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https://www.savannahnow.com/gcdn/authoring/2017/06/06/NSMN/ghows-GA-bb9b073d-543a-45e7-b5cb-8b9e6c7dc2e0-d839b6ff.jpeg?width=545&height=307&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
A Savannah teenager on Tuesday told a jury how she successfully fought off a would-be rapist who attacked her on her way to school in 2015.
"I was thinking, trying to get away and get some help," the witness, 13 at the time, told a Chatham County Superior Court jury. "I was scared that I was about to be raped or something."
The witness was one of three victims in what Assistant District Attorney Lindretta Kramer said were three similar sexual assault cases over a three-year period involving one man, Theron Morrell Hendrix, who "violently attacked all three women in this
community."
Hendrix, 24, is on trial as a serial rapist in kidnapping and sex offenses between 2014 and 2016 involving two teenage females and a mother of two on Savannah's westside.
He has pleaded not guilty.
Testimony resumes Wednesday before Judge Louisa Abbot and the jury. Officials anticipate the trial lasting the entire week.
Chief Assistant Public Defender Bill Lewis told jurors the case was one of "a rush to judgment. … corners were cut."
"I know there are things that are wrong with this case. That's why we're here."
Hendrix is charged with:
The Aug. 25, 2014, rape, sexual assault and kidnapping of a woman, now 27, who was attacked at the Bowles C. Ford Park in Cloverdale, where she was walking for exercise.
The March 2, 2015, kidnapping, criminal attempt to commit rape of a 13-year-old at an abandoned property at 709 W. 42nd St.
The Feb. 16, 2016, kidnapping, rape and aggravated sodomy on a 16-year-old high school student on Clinch Street.
https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/crime/2017/06/06/teen-victim-tells-jurors-she-fought-would-be-rapist-savannah-attack/13879327007/
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