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Accuser’s Mother Testifies Tearfully : Trial: She says her daughter still has nightmares because of alleged rape by Tyson.

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Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday after the mother of the woman who has accused Mike Tyson of rape offered emotional testimony, saying her daughter told her after the incident: “Mother, I’m not (her first name) anymore . . . (her name) is gone and she’s not coming back.”

At the conclusion of the prosecution’s case, Judge Patricia J. Gifford of Marion Superior Court refused to let the jury hear three surprise defense witnesses and let the prosecution play parts of a tape of Tyson’s accuser speaking to a 911 operator.

Gifford also granted a defense motion to throw out a charge of confinement against the former heavyweight champion. Tyson, 25, still is charged with rape and two counts of deviate conduct. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 60 years if convicted on the remaining charges. Tyson contends that the woman consented to sex.

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The court released a partial transcript of the woman’s July 20 call to 911 about the alleged rape:

The woman said: “I came out of the bathroom and this person was in his underwear and he just basically kind of did what he wanted to do and kept saying, ‘Don’t fight me. Don’t fight me.’ And I was saying, ‘No! No! Get off of me, get off of me please!’

“And the person is a lot stronger than I was and he just did what he wanted, and I was saying, ‘Stop, please stop.’ And he just didn’t stop.”

The Rhode Island woman’s mother wept during most of her 30-minute testimony Tuesday morning, saying her 18-year-old daughter still suffers from nightmares after her encounter with Tyson.

The alleged victim had previously testified she had told her mother about the incident by phone when her mother arrived in Indianapolis for the Miss Black America pageant July 20.

Tuesday, the woman’s mother testified that she arrived at the Indianapolis Omni hotel to find her daughter waiting for her in the lobby.

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“She looked terrible,” she said, her voice breaking during questioning by chief prosecutor Greg Garrison.

“She wasn’t the same daughter I’d sent down here. She was changed.”

She said she asked her daughter if she wanted to drop out of the pageant. She said her daughter wanted to continue, but that “it just wasn’t her.”

“In the Sunday (pageant) activities, it just wasn’t her. When I asked her if she wanted to drop out, she said: ‘No, Mom, I’ve gone this far, I want to finish.’ But at this stage, she was just going through the motions.

“We discussed filing charges, but when we . . . were walking to the car at the hotel, she said to me: ‘Mom, I’ve decided to press charges.’ ”

While the woman’s mother testified, Tyson sat impassively, chewing on a pen.

Of her daughter’s nightmares, the woman said: “She sleeps with me now at home a lot. And at college, she calls me from her dorm room at 1 a.m. a lot. She tells me she keeps seeing (Tyson’s) face.”

Finally, the woman’s mother broke into sobs as she finished her testimony by saying: “I just want my daughter back.”

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At that, Garrison abruptly looked at Vincent Fuller, Tyson’s chief attorney, and said: “Your witness.”

Fuller asked only one question: “Do you love your daughter very much?” The woman said she did, and Fuller indicated to Gifford that he had no further questions.

Associated Press contributed to this story.

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