More details emerge each day as the men accused of gang-raping Jane Doe at that Richmond homecoming dance last year stand trial in a preliminary hearing in Contra Costa County. According to the testimony of one of two nurses who first examined the victim that night in October, 2009, the young woman blacked out after drinking brandy with a classmate and four men outside the dance, got dizzy, and fell down. She didn't come to until she was in the hospital with a tube down her throat. She was complaining of hurting all over, and according to Anamaree Rea, nurse and sexual assault response team member at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, the victim was begging not to go back to "that school" -- possibly because she was still drunk and remembering being bored at the dance.
Police found four empty cans of Four Loko at the scene of the crime, as well as an empty 750-ml bottle of E&J brandy. The victim says that no one forced her to drink or consume drugs, but Rea testified that she remembered "someone holding the bottle up so she couldn't stop taking a drink from it."
The victim was allegedly raped on a picnic table in a darkened courtyard outside Richmond High School. According to Rea's testimony, she had head trauma so severe it left an imprint in the shape of her ear on her head. Also, per the Chron:
The victim's face was so swollen, it looked like a moon and she could barely open her mouth, Rea testified. The abrasions on her back were so distinctive, they showed movement in two directions. The teen even had a laceration inside of her ear.
Defense attorneys for the seven defendants say that the sex was consensual and that the victims wounds were self-inflicted. Uh, you guys really think that's going to fly?