Sicko has sex with dead woman’s corpse after finding it outside Las Vegas church
Joseph Martinez, 57, says the woman was alive when he had sex with her
A SICK predator is behind bars as cops accuse him of having sex with a dead woman's corpse.
Police in Las Vegas were called to reports of a sexual assault near a church on Sunday afternoon.
When they attended the scene, they arrested Joseph Martinez, 57 - who a witness claimed committed the disgusting act in a flower planter box near a church on West Charleston Boulevard.
Medics said the woman, 35, had been dead for “an extended period".
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They added they believe set in hours before police were called - with a coroner investigator saying she died two to four hours before the twisted attack.
In an arrest report, Martinez claimed he met the woman, who appeared to be homeless and had no ID, at a hospital the night before.
She was alive when he had sex with her, he claimed in his arrest report.
He is being held at Clark County Detention Center without bail.
The Clark County coroner’s office had not yet determined the woman’s cause of death.
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