A young woman told a Philadelphia jury yesterday that after she was raped repeatedly, her attacker went to her kitchen and helped himself to a dish of pesto chicken from the refrigerator.
After returning to the bedroom and eating the chicken, the woman said, accused rapist and home-invader Domenique Thomas Wilson wiped his hands on her naked body and spanked her bottom.
Wilson, 25, then used duct tape to bind her hands and feet behind her back, the woman told the jury on the third day of Wilson's trial in the Common Pleas Court.
"I thought this is how I'm going to die," she said, weeping.
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Wilson, a former student and basketball player at Lock Haven University, in Clinton County, Pa., is facing charges of raping and robbing the University of Pennsylvania student and of robbing her Penn roommate inside their Spruce Street apartment on Dec. 19, 2008.
Wilson, who is 6 feet 7, is also being tried for allegedly robbing and raping a woman and robbing, tying up and assaulting her boyfriend during a home invasion of the woman's Center City apartment on Oct. 22, 2008.
In that attack, the victims testified on Monday, a knife-wielding Wilson forced them into the woman's Clinton Street apartment as they were entering.
In both cases, the victims told the jury that Wilson wore a mask, threatened to kill them if they looked at him and fled with cash and valuables.
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His defense attorney, Michael I. McDermott, told the jury that Wilson did not commit the crimes and that the victims' failed to positively identify his client.
Assistant District Attorneys Peter Lim and Mark Cipolletti, however, said DNA evidence links Wilson to the victims from both crime scenes. In June, Wilson was sentenced to serve 70 to 196 years in state prison after a Clinton County jury convicted him of raping two Lock Haven University women and assaulting a third.
Wilson allegedly forced his way into the Spruce Street apartment when the rape victim's roommate was leaving to run errands, that roommate testified Tuesday. He robbed and threatened that roommate with a knife and gun until the other woman came home.
Before being sexually assaulted for the first time, the rape victim said her attacker forced her to put duct tape over the roommate's mouth and tie her hands behind her back. He also ordered her to tape her own mouth and eyes.
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At gunpoint, he marched the woman out of her roommate's bedroom and around the apartment to collect valuables, she said.
He was a picky thief, rejecting her PlayStation 3 system, laptop computer and her grandmother's bracelet because he believed they were too old, she told the jury.
After the man - reeking of body odor - forced her into her bedroom, the woman said, he attacked her.
"He said, 'You're too pretty to hurt,' " she recalled, fighting back tears. "It was almost malicious," she said of his voice.
"It was then that I knew that something bad was going to happen. I just prayed for the best and that he would not do it to [my roommate] and that he would just do it to me."

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In the middle of a two-hour home invasion in which he was blindfolded and hog-tied as his girlfriend was raped repeatedly, the male victim began to pray, he told a jury yesterday.
"I thought if I prayed out loud, maybe it would soften his heart," the man, 31, said during the first day of the armed-robbery and rape trial of Domenique Thomas Wilson, 25, who is accused of assaulting the couple in October 2008 and of raping a University of Pennsylvania student and tying up her roommate in December of the same year.
Wilson, a 6-foot-7 former basketball player for Lock Haven University, could be sentenced to what amounts to life in prison if convicted.
But he's already been there, done that.
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In June he was sentenced to 70 to 196 years in state prison for the February 2009 assaults on three female Lock Haven students - two he raped repeatedly at knifepoint; the third he physically assaulted.
The male victim in the October 2008 attack - a devout Mormon - told the Common Pleas jury that his praying only made Wilson angrier.
"Bitch, what's he doing? Tell him to shut up," the man said Wilson told the woman.
The man and his former girlfriend, now 27, testified that after being out celebrating his 29th birthday, they were confronted by a tall man with a kitchen knife as they entered her fifth-floor apartment on Clinton Street near 10th in Center City about 11:30 p.m.

A young woman told a Philadelphia jury yesterday that after she was raped repeatedly, her attacker went to her kitchen and helped himself to a dish of pesto chicken from the refrigerator.
After returning to the bedroom and eating the chicken, the woman said, accused rapist and home-invader Domenique Thomas Wilson wiped his hands on her naked body and spanked her bottom.
Wilson, 25, then used duct tape to bind her hands and feet behind her back, the woman told the jury on the third day of Wilson's trial in the Common Pleas Court.
"I thought this is how I'm going to die," she said, weeping.
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Wilson, a former student and basketball player at Lock Haven University, in Clinton County, Pa., is facing charges of raping and robbing the University of Pennsylvania student and of robbing her Penn roommate inside their Spruce Street apartment on Dec. 19, 2008.
Wilson, who is 6 feet 7, is also being tried for allegedly robbing and raping a woman and robbing, tying up and assaulting her boyfriend during a home invasion of the woman's Center City apartment on Oct. 22, 2008.
In that attack, the victims testified on Monday, a knife-wielding Wilson forced them into the woman's Clinton Street apartment as they were entering.
In both cases, the victims told the jury that Wilson wore a mask, threatened to kill them if they looked at him and fled with cash and valuables.
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His defense attorney, Michael I. McDermott, told the jury that Wilson did not commit the crimes and that the victims' failed to positively identify his client.
Assistant District Attorneys Peter Lim and Mark Cipolletti, however, said DNA evidence links Wilson to the victims from both crime scenes. In June, Wilson was sentenced to serve 70 to 196 years in state prison after a Clinton County jury convicted him of raping two Lock Haven University women and assaulting a third.
Wilson allegedly forced his way into the Spruce Street apartment when the rape victim's roommate was leaving to run errands, that roommate testified Tuesday. He robbed and threatened that roommate with a knife and gun until the other woman came home.
Before being sexually assaulted for the first time, the rape victim said her attacker forced her to put duct tape over the roommate's mouth and tie her hands behind her back. He also ordered her to tape her own mouth and eyes.
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At gunpoint, he marched the woman out of her roommate's bedroom and around the apartment to collect valuables, she said.
He was a picky thief, rejecting her PlayStation 3 system, laptop computer and her grandmother's bracelet because he believed they were too old, she told the jury.
After the man - reeking of body odor - forced her into her bedroom, the woman said, he attacked her.
"He said, 'You're too pretty to hurt,' " she recalled, fighting back tears. "It was almost malicious," she said of his voice.
"It was then that I knew that something bad was going to happen. I just prayed for the best and that he would not do it to [my roommate] and that he would just do it to me."

https://archive.ph/hMN4g

https://archive.ph/Ey62N

In the middle of a two-hour home invasion in which he was blindfolded and hog-tied as his girlfriend was raped repeatedly, the male victim began to pray, he told a jury yesterday.
"I thought if I prayed out loud, maybe it would soften his heart," the man, 31, said during the first day of the armed-robbery and rape trial of Domenique Thomas Wilson, 25, who is accused of assaulting the couple in October 2008 and of raping a University of Pennsylvania student and tying up her roommate in December of the same year.
Wilson, a 6-foot-7 former basketball player for Lock Haven University, could be sentenced to what amounts to life in prison if convicted.
But he's already been there, done that.
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In June he was sentenced to 70 to 196 years in state prison for the February 2009 assaults on three female Lock Haven students - two he raped repeatedly at knifepoint; the third he physically assaulted.
The male victim in the October 2008 attack - a devout Mormon - told the Common Pleas jury that his praying only made Wilson angrier.
"Bitch, what's he doing? Tell him to shut up," the man said Wilson told the woman.
The man and his former girlfriend, now 27, testified that after being out celebrating his 29th birthday, they were confronted by a tall man with a kitchen knife as they entered her fifth-floor apartment on Clinton Street near 10th in Center City about 11:30 p.m.