Woman says officer raped her then came to see her in the hospital!
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - March 22, 2010 - A woman who says she was raped by an on-duty Providence police officer testified Monday that the man came into her hospital room grinning and in uniform after the alleged attack in 2007.
The 22-year-old woman said she recalled seeing officer Marcus Huffman in the hours after the alleged rape, but told the jury that she could not remember how long he was there or anything else about the encounter.
"I thought it was him that I was with," she said. "I thought it was him I had got in the car with."
Prosecutors allege that Huffman, who is charged with first-degree sexual assault in Providence Superior Court, raped the woman in the bathroom of an empty police substation after offering her a ride outside a nightclub where she had been turned away for being too drunk.
Prosecutor Maureen Keough asked the woman if she had given any indication that she wanted to have sex with Huffman, and she said, "No." She testified that she identifies herself as a lesbian.