FLINT — The woman Mateen Cleaves is accused of sexually assaulting said she “laid there and just took it because she couldn’t fight him off,” according to testimony in the case today.
Coleen Dowdall testified in Cleaves’ preliminary examination that is what the woman told her last year at a Flint area motel after the alleged incident occurred.
The hearing started Tuesday and is expected to last several days in Flint’s 67th District Court. It will determine if the case proceeds to trial.
Cleaves, 39, of Grand Blanc is accused of sexually assaulting the 24-year-old woman at the motel in September 2015.