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Courageous Victim Recounts 19 Hours Of Rape And Torture In Stunning Courtroom Testimony
CityNews ^ | June 10, 2008

Posted on 06/23/2008 7:33:38 PM PDT by reaganaut1

We can't tell you her name but she was able to tell a jury about what happened to her. And her determination to recount some of the most incredible savagery ever heard in a courtroom is testimony to her courage and her desire to see justice done.

The recall of a Columbia University student that unfolded in a New York City hall of justice on Monday was almost too hard to hear. The 24-year-old victim sat in the witness box with her jaw clenched and her mind focused, as she retold the unimaginable ordeal she claims she suffered at the hands of 31-year-old Robert Williams (top left).

The ex-con stared straight ahead as his 24-year-old accuser poured out her story of a 19-hour rape and torture session, a day-long siege so brutal she begged her attacker to kill her.

It happened on April 13, 2007 when Williams allegedly burst into her New York City apartment.

He's accused of forcing her to have oral sex and raping her seven times during that ordeal, but that wasn't the worst of it.

He allegedly scalded her with boiling water from a kettle, forced her to take massive doses of painkillers, used a knife to mutilate her face and slice her eyelids and ordered her to gouge out her own eyes using the same blade.

When she refused, cops say he threw bleach into her face in an attempt to blind her.

"I was burning all over," the witness related in terms so vivid many jury members had to look away. "He threw the rest of the bleach into my face, but I was able to close my eyes in time. I was breathing it in. My lungs were burning."

(Excerpt) Read more at citynews.ca ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; mutilation; omg; rape; sexualassault; torture
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To: topher

A presumed-innocent would need a pardon?


21 posted on 06/23/2008 8:13:42 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: knarf

“We’re not told in the article ... but ... was she .. and by God, that girl is courageous ..., white?”

Who cares what color she is?

What I’d do to this vermin would make an Apache cringe....


22 posted on 06/23/2008 8:13:50 PM PDT by Keith Brown (Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
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To: reaganaut1
What can one say.

Human sexuality is one of the most under rated forces of nature. Wired in the wrong way, as in this horrifying story, it is the root of so much evil in this world.

This person needs to be removed from existence as soon as possible.

23 posted on 06/23/2008 8:15:21 PM PDT by stravinskyrules (Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?)
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To: ibtheman
It makes no difference if she was white, you fall into the same trap as the hate crime racists. Torture of a human being is heinous no matter the color of either party.

To put a finer point on this, if a white man did this to my daughter I would want to destroy him just as much. And there are plenty of white serial killers, etc. Good and Evil are color blind.

24 posted on 06/23/2008 8:19:19 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Libertarianize the GOP

This professor Zimbardo is full of prumes, right up to his brown eyes. Look at the african countries who prey on the weaker countries, look at zimbawee....their gangster in charge blaming the West for his starving citizens, while his wife spends $400.00 per pair of shoes,’cause her feet are so narrow, then they dine on whatever...while their countrymen starve. Can we expect much more from some of our citizens with the same blood? I’m sick of our country cow-towing to this type of “injustice”. For the next few years we’ll be taking care of this evil speciman of human excretemtn with good medical, eye, dental, lodging and meals.


25 posted on 06/23/2008 8:19:36 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: kaehurowing

tree-chain-blowtorch. slowly.


26 posted on 06/23/2008 8:19:54 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: ibtheman
I bet she was a white woman to!

What difference does that make?

27 posted on 06/23/2008 8:20:57 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: stravinskyrules

That is hogwash. Sexuality is a way of reporduction, just like the rest of the animal kingdom What this person did and probably has done is evil, pure and simple for the “fun” of it.


28 posted on 06/23/2008 8:23:10 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: Gondring

If some judge lets this lowlife out, let’s chip in — get him an apartment in the judges neighborhood.


29 posted on 06/23/2008 8:26:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Dodd KNEW it was a good deal. Faked ignorance is not a defense.)
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To: reaganaut1

Quick!

Someone call Sharpton and register some outrage on HIS ass...


30 posted on 06/23/2008 8:30:32 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: reaganaut1
Rather than posting a two week old article that has been posted to FR several times, why not check to see where the case is now? Click here for an update on the closing arguments in the trial that took place today.
31 posted on 06/23/2008 8:32:32 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: Keith Brown
"Who cares what color she is?"

Well Keith, I was never racist before this year. You have no way of knowing if that is a true statement or not, but ..

The Obama campaign and entourage made me more of a racist than not.

I think I perceive trouble in our nation ... it is primarily political, but it will be promoted as racist ... and I take offense at being called something I'm not.

So, should this all shake out the way I think it will ... I'm practicing to be a racist.

And the animal in this article is black.

32 posted on 06/23/2008 8:36:29 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: goldstategop

“He will probably get life in prison.”
How does he not get death?
I cannot imagine a liberal who thinks a quiet sleep to death is too horrible for this man, while the woman he tried to kill in such a horrific manner literally lives with the scars.
Hang him. And if there is a theoretical biological basis for evil, everyone within 2 degrees of kinship gets sterilized, too.


33 posted on 06/23/2008 8:37:09 PM PDT by tbw2 ("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
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To: reaganaut1

Feed him to a pack of hungry and pissed off wolves.


34 posted on 06/23/2008 8:42:25 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: kaehurowing

Very slowly. Very very slowly.


35 posted on 06/23/2008 8:46:09 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: kaehurowing

Feet first?


36 posted on 06/23/2008 8:48:18 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Alouette
The difference is that if a white man did that to a black woman, he'd be charged with a "hate crime," as if the activity itself wasn't enough to determine that he had hate for his fellow human being.

If this man's victim was white, will he be charged with a hate crime? Of course he won't, which shows the insanity of political correctness, and somehow seems to say that a black man doing such things to a white woman isn't as bad as a white man doing the same thing to a black woman (or a black man, for that matter). If he did it to a black woman, he should be charged with a hate crime. If a white man did it to a white woman, he should be charged with a hate crime. All crimes of this type of cruelty and viciousness are either hate crimes, or they aren't. The color of the perp and victim should have nothing to do with it, of that, I agree. All crimes of this nature display a form of hate, and it should be understood automatically, not selectively applied based on the race of the perp and the race of the victim. Hate crimes laws are stupid, because all crimes of this cruel nature involve hate. Selectively applying "hate" to one race while not applying it to another race is just stupid.

37 posted on 06/23/2008 8:51:29 PM PDT by smedley64 (Dems go all-in every 4 years with a 7-2 offsuit marxist, hoping to hit the flop big just one time.)
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To: bobby.223

Chainsaw neuter then death slow.


38 posted on 06/23/2008 9:00:11 PM PDT by Big Horn (Lets drill and get a thrill. More gas in every pot..)
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To: bobby.223

Chainsaw neuter then death slow.


39 posted on 06/23/2008 9:00:42 PM PDT by Big Horn (Lets drill and get a thrill. More gas in every pot..)
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To: reaganaut1
skin that FPOS alive... then set his wretched azz on fire!!!
40 posted on 06/23/2008 9:04:27 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/SHOGGOTH '08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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