Rape victim asks why me; suspect Timothy West says sorry, then says, 'Mad at me?'
BY Thomas Zambito
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, October 22nd 2010, 4:00 AM
a chilling tape played for jurors Thursday, a brave Queens waitress demanded to know why her rapist chose her.
"You just broke into my house, yo. I've never seen you before .... You try to rob me, then you rape me," the woman said to Timothy West, 26, in the March 20, 2009, phone call.
"Why you did that to me?"
West, who is accused of slipping into her Ozone Park house through a window and raping her twice at knifepoint just hours earlier, seemed confused at her fury.
"I do apologize from the bottom of my heart," he told her.
And then he had the nerve to ask: "You mad at me?... I can't call you no more?"
"What made you want to come in and break into my house? Why out of all the houses, why my house?" she pressed.
"It was just random," he replied.
"Can I come see you?" he asked.
The 21-year-old waitress agreed to meet him that night at a Dunkin' Donuts in Corona.
Instead, cops did.
The extraordinary phone call was played in Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter's courtroom just before West's lawyers began a blistering cross-examination of the waitress.
The defense suggested she willingly had sex with West, who climbed into her house through a kitchen window at 1:30 a.m. on March 20, 2009, while her mother and brother slept upstairs.
The victim said he raped her twice.
"At no time did you scream or run down the stairs and call 911?" asked West's lawyer, Mihea Kim.
"I was too frightened to know what he was going to do next," the woman said.
"Was it because he was your consensual partner and you wanted him to be there with you?" Kim asked.
"I did not want the knife anywhere near me or anywhere near my family," the woman said, wearily. "I just wanted to cooperate with him."
Assistant District Attorney Frank DeGaetano asked her what she feared would happen if she resisted.
"He would have stabbed me," she said.
"Did you want to die?" DeGaetano asked.
"No!" she replied.
At the end of the three-hour early-morning ordeal, the woman gave West her cell phone number, hoping he would contact her so she could tip off the cops.
A few hours later, she said West texted "What's up, girl?" - and she left him a message saying, "Call me back please. I need to talk."
And talk he did.
tzambito@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_...victim_can_we_get_together.html#ixzz135cMstQq
BY Thomas Zambito
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, October 22nd 2010, 4:00 AM
a chilling tape played for jurors Thursday, a brave Queens waitress demanded to know why her rapist chose her.
"You just broke into my house, yo. I've never seen you before .... You try to rob me, then you rape me," the woman said to Timothy West, 26, in the March 20, 2009, phone call.
"Why you did that to me?"
West, who is accused of slipping into her Ozone Park house through a window and raping her twice at knifepoint just hours earlier, seemed confused at her fury.
"I do apologize from the bottom of my heart," he told her.
And then he had the nerve to ask: "You mad at me?... I can't call you no more?"
"What made you want to come in and break into my house? Why out of all the houses, why my house?" she pressed.
"It was just random," he replied.
"Can I come see you?" he asked.
The 21-year-old waitress agreed to meet him that night at a Dunkin' Donuts in Corona.
Instead, cops did.
The extraordinary phone call was played in Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter's courtroom just before West's lawyers began a blistering cross-examination of the waitress.
The defense suggested she willingly had sex with West, who climbed into her house through a kitchen window at 1:30 a.m. on March 20, 2009, while her mother and brother slept upstairs.
The victim said he raped her twice.
"At no time did you scream or run down the stairs and call 911?" asked West's lawyer, Mihea Kim.
"I was too frightened to know what he was going to do next," the woman said.
"Was it because he was your consensual partner and you wanted him to be there with you?" Kim asked.
"I did not want the knife anywhere near me or anywhere near my family," the woman said, wearily. "I just wanted to cooperate with him."
Assistant District Attorney Frank DeGaetano asked her what she feared would happen if she resisted.
"He would have stabbed me," she said.
"Did you want to die?" DeGaetano asked.
"No!" she replied.
At the end of the three-hour early-morning ordeal, the woman gave West her cell phone number, hoping he would contact her so she could tip off the cops.
A few hours later, she said West texted "What's up, girl?" - and she left him a message saying, "Call me back please. I need to talk."
And talk he did.
tzambito@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_...victim_can_we_get_together.html#ixzz135cMstQq
