Alexander Brothers Witness Stated Hamptons Partygoers Watched an Assault

Two Alexander brothers had intercourse with a protesting lady within the yard of a Hamptons rental as different partygoers joined in or watched, in response to testimony within the third week of the siblings’ Manhattan intercourse trafficking trial.

“She was again and again and over asking them to cease,” a witness advised the jury of an unnamed lady she described as intoxicated and “screaming” for assist in a sizzling tub.

It was Saturday night time on Memorial Day weekend in 2009. Tal Alexander and “one of many twins” — the witness could not say if it was Alon or Oren Alexander — have been amongst these sexually assaulting the girl, in response to the testimony.

“It appeared no person was taking motion,” stated the witness, Avishan Bodjnoud, an data administration govt on the United Nations.

Bodjnoud stated she requested the folks round her to do one thing, however nobody would. Within the midst of a celebration, “there have been no allies there to assist,” Bodjnoud stated.

She felt too fearful and too alone in her outrage to contact the police, Bodjnoud advised the jury.

As an alternative, she fled the celebration in a taxi, however not earlier than scrawling “Rapists” and “That you must apologize” in eyeliner on the entrance door and wall of the Southampton rental, Bodjnoud testified.

Pictures of the graffiti, recovered from Tal Alexander’s exhausting drive, have been proven in courtroom. “I hoped that sometime this could possibly be used as proof,” Bodjnoud stated, seeing the pictures and tearing up on the witness stand.

The disturbing testimony capped the third week of the trial of former luxurious actual property brokers Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother, Alon.

Thus far — roughly midway by means of the federal trial — 9 accusers have taken the stand. In typically tearful testimony, they’ve described being sexually assaulted behind closed doorways by a number of of the brothers, together with on a cruise ship, at two Hamptons leases, and at an Aspen ski resort.

The new tub incident stands out as the one alleged assault to happen in public view, with a pool celebration in full swing. It’s not clear whether or not prosecutors will name the girl herself to the stand or whether or not she was ever recognized.

Attorneys for the brothers say that any intercourse was consensual and never trafficking. Of their cross-examinations of witnesses, the attorneys have repeatedly identified that not one of the girls known as the police or took a drug check that would substantiate their claims of being drugged.

Throughout cross-examination, a protection lawyer for Tal Alexander challenged Bodjnoud’s testimony that she remained silent out of worry for the brothers’ energy and affect.

“Have been you conscious that in 2009, Tal Alexander was a 21-year-old copy machine salesman?” requested the lawyer, Milton Williams.

A second witness to the alleged sizzling tub assault testified on Thursday and Friday beneath the pseudonym “Isa Brooks.”

Brooks advised jurors she noticed “a woman, I consider, in a inexperienced bikini with a bunch of fellows on high of her.”

She stated she heard one other lady — who, like her, was indoors looking into the yard — cry out, “I work for the UN and I do know what you are doing!”

Oren Alexander, who was exterior, slammed the door in that lady’s face, Brooks testified.

Brooks was known as to testify to her personal alleged assault, which she stated occurred earlier within the day on that very same Saturday. She was days away from her seventeenth birthday.

She described struggling and falling out and in of consciousness as Tal Alexander and Alon Alexander, whom she described because the “quieter twin,” joined with two different males in violently assaulting her on a mattress.

The 4 males have been saying “degrading phrases” through the assault, Brooks advised the jury.

“I used to be questioning why they hated me,” she recalled considering.

On cross-examination, Brooks was questioned by the protection about pictures exhibiting her celebrating her seventeenth birthday with faculty friends days after the incident, and was requested why, days after that, she and a girlfriend stayed in a single day at one other Hamptons house the place Tal Alexander was additionally current.

“I used to be scared to rock the boat,” she responded of her reluctance to talk out or name the authorities. “I used to be scared that I might get in bother.”

The brothers withstand life in jail if convicted of a high rely of intercourse trafficking conspiracy.