CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Cleveland sex offender who spent more than 13 years in prison for helping a paraplegic man carry out a sexual assault is now accused of raping a woman while she slept, court records say.

Ray A. Lesure, 54, is charged with rape in a Sunday incident in Cleveland’s Bellaire-Puritas neighborhood, according to court records. Cleveland police officers arrested him just after 8 p.m. Sunday. Details of his arrest were not immediately available.

Lesure requested a preliminary hearing when he appeared Monday in Cleveland Municipal Court. The hearing is scheduled Sept. 19, court records say.

He is being held in the Cuyahoga County Jail on $300,000 bond.

The woman was asleep when Lesure raped her, court records say. She woke up and told him to stop, but he forced his weight down onto her, court records say.

Lesure has been a registered sex offender since 1990 when he was convicted of helping a paraplegic man rape someone they held hostage for four days, according to court records and Plain Dealer archives.

He served as a live-in aid for Archie Hill, a man injured 30 years earlier in a car accident. Lesure dated an 18-year-old woman and lured her to a Cleveland home where Hill raped her.

Lesure pleaded guilty to sexual battery and felonious assault and spent 13 ½ years in prison before he was released in 2004.

He served another two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2007 to failing to notify authorities that he’d changed addresses, which he was required to do as a registered sex offender, court records say.

Hill was sentenced to 20 to 50 years in prison in the case. He was also sentenced to 90 to 225 years in prison in another similar rape case, court records say. His current status was not immediately available Thursday.

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