the face covering to see his face, but the man restrained her. “I couldn’t hear my husband calling back to me because we have a window unit in our room and I’m kind of hard of hearing. When I didn’t see my husband didn’t come in the room, panic set in and I thought this man done killed everyone in my house. I just started to scream, I mean scream like bloody murder. It was horrible,” Clayton told the portal.

By then, the alleged attacker had fled from the scene and Clayton ran out of the room where she ran into her husband. “I’m in a panic and still half asleep and I’m telling my husband this man was on top of me raping me and he was like, ‘What do you mean?’” the woman said. However, it did not take time for the victim and his husband to find out that the intruder entered their house by removing the window unit in the living room. They soon called 911 and the woman’s husband also went outside in search of the man. “He went around the back of the house and didn’t see him. When he came back and was standing in the yard, it was still dark, he saw a man that he thought at first was our neighbor. When the man got close enough to my husband, he realized it wasn’t the neighbor and he shot at him. We guess he missed because he didn’t show up at a hospital or anything,” Clayton said.

She continued: “The man had a brick in his hand when he was coming back towards my house and I believe in my heart he was coming back to finish me off. If my husband wouldn’t have been here, it would have been worse.”

Two days later, on July 23, Clayton's suspected attacker, later identified by police as Burgin-Goodson, allegedly attacked another woman after breaking into her home in the 600 block of Elm Street SW in an area known as The Junction. Clayton got to know about the second attack via news alert. “My heart dropped, and I was like, ‘This man done did it again’. At that point, I didn’t know but that’s how I felt. Then later it came on the news that this woman had been assaulted in her home,” she said.

When officers arrived at the scene of the second attack, Burgin-Goodson was still inside the house of the victim. He also allegedly pointed a rifle at a deputy and was shot in return. But the accused escaped leaving a blood trail, Jefferson County sheriff’s Sgt. Joni Money said. He was later captured at the Fourth Avenue Supermarket in Bessemer.

According to reports, Burgin-Goodson has a vast criminal history. In September 2013, he was arrested and charged with 23 felony crimes. He pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, three counts of robbery, three counts of sexual abuse, and one count of sodomy. After that, he was awarded 20 years sentence in prison, with five to serve. The rest of the crimes for which he was charged, they were either dismissed, or he was acquitted, court records stated.

Burgin-Goodson was released from prison on May 4, the Alabama Department of Corrections said. Clayton said she was shocked to know his history. “I’m angry at him. I’m angry at the state. I’m angry at the Department of Corrections. I’m angry with his judge. They should have never let this man out,” she said.

The mother added: “The look in his eyes was pure evil. The man was locked up for seven years, got out May 4, and comes in my home on July 21. You cannot rehabilitate a rapist. I’m putting this out there because we don’t know if there were more women before me since he got out. I’m not going to be a silent victim. I am a survivor.”