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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."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; mutilation; omg; rape; sexualassault; torture
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There needs to be a death penalty.
1 posted on 06/23/2008 7:33:39 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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> There needs to be a death penalty.

Yes, but that's too good for this guy.

Have somebody do to him what he did to her.

"An eye for an eye" seems about right here.

When -he- screams to be killed, don't. Let him rot somewhere.

2 posted on 06/23/2008 7:37:14 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: reaganaut1

Wow. A quick death seems like too easy of a punishment for this nutjob.


3 posted on 06/23/2008 7:39:15 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: reaganaut1

The Accused.

But not (yet?) convicted.

4 posted on 06/23/2008 7:40:49 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: dayglored

I’d use a woodchipper.


5 posted on 06/23/2008 7:41:10 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: reaganaut1
It never should have gotten to the courtroom .. it should've been killed on the spot.

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

6 posted on 06/23/2008 7:41:10 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Scutter; reaganaut1
> Wow. A quick death seems like too easy of a punishment for this nutjob.

Yep.

This story makes me want to feed him into a lunchmeat slicer, feet first. Maybe one slice every few minutes. Let it last at least as long as what he did to her.

7 posted on 06/23/2008 7:42:48 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: kaehurowing
> I’d use a woodchipper.

Yeah... I was thinking maybe a lunchmeat slicer, but the same idea.

Oh, and he should have bleach and boiling water pouring over him while being sliced (or chipped) up. Just for accuracy.

8 posted on 06/23/2008 7:44:40 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: reaganaut1

Forced myself, but I read it.

There aren’t words for ...

That son of a bitch.


9 posted on 06/23/2008 7:44:52 PM PDT by Birmingham Rain
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The ex-con stared straight ahead

He wasn't an EX-con. He was a convicted criminal who was let go to continue to commit more heinous crimes.

Nothing EX about him.

10 posted on 06/23/2008 7:45:20 PM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: reaganaut1

On Evil
Bethany Stotts, June 23, 2008

Is evil the result of human choice or manufactured by social circumstances? Professor Philip Zimbardo, known for his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, opted for the latter explanation at a recent CATO book forum.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035178/posts


11 posted on 06/23/2008 7:46:40 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: weegee

Good point—he never retired.


12 posted on 06/23/2008 7:49:35 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: reaganaut1

I read about this case the other day. How this woman lived is beyond me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029281/posts


13 posted on 06/23/2008 7:51:38 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: reaganaut1

death aint good enough....


15 posted on 06/23/2008 7:56:41 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Some people are too evil too keep alive. But try telling that to bleeding heart liberals who tell you the death penalty is immoral and inhumane!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

16 posted on 06/23/2008 7:56:41 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Robert Williams also known as William Roberts

Police say Roberts is a career criminal who often frequented homeless shelters in the area.


17 posted on 06/23/2008 8:00:06 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kaehurowing
Where's Vlad when you need him?

Rumours abound that Vlad also ate the flesh, and drank the blood of his enemies, often holding dinner parties next to the freshly impaled. He was very proud of his work, and anyone who showed disdain while looking upon the thousands of putrefying corpses would soon suffer the same fate. Vlad liked to arrange the impaled in circular patterns, the length of the stakes determined by the victim's rank; this way, wealthy, or powerful opponents would plainly see they were not above the law. Impalements were carried out in a variety of ways, During his reign, Vlad Dracula also had people decapitated, had their eyes gouged out, had them skinned alive, boiled, burnt, dismembered, eviscerated, or sometimes just physically disfigured for his own amusement. In one particular incident, Turkish ambassadors who had refused to remove their Phrygian caps in his presence were asked why they insulted him in such a manner. When they replied it was because their hats had to remain on their heads according to custom, he graciously honored their tradition by ordering their hats permanently nailed to their heads, never to be removed again.

18 posted on 06/23/2008 8:03:16 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Gondring
You think if Obama gets to be president, he might pardon people like this.

After all, they are his brothers...

19 posted on 06/23/2008 8:03:29 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: reaganaut1

He’s one of the disadvantaged who’s ancestors came over on a slave ship, now he’s getting even? Poor, poor thing. sarc! And the city planner dreamers want these people moved into our neighborhoods from their crime infested areas?


20 posted on 06/23/2008 8:08:06 PM PDT by tillacum
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