Wife-killing Mormon doctor found guilty of sexually assaulting his own grieving daughter on her mother's bed just days after he drowned spouse in the bathtub

A Provo, Utah jury found MacNeill guilty Thursday of assaulting his daughter Alexis Somers in 2007

Somers came forward with revelations about her father in order to protect her siblings who still lived at the MacNeill home after their mother's murder

Somers, 30, filed police report saying she was awakened by her father fondling her and and kissing her hand



MacNeill was found guilty of overmedicating his wife Michele after a face-lift and left her to die in a bathtub in 2007



A Utah jury on Thursday found wife-killing Mormon doctor Martin MacNeill guilty of sexually assaulting his daughter.



It took just two hours for the jury of five women and three men to convict the 58-year-old of fondling his daughter not long after he overmedicated his wife so she'd drown in the bathtub.

MacNeill is still awaiting sentencing for the coldblooded 2007 murder. In addition to that possible sentence, he could now receive 15 years on the sex abuse charge.

The daughter MacNeill assaulted was 30-year-old Alexis Somers, who identified herself to reporters as the victim as the jury first left the courtroom to deliberate.

Murderer and sexual predator: Martin MacNeill enters the courtroom for his trial on forcible sexual abuse Wednesday. he was found guilty on Thursday of sexually assaulting his own daughter in the wake of his wife's murder

Daughter and victim: Alexis Somers testifies against her father in his trial for sexually assaulting her in the days after he over-medicated his wife after her face lift and then let her drown in the bathtub

'At the end of the day and regardless of the outcome, I will have done everything in my power to protect my family,' she told KSTU.



MacNeill says she came forward with revelations her father assaulted her after she fell asleep on her mother's bed while cleaning it out following her death because she feared for her siblings.



Following her mother's death, MacNeill's younger sisters still lived at the family home with their father.



'I was feeling panic, horror, fear that my sisters were not safe,' she told the jury. 'They were at the home of someone who just murdered my mom.'

In September 2007, then-24-year-old Alexis Somers filed a police report claiming that her father had abused her on two occasions in the three months after her mother's death.



According to the charging documents, in May 2007, Alexis was asleep in her parents' bed when she was awakened by her father fondling her and kissing her hand. He was supposed to be sleeping on the couch.

Fractured family: Martin MacNeill, second from right, murdered his wife and the mother of his eight children Loss: Michele MacNeill, right, was found unconscious in a bathtub in 2007. Her husband, left, left her there to die after overmedicating her with prescription painkillers she was given after a face lift he urged her to get

Alexis demanded to know what her father was doing, to which he allegedly replied, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were your mother.'



A similar incident reportedly took place two months later while the family were vacationing in California.



Killed his wife to be with a 'Gyspy': During the murder trial, MacNeill's daughter Sabrina testified that their 'nanny' Gypsy Willis spent every night in the doctor's bedroom after their mother's death

In a recorded phone conversation, MacNeill allegedly told Alexis that he 'was asleep' when he assaulted her.



When confronted with allegations of sex abuse while being questioned by police, MacNeill stated that a person cannot be held accountable for his actions while he's asleep, according to court documents.



MacNeill sat silent and motionless throughout the two-day proceedings.



In December, MacNeill left a suicide note and slit a major leg artery with a disposable razor, court documents show. Utah County jail officials intervened to save his life.



Alexis Somers and her sisters had spent years dogging the authorities to open a murder investigation, and were instrumental in bringing their father to account for their mother's slaying.



The young women claimed that the seemingly respectable doctor and a former bishop in his local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was, in fact, a monster and philandered who led a double life and killed his wife so he could be with his mistress, Gypsy Willis.



It wasn't until MacNeill's release in July 2012 from a federal prison in Texas on charges of fraud that Utah prosecutors moved to file charges of murder and obstruction of justice.



During the trial, MacNeill's daughter Sabrina testified that Willis, who was hired as their nanny, spent every night in the doctor's bedroom after their mother's death.