The trial of Jakaris Taylor for his role in the Dunbar Village gang rape began this week and I’m amazed at his defense. Through his attorney, Taylor claims that not only did he go into the victim’s apartment to persuade the others to leave, how benevolent of him, but that he didn’t actually participate in the gang rape but simulated a sex act on the victim because Tommy Poindexter had guns pointed at him.

However the then 12-year-old who was forced to perform a sex act with his mother testified that Taylor was one who set the incident in motion by saying that Taylor was the one who knocked on the door to get the victim out of the house.

The victim herself testified there was nothing simulated about the rape that was perpetrated on her by the ten people who raped her including Taylor.