Opinion ID: 2361162
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 19

Heading: Sharon

Text: Merzbacher began pulling up Sharon's uniform and fondling her when she was in the sixth grade. [12] This behavior continued throughout Sharon's three years at the Catholic Community Middle School. When Sharon was in the seventh grade, Merzbacher began to smack her and pull her hair approximately once a week. (E. 67). One evening after school had ended for the summer, Merzbacher drove Sharon and a male student around in his car. Merzbacher forced Sharon to sit on the male student's lap and drink a glass of wine. He then stopped the car at Sherri's Show Bar, and attempted to pull down Sharon's tube top. (E. 68). When Sharon struggled, Merzbacher got in [the glove box] and he pulled a gun out and he put the gun in my face, up to my head, and he told me if I ever did that again or if I ever told anyone what we were out doing or about him touching me, he would blow my ... fucking brains out. (E. 68). During Sharon's final year of middle school, Merzbacher began to approach her in the storage room where the coffee machine was located. [13] He would fondle her in her privates and rape her almost every day. (E. 73-74). Sharon testified that [a]t first I would fight him. I mean, I wanted him to stop. I didn't wantI would try to keep my legs closed real tight, and he would just hit on me and pull my hair and smack me more and threaten to kill me if I didn't let him do what he wanted to do. He just wouldn't stop. (E. 73). Merzbacher would frequently hold a gun in [Sharon's] face and at [her] head. (E. 72-73). Sharon also remembers Merzbacher taking her to a firehouse where he pulled my pants off and then he took his pants off and he started to go inside of me, and I justI started crying so much. (E. 75). Prior to this meeting, Merzbacher threatened Sharon that unless she met him in the firehouse, he would shoot her boyfriend. (E. 76). Merzbacher also threatened Sharon when she returned after graduation to visit her former home room teacher. During this visit, Merzbacher spotted her and he came running out and he grabbed me and I pushed him away and I had tears in my eyes and I told him that I was no longer a student there and that he can't touch me anymore.... He grabbed me by my hair and he threw me up against the lockers, and he told me, `I can do anything I want to you at any time whenever I want,' and then he pushed me away. (E. 78).