Opinion ID: 2361162
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 13

Heading: Angela [6]

Text: Angela first met Merzbacher when he drove her boyfriend Bryan to meet her on a street corner. After parking at an A & P market, Merzbacher got in the back seat of the car with Angela, grabbed her hair, pulled out a gun and began to rape her. (E. 264-265). After Angela tried to jump out of the car, Merzbacher warned her that if she continued to resist him, he would blow [her] fing head off, and that if she ever told anyone, he would kill her, her sister and Bryan. (E. 265). Still holding the gun, Merzbacher then forced Bryan to rape Angela. (E. 266). During the next eight months, Merzbacher raped Angela approximately thirty times either at the Catholic Community Middle School or at the Rockaway Beach Fire Department. (E. 267). Each time Merzbacher would tell Angela not to tell anyone or he would kill her family. On one occasion, Angela's mother overheard Merzbacher make inappropriate comments to Angela over the telephone. Thereafter, when Angela's mother saw Angela getting into Merzbacher's car, she chased the car through the community of Essex and then called the police. After this incident, Merzbacher threw beer bottles into the swimming pool at Angela's home and continued to threaten Angela, warning her that if she reported him, no matter when it was, how old I was or where I lived, that he would kill me and my family. (E. 269).