ON THE SIDELINES : Victim Testifies at Rape Trial
An Oklahoma City woman testified today that she was raped at least three times in the Oklahoma football dormitory the night of Jan. 21 but said she cannot identify any of the attackers.
The 20-year-old woman took the stand on the first day of testimony in the first-degree rape trial of former Sooners football players Bernard Hall of Detroit, Nigel Clay of Fontana, Calif., and Glen Bell of Muskogee.
The woman repeated much of what she had said during a preliminary hearing in April--that she went to the dormitory with a girlfriend, that she drank alcohol in Clay’s room and that she was initially grabbed by someone as she came out of the bathroom.
The woman said two people tried unsuccessfully to rape her in a darkened room. A third attacker was successful, she said. She said she wasn’t sure if a fourth person was successful, but said attacks by two more people were successful.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
