Bail was denied Wednesday for a Lakeview neighborhood man accused of sexually assaulting four women, including an au pair from Finland and an 18-year-old Loyola University student, prosecutors said.
Gabriel Dathey, 34, was ordered held without bail at a hearing before Judge David Navarro at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
Dathey, of the 2900 block of North Pine Grove, has been charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and one of criminal sexual assault with force in four attacks, which happened in 2002, 2012 and 2014, records show.
DNA results from a 2012 assault that resulted in detectives identified Dathey as a suspect and then collecting a DNA sample from him proved key in solving the attacks.
On March 4, 2012, Dathey met a 24-year-old Finnish nanny while she was out celebrating a friend’s birthday at a nightclub in the 1900 block of West Devon Avenue.
The two began drinking but the woman, who felt she was under the influence of something more than alcohol, got up and went to the restroom, prosecutors said.
Dathey followed her there and later told a witness the two had sex in the restroom. The victim later woke up in a strange apartment and recalled having sex with someone, prosecutors said. She contacted the parents who were hosting her, and they urged her to go to a hospital, where samples of DNA were submitted for analysis, according to prosecutors.
While they were investigating the assault, detectives found out from other people who were there than Dathey had been at the club, and they had a DNA sample collected from him, prosecutors said.
In February 2012, the 21-year-old victim was at a nightclub with several friends where Dathey, who didn’t know her, offered to buy her drinks. He came back with two and after drinking them, she felt “under the influence of an unknown substance,” prosecutors said.
The next thing she remembered was being in a car with him and then waking up in a home in the 2000 block of West Melrose Street, with Dathey assaulting her.
She passed out and when she awoke, she began vomiting, called police and then went to a hospital, prosecutors said.
On Sept. 29, 2002, an 18-year-old Loyola University student who lived in a residence hall on the Rogers Park campus was attacked. The woman, who was intoxicated and having difficulty walking, was returning home about 1:15 a.m. after being out at a bar, prosecutors said.
As she struggled to enter the residence hall, Dathey pulled her to a nearby bench and began kissing her. He then dragged her to the ground, got on top of her, and began taking her clothes off and sexually assaulting her, prosecutors said.
After he fled, she made it to her dorm hall, where she vomited and lost consciousness. The next day she told a school staffer and went to a hospital, where an assault kit was completed and police found a condom and a wrapper, which were submitted for DNA.
The fourth assault happened in August 2014 in the 2100 block of West Cortland Street, prosecutors said.
This year, a DNA profile was compared to the sample submitted by Dathey after the March 2012 attack and linked him to the attacks, prosecutors said.
Dathey, who was arrested Monday, is scheduled to appear in court again Jan. 2.
