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LT's Alleged Rape Victim: "I Told Him I Was 19"
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Jen Chung
Published May 9, 2010
Modified May 9, 2010
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The Post spoke to the 16-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by former Giants great Lawrence Taylor. The girl, who was convinced into prostitution by alleged pimp Rasheed Davis, said that Davis beat her into going to the Suffern, NY Holiday Inn to meet Taylor, "I told him I wasn't going to the hotel, and he said, 'You're f---ing this up, it's $300... He hit me in the face, so I covered my face," and when she crouched down to the ground, "[he] started kicking and stomping on me."
She said that Davis insisted she "tell [Taylor] my name is Carmen and I'm 19 years old. He told me repeatedly and I had to repeat it back to him." When she got to Taylor's hotel room, the lights were out and Taylor didn't see her injuries, "Lawrence asked me my age and I told him I was 19." Taylor's lawyer has claimed that the 51-year-old didn't have sex or rape anyone, but according to the criminal complaint against Davis, Taylor admitted to cops that he had sex with the girl but didn't realize she was underage.
The girl managed to text her uncle when Davis was driving her back to the Bronx. The uncle told the Daily News the text read, "Tio, help me! help me!" and said his niece told him, "This guy [Davis] is forcing me to do this. He hit me. He abused me." The uncle said that Davis allegedly found the girl after she ran away from home and was waiting at a Bronx bus stop. "She just wanted to get out of the situation She said she's not the type of person to be doing this... It's heartbreaking."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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