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>>>Trial starts for man accused of sex torture of student
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>>An ex-convict went on trial Thursday on charges of raping, torturing
>>and burning a Columbia University graduate student in a 19-hour attack
>>during which her eyelids were slit and she was forced to ingest a
>>massive dose of painkillers that caused liver failure.
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>>Robert Williams, 31, sat with chained arms and legs, his head lowered,
>>as the prosecutor delivered an opening statement that left several
>>people in the courtroom weeping.
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>>Williams violated the 23-year-old woman "in every way imaginable and
>>in some ways unimaginable," Assistant District Attorney Ann Prunty
>>told the jury, turning the victim's small one-bedroom apartment into
>>"his torture chamber." Prunty said Williams stopped the torture only
>>after the victim -- who at one point tried to kill herself to escape
>>the ordeal -- blacked out from hours of pain caused by knife wounds,
>>boiling water, battering and sexual assaults.
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>>"Then he could no longer feel power over another human being," Prunty
>>said.
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>>Williams is charged with kidnapping, arson, burglary and sexual
>>assault in the attack on the woman on April 13, 2007. He faces life in
>>prison if convicted. The defendant's lawyer, Arnold Levine, tried but
>>failed to have Williams declared mentally unfit for trial. Levine did
>>not make an opening statement.
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>>The victim, a Columbia University journalism graduate student, found
>>Williams in her building's elevator in the Hamilton Heights
>>neighborhood of Upper Manhattan when she came home around 9:30 p.m.,
>>Prunty said. She said he followed her to her fifth-floor apartment and
>>began his rampage.
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>>Williams raped and sodomized the victim and forced her to perform oral
>>sex several times, the prosecutor said, then poured boiling water all
>>over her to try to remove evidence. He also cut her long hair during
>>the assaults because it got in the way, Prunty said.
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>>After one assault, he forced the woman to swallow a fistful of pills
>>from her medicine cabinet and wash them down with four beers, Prunty
>>said.
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>>Doctors later said the woman's liver had failed, probably because of
>>the medicine, and that a liver transplant might be necessary.
>>Fortunately, the transplant was not needed, Prunty said.
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>>Prunty described Williams' attempts to blind the victim, including
>>hurling a pot of bleach in her face and ordering her to gouge out her
>>own eyes with a pair of scissors. She said the woman's eyesight was
>>probably saved from damage by the bleach because she was wearing
>>contact lenses.
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>>During another assault, Prunty said, the victim grabbed the scissors
>>Williams used to cut her hair and tried to stab him in the neck.
>>Williams saw the blow coming and deflected it, Prunty said, but then
>>told her she had "disrespected" him.
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>>To retaliate, he poured boiling water over her and sealed her lips
>>shut with Krazy Glue and duct tape, Prunty said. At another point,
>>Williams wrapped clothes around her face to muffle her screams and
>>began slitting her eyelids with a butcher's knife, the prosecutor
>>said.
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>>Twice, Williams left the apartment briefly to try to withdraw money at
>>ATMs from the woman's account, failing both times, she said.
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>>Toward the end of the assault, Prunty said, Williams ordered the woman
>>for a second time to gouge out her eyes with the scissors.
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>>Instead, the prosecutor said, the woman tried to plunge it into her
>>own neck.
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>>The attempted suicide enraged Williams, she said, and he split open
>>the back of her scalp by hitting her in the head with either a TV set
>>or a turntable. Williams boiled more water, returned and poured it
>>over her, Prunty said.
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>>"The pain was unspeakable," the prosecutor said. "The skin on her
>>chest and thighs began to blister and bubble." The woman screamed,
>>"Just kill me! Just kill me!" the prosecutor said.
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>>After about 19 hours, Prunty said, Williams tied the naked,
>>unconscious woman to a futon with computer cables and set it afire.
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>>The woman awoke and smelled smoke, broke free and made her way to the
>>hallway, where she was rescued.
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>>Prunty said Williams' DNA was found on the victim and her clothing,
>>and her DNA was found on his clothing. ATM security cameras captured
>>him trying to withdraw the money, she said.
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>>During the time she was conscious, Prunty said, the victim studied
>>Williams closely. Prunty said every scar and feature she later
>>described to police matched the appearance of the defendant.
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