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| Student raped/tortured for 19 hours | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 11 2008, 05:58 AM (680 Views) | |
| iAn | Jun 11 2008, 05:58 AM Post #1 |
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Rape Victim Recounts 19 Hours of Terror By JOHN ELIGON Published: June 7, 2008 She entered the courtroom on Friday afternoon wearing a tan dress, red flats and thick-framed glasses. She was petite — about five feet tall and weighing 130 pounds — with brown hair hanging halfway down her neck. But her conventional appearance belied the horrific experience she had lived through. Just over a year ago, the woman, now 24, endured what prosecutors called a torturous 19 hours. A man raped and sodomized her repeatedly after forcing his way into her apartment. He doused her with bleach and boiling water, forced pain medication down her throat and slit her eyelids with a butcher knife. With remarkable poise, the woman vividly detailed aspects of the attack for the first time publicly, testifying on Friday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan at the trial of Robert A. Williams, the man accused of torturing her. But Mr. Williams, 31, who is six feet tall and weighs more than 160 pounds, was not there to face his accuser. He refused to leave his jail cell to go to court on Friday morning, Justice Carol Berkman said in court. So the judge ordered the proceedings to go on without him. Mr. Williams had acted up during previous hearings, and Justice Berkman had told him she would not force him to be there. He faces 71 criminal counts, including attempted murder, rape and assault. The woman, who grew up in a small Connecticut town, spoke firmly from the witness stand, telling of her pain and fear during the attack. Although she appeared to breathe deeply at times, she did not shed a tear during the hour spent responding to questions from the prosecutor, Ann P. Prunty. All members of the jury, meanwhile, fixed their eyes upon her. Many covered parts of their faces with their hands as she testified. The woman recounted the day of the attack, Friday, April 13, 2007. She was just a month away from graduating from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism. She testified that she was at the journalism school on 116th Street and Broadway working on her résumé for a job fair the following day. About 9:30 p.m., she said, she went home the way she always did: taking the No. 1 train to the 137th Street station and then walking toward her Hamilton Heights apartment building. Everything was normal, she said, until her building elevator door opened. She said she saw a “man standing in the elevator who had a small rolling suitcase. I said, ‘Are you going up or down?’ He didn’t answer, so I got in.” She said she pressed the button for the fifth floor and he pressed the button for No. 6. The two rode up the elevator side by side in silence. She became suspicious when he got out on the fifth floor behind her, she said. “I stepped out into the hallway and started going toward my apartment, and I heard that he stepped off, too,” she said. “And I heard the wheels of the suitcase, so I went faster.” He started calling out for a Mrs. Evans, she said, and she chose not to respond until she was in her apartment. She turned to close her door and saw him standing just outside. “There’s no Mrs. Evans here,” she recalled telling him as he stood just feet away. “He said, ‘Do you have a phone book,’ ” she said. “I said, ‘No.’ I started to close the door all the way. I got about a couple inches from close and he pushed it open, pushed me back against the wall. “I screamed, ‘Help me! Help me!’ ” she continued. “He told me to shut up and covered my mouth.” The attacker dragged her over to the bed of her small studio apartment, she said, while fastening a chokehold around her neck. He slammed her head into the floor near the foot of her bed. “That’s when I nearly blacked out,” she said. “My vision went sort of starry, and then I went limp and then I came back.” He threw her onto the bed, she said, and made her take off her clothes. And then he began to rape her, she said. “I thought he was going to kill me,” she said. “I thought I was going to die. I just wanted to survive, so I did what he told me.” She added, “I was crying, screaming, begging him not to hurt me.” She said he asked her to turn her television to a pornographic channel. She told him she did not have one. She said she believed an infomercial was playing while he made her perform oral sex. |
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| ~X~ | Jun 11 2008, 08:38 AM Post #2 |
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There are some sick as people in this world. Sad story but good thing she made it out. |
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| Jiro | Jun 11 2008, 10:51 AM Post #3 |
It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!
