"Two Alexander brothers had sex with a protesting woman in the backyard of a Hamptons rental as other partygoers joined in or watched, according to testimony in the third week of the siblings' Manhattan sex trafficking trial. "She was over and over and over asking them to stop," a witness told the jury of an unnamed woman she described as intoxicated and "screaming" for help in a hot tub."
"Tal Alexander and "one of the twins" - the witness couldn't say if it was Alon or Oren Alexander - were among those sexually assaulting the woman, according to the testimony. "It seemed nobody was taking action," said the witness, Avishan Bodjnoud, an information management executive at the United Nations. Bodjnoud said she asked the people around her to do something, but no one would. In the midst of a party, "there were no allies there to help," Bodjnoud said."
"She felt too fearful and too alone in her outrage to contact the police, Bodjnoud told the jury. Instead, she fled the party in a taxi, but not before scrawling "Rapists" and "You need to apologize" in eyeliner on the front door and wall of the Southampton rental, Bodjnoud testified. Photographs of the graffiti, recovered from Tal Alexander's hard drive, were shown in court."
Nine women have described sexual assaults by Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander during the Manhattan sex trafficking trial. Witness Avishan Bodjnoud described a Memorial Day weekend 2009 Hamptons party where two brothers and others sexually assaulted an intoxicated, protesting woman in a backyard hot tub while partygoers watched or joined. Bodjnoud said the victim repeatedly begged them to stop and that no one intervened. Bodjnoud fled, scrawled 'Rapists' and 'You need to apologize' on a rental door, and later saw photographs of that graffiti recovered from Tal Alexander's hard drive.
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