It was reported on Tuesday, January 15th, by Alaska State Trooper Dispatch, that the Alaska Bureau of Investigation was notified on Sunday of an inmate's death at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.

It was reported that 58-year-old Donald Seaman had died from natural causes while in the medical segregation unit there.

Donald Seaman, was sentenced in 2002 after being convicted of the 2001 First Degree Sexual Assault of a homeless woman in Juneau. Seaman received 30 years in prison with 10 suspended, and five years probation in that case. Seaman was originally charged with two counts of Burglary and a count of kidnapping and a count of assault.

The case stemmed from an incident in April of 2001, when a homeless woman, who was not identified, went with Seaman to an abandoned house on Decker Way to drink with him. Acording to the victim, Seaman kept her hostage in the empty building over the weekend, where he repeatedly sexually assaulted her. It was also reported then that Seaman had also beaten the woman with a baseball bat.

Despite being covered in the victim’s blood, Seaman insisted at the time of his arrest that the sex with the victim was consensual.

Assistant District Attorney at that time, Sue McLean stated that there was no way that anyone would consent to that level of violence. “Over the course of the weekend, he held her hostage while he repeatedly sexually assaulted her,” she said. “There was so much damage to her colon from this assault that it had to be removed. At one point, shortly before this trial was scheduled (Dec. 12), she took a turn for the worse and lapsed into a coma. Thankfully, she is out of that now, but certainly physically, mentally and emotionally she will never be the same.”

The victim showed up at the Glory Hole shelter and soup kitchen after the extended brutal assault, bloody and pleading for help.

Seaman never commented during his sentencing.

In the late 1970s, Seaman was convicted of attempted sodomy in the state of New York and spent several years in prison there. He was released in 1987.

It was confirmed by Kaci Schroeder of the Juneau office of the Department of Corrections that Seaman had been transported recently from the Hudson Correctional Facility in Hudson, Colorado to the segregated medical unit of the Anchorage Correctional Complex for medical reasons.