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Black Alleged rapist goes to trial
COURTHOUSE - A Philadelphia man who dropped by a party held by seven young women in Whitpain took advantage of two of the women by sexually assaulting them while they were intoxicated, a prosecutor alleged on Monday.
"Like a kid in a candy store, passed out women all for the taking," Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Samantha Cauffman argued to a jury as the trial for accused rapist Aubrey C. Mackie got under way.
"This was supposed to be a girls' night. He walked into a party and it was filled with opportunities. He took advantage of those opportunities and changed the lives of those two girls forever," Cauffman added.
However, defense lawyer David Belmont said Mackie was invited to the party by at least one of the seven college-a
ge women, all of whom worked with Mackie at the same Plymouth restaurant.
"It was consensual sex," Belmont argued to the jury, implying that at least one of the alleged victims had hinted to Mackie that they could "hook up" at the party.
Belmont also urged the all-white jury not to allow the ethnicity of Mackie and the women to interfere with their deliberations.
Mackie is black and the two women who were allegedly assaulted are white.
Mackie, 22, of the 600 block of Rosalie Street, Philadelphia, is charged with two counts each of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and indecent assault.
With the rape charges prosecutors alleged that the victims were unconscious or that Mackie knew or recklessly disregarded that the victims were unaware the sex was occurring.
Testimony revealed that the seven women, all co-workers, agreed to meet at the Rosewood Drive home of one of the girls on July 9, 2005, for a party. No men were to be perm
itted to come to the home, according to testimony.
However, when one woman, not one of the victims, asked the others if Mackie could drop by the home, no one protested, testimony revealed. Mackie arrived at the home shortly after 3 a.m. with a case of beer, according to testimony.
The two alleged victims, ages 19 and 20, testified that after a night of drinking they passed out and that they awoke to find Mackie having sexual contact with them.
Mackie, who remains free on bail, faces decades in prison if convicted of the charges. The trial before Judge Richard J. Hodgson is expected to last three days.
They sure are buddy bird. White women should never ever befriend the ape or the roach.