CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIP, MI – Ryan David Dominish, 17, of Cedar Creek Township has been charged with repeatedly raping and battering his 18-year-old girlfriend over a period of time after growing angry over seeing her dancing with another man at a Halloween party.

Dominish was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct causing personal injury to the victim, a felony punishable by up to life in prison or any term of years.

The attack allegedly happened early Sunday on a two-track in a wooded area near Ryerson and Schow roads in Muskegon County’s Cedar Creek Township.

The alleged victim’s ordeal began after she tried to leave a Halloween party the two had been attending not far from the site where the attack allegedly happened, according to Matt Roberts, senior assistant Muskegon County prosecutor.

Here are the allegations:

Dominish, who had been drinking, had been kicked out of the party earlier for “acting crazy” but came back, Roberts said. As the woman was getting ready to leave the party, Dominish persuaded her to let him into her car and take the wheel, Roberts said.

Dominish drove the two to the two-track where he began beating her up, telling her he was jealous over her dancing with someone else, Roberts said. She tried to exit the car, and Dominish began choking her, getting her onto the ground, the prosecutor said.

She managed to get back in her car and started to drive away, but Dominish punched through a window, shattering it, and pushed himself halfway into the car, Roberts said. The woman crashed into a tree.

Dominish got back into the car and continued beating and choking the woman, talking about killing her, then raped her, Roberts said.

After that Dominish drove the two to his parents’ home around 4 a.m., where he gagged her by pushing a T-shirt in her mouth so she wouldn’t wake his parents, Roberts said. Dominish got a blanket and drove them back to the two-track, where he repeatedly raped the victim, Roberts said.

Dominish then concocted a story that they had been in a car accident to explain the woman’s cuts, bruises, black eye and other injuries and the damage to the car, Roberts said. They called 911.

After paramedics arrived the woman told them Dominish had been beating her, and Michigan State Police troopers arrested him for that, Roberts said. Later, at a local hospital, the woman revealed to a sexual-assault specialist that Dominish had raped her, something she hadn’t felt comfortable telling a male police officer or paramedic, Roberts said.

Dominish admitted to police that he had beaten the woman and held his hand over her mouth at his parents’ house but claimed the sex had been consensual, Roberts said.

At Dominish’s arraignment, Muskegon County 60th District Judge Michael J. Nolan set bond at $250,000 cash or surety and scheduled a preliminary examination for 11 a.m. Nov. 8.