Accused: Emmanuel Bile, 17, left, allegedly began the assault while Adam Liccardi, right, 18, allegedly stayed behind to comfort the victim before raping her again
She told police she could see ‘figures and shadows,’ skin color, and hear voices after they turned the lights out, began to tear off her clothes, and attacked her on her bed.
‘She told them to stop, but the assault continued,’ the reports read. ‘This only came to an end when she was able to come to enough to form words crying in pain for them to stop.’
Bile was the first one to sexually assault her, she claimed.
‘As the assault one on, she no longer heard his voice,’ the report noted.
Bile allegedly texted her the next day to say he had ‘stopped and left’ and that he ‘shouldn’t have let that happen.’
The attack didn’t end until the victim cried for them to stop, at which point King and Womack fled and Liccardi stayed behind to comfort her as she fell asleep telling her that, ‘she did not deserve this.’
She woke later to ‘severe pain as Liccardi was again sexually assaulting her.’
Criminal complaint’s and probable cause statements in the case were released after a hearing yesterday before Judge John M. Payne Jr. in Eastern Hampshire District Court.
Authorities said the teenagers aren’t students at the university but the victim knew them.
A judge set bail at $10,000 cash or $100,000 surety for each defendant except Bile, who successfully appealed to have his lowered to $3,500, and said they must wear GPS tracking and obey a curfew from, according to authorities.
Judge Mary Hurley said, ‘In all the years on the bench I have never heard such an egregious set of facts.’
The suspects were taken into custody last Friday and all entered not guilty please at an Oct. 22 hearing.
A prosecutor said the four teens, none of who attend the school, texted the victim and said they wanted to come over, but she said no. The suspects showed up anyway and were let into her dorm by someone else.
The young woman was not in her room, but her door was unlocked so the teens went inside and waited until the alleged victim returned home drunk and agreed to spend time with them.
All five were drinking vodka, and the victim smoked marijuana and took multiple shots, authorities said.
The 18-year-old woman was joined by two other female friends, who later left.
Prosecutor Jennifer Suhl said the victim was in and out of consciousness, was crying and used the word ‘no’ during the attacks, MassLive.com reported.
Defense lawyers said in court that there was a text message exchange between the victim and one of the defendants the next day in which she said she wanted $500 or would go to police.
But the prosecutor said that was the victim’s tactic for making the suspected rapists think she wouldn’t report the attack because she was afraid they would do something to her.
The victim reported the rape at 11.30pm on October 14, UMass Amherst police Chief John Horvath said.
There wasn’t any damage to the victim’s dorm room door that would indicate forcible entry, and there didn’t appear to be signs of a struggle in her room, he said.
Since the teens’ arrest, it has come to light that two of them have had previous run-ins with the law, the Berkshire Eagle reported.
Liccardi was charged with a felony count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for allegedly running a man down with his car during an argument in August of 2011.
Two months earlier, Liccardi and his current co-defendant, Bile, were charged with trespassing for allegedly driving a car onto the baseball field and tearing up the turf.
Liccardi, who was the driver, also was charged with wanton destruction of property under $250. Both he and Bile had the cases dismissed.
UMass officials said they would conduct a comprehensive review of security measures on campus.
‘Maintaining a safe learning and living community is of the upmost importance to our campus. We will not tolerate this violent behavior,’ said Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.
‘The victim and her family are receiving support from our campus resources. I know that I speak on behalf of our university community when I say that they are all in our thoughts during this difficult time.’
This was the fourth report of a forcible rape on campus in 2012, compared with five such -reports in 2011 and three in 2010, according to school officials and campus statistics cited by the Boston Herald
The prior cases in 2012 were reported in February, March, and April, according to incident logs on the campus police website.
An alleged rape that ¬occurred in September 2011 was also reported in March. Three of the 2012 reports were listed as closed Monday and one was listed as pending. A UMass Amherst spokesman said Monday night that he had no details about those cases.
According to the university’s newspaper, the Daily Collegian, UMass officials in 2010 admitted to improperly sanctioning a student who allegedly confessed to raping a 2009 UMass graduate in her on-campus residence.
