Apr 3, 2008 2:42 pm US/Eastern
Alleged Child Rape Victim Interview Shown In Court
Accused Rapist Ordered Back To Prison
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WBZ) ―
Prosecutors showed videotaped testimony Thursday from a 6-year-old boy who was allegedly raped by convicted sex offender Corey Saunders at the New Bedford Free Public Library.
The boy matter-of-factly described the alleged attack on Jan. 30 in an interview with a child welfare official, saying he felt like he was being attacked by a "T-Rex and an alligator."
The child's videotaped statement was played Thursday at a probation violation hearing for Corey Saunders, 26, who is accused of raping the boy while the child's mother worked on a computer less than 10 feet away.
At the time, Saunders was on probation after serving four years in prison for the attempted rape of a 7-year-old boy.
On the video, the boy spoke calmly and bluntly as he described how Saunders lured him between bookshelves at the library's magazine room and raped him orally.
"He said, 'Can I touch you?' and I said, 'No,' and he went right in and touched me, and he was touching my privates," the boy said in response to questions from a child welfare official.
The boy said Saunders first approached him as he sat at a table reading books in the library's magazine room. He said he and Saunders eventually went down an aisle in between bookshelves, where he said Saunders raped him.
Afterward, the boy said he pulled up his pants, buckled his belt "and then I ran."
Prosecutors have asked Judge Robert Kane to find that Saunders violated his probation, both by committing a new crime and by violating a condition that prohibited him from having unsupervised contact with children. Kane could sentence Saunders to up to five years in prison on the probation violation charge.
Saunders faces a separate trial on the rape charges. He is a Level 3 sex offender, a designation given to those believed most likely to re-offend.
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