An Uber driver admitted to raping a woman who was doubled over vomiting when he picked her up, calling nonconsensual sex a "perk" of the job.
The 26-year-old Miami woman was celebrating Labor Day weekend when she and a friend left a club in Wynwood and were offered a ride home in Sept. 2017.
The driver _ Fredrick Gaston, 51_ had a history of predatory behavior, despite being hired by the ride hailing company.
On the evening of the attack, the woman's friend helped her get into the car's passenger seat, while he sat in the back.
Gaston dropped the friend off first, while the woman got sick again in the car. She faded in an out of consciousness as she was driven home, the Miami New Times reported.
Once alone with the woman, Gaston penetrated her with his fingers, according to police. He then parked the car and raped her.
It took police until December 2017 to locate the suspect _ who admitted to having sex with the woman, according to the report.
Gaston said he remembered the woman being "really messed up" and "completely out of it," according to Special Victims Detective Michelle Farinas' deposition, obtained by the Miami New Times.
He also admitted to raping her.
The woman told a neighbor what had happened and asked him to call police.
North Miami Police Officer Anthony Murphy said he remembered the victim repeating: "I've been raped," he said in a deposition.
"She was in distress. She was crying. She was breathing heavily. She couldn't catch her breath," Murphy told public defender Brian McCormack, according to the report.
The victim later told detectives that she was too intoxicated to stop her attacker, and feared he would harm her if she protested.
Surveillance footage from outside El Patio, the club the pair of friends partied at, shows that Gaston had lingered there.
Additional footage shows Gaston trolling for passengers outside of nearby bars.
Gaston was arrested and his been in jail ever since on a charge of sexual battery on a physically incapacitated victim, a felony.
His criminal case will go to trial on Oct. 29.