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The man must die for shit like this. |
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| Iansnake | Jun 11 2008, 10:55 AM Post #4 |
should be doing something else right about now.
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He'll get torn to shreds when he goes to prison. |
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| Tamashi_7 | Jun 11 2008, 10:56 AM Post #5 |
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I agree with Jiro. Sick pieces of shit who commit these kinda crimes deserve to be killed without remorse or hesitation. Humans can be so disgusting... Edited by Tamashi_7, Jun 11 2008, 10:56 AM.
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| God Told Me to Skin You Alive | Jun 11 2008, 11:00 AM Post #6 |
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I'm glad to hear how the woman handled herself in court, she must be really strong. Hopefully she can get through the rest of her life OK even after this has happened. It's amazing to me that rape still occurs in this day and age. Absolutely disgusting. |
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| zaiko | Jun 11 2008, 11:01 AM Post #7 |
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That's.....pretty sick. |
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| kisskissbangbang | Jun 11 2008, 01:25 PM Post #8 |
Fetish for you.
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He should die... without question. If that was someone i knew i'd cut the perpetrators dick off. |
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| RossSP | Jun 11 2008, 04:47 PM Post #9 |
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Ya see, we need more people like this woman, who are willing to retell a horrifying event to make sure the evil bastards responsible get the punishment they deserve. Too many criminals get off with things like this becase people won't speak against them. Sure enough, thinking about it may be too traumatising, I'm not going to suggest forcing them to testify, just that people should take a leaf out of this woman's book. |
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| The Departed | Jun 11 2008, 04:59 PM Post #10 |
^^Give back my watch dammit!
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Dear God, for something this horrible, I say an eye for an eye and he'll still deserve worse. I mean fuck, there are some sick Goddamn people in news today, but this is one of the bad ones, I mean really really fucking bad. |
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| Solid Snake8 | Jun 11 2008, 05:39 PM Post #11 |
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This guy honestly deserves to die, in my opinion. I cannot stand sick bastards like this... |
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| r0b | Jun 11 2008, 05:41 PM Post #12 |
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that is awful, men who do that to women are such faggots |
   
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| black king | Jun 11 2008, 06:56 PM Post #13 |
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That's just plain wrong and sick. He souds sadistic for where i'm standing, but that's just my two cents. Did he pick her at random? |
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| squallman1 | Jun 11 2008, 07:54 PM Post #14 |
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I hate people like that! Sooo sicken to read and see it in newspapers and on TV. Aaron 
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| snaker | Jun 16 2008, 08:58 AM Post #15 |
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It is just a shame that people like that even exist, though it was good the woman told the police, i hope be never leaves jail, so no death penalty, for then the suffering will be short, if he is in jail, he will suffer a lifetime. |
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| -Solid Snake- | Jun 18 2008, 06:05 AM Post #16 |
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I knew this topic was gonna make me sick, but I wish all women had some natural protection so things like this would not happen. This guy should rot in jail and be raped in their for years to see how he likes it. |
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| snaker | Jun 18 2008, 01:47 PM Post #17 |
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What is this f*ing world coming to. If that man ever comes out, he'll be killed, or so i hope. |
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| Metal-Snake | Jun 18 2008, 03:38 PM Post #18 |
Aaaaaah! Grandma put your clothes back on!
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It just goes to show you the levels some people are able to stoop to. Some things in this world are so horrible, disgusting and terrible we cringe at the smalles thought. For me he should die at the hands of the victims family and friends just for making her re-tell the incident. I can't even begin to imagine the experience and truly hope justice prevails. The scary thing this isn't even the worst case scenario. It sickens me, truly.
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| NinjaGirl | Jun 18 2008, 03:42 PM Post #19 |
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I hope he gets life in prison, and no parole. He is a disgusting man and deserves to rot in hell. Here is some information about the death penalty. Just in case anyone was wondering. |
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| Metal-Snake | Jun 18 2008, 03:46 PM Post #20 |
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Aaaaaah! Grandma put your clothes back on!
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Screw death penalty take him into an alley, chain him to wall, feed him to some wild dogs. |
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