Post by Logan on Feb 23, 2016 6:22:28 GMT -6
Jury in Spokane hears 911 call from boy fleeing scene of alleged rape by doctor
A porch light left to burn all night became a safety beacon for a 13-year-old boy escaping the horrors of a serial child rapist who drugged his victims and filmed his exploits, federal prosecutors told a jury deciding the fate of former Spokane Veterans Affairs emergency doctor Craig Morgenstern.
Stripped of his medical license and jailed since October 2014, Morgenstern, 47, faces decades in prison if convicted on a 35-count indictment that alleges he sexually abused and made pornography films with six children and teens.
The jury in Spokane of nine women and six men heard the chilling pleas for help in a recording of a 2:30 a.m. emergency call the frightened boy made on Oct. 18, 2014. His family had befriended Morgenstern, who ingratiated himself as a hip, fun adult with collections of arcade games, action movies, toys, big screen televisions and flashy sports cars, prosecutors told the jurors. He hosted what were supposed to be fun sleepovers.
Instead, he used his role as a doctor to obtain prescription benzodiazepines, sedatives that prosecutors said led the victims to have amnesia.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/22/morgenstern-trial-on-child-sexual-assault-charges-/
A porch light left to burn all night became a safety beacon for a 13-year-old boy escaping the horrors of a serial child rapist who drugged his victims and filmed his exploits, federal prosecutors told a jury deciding the fate of former Spokane Veterans Affairs emergency doctor Craig Morgenstern.
Stripped of his medical license and jailed since October 2014, Morgenstern, 47, faces decades in prison if convicted on a 35-count indictment that alleges he sexually abused and made pornography films with six children and teens.
The jury in Spokane of nine women and six men heard the chilling pleas for help in a recording of a 2:30 a.m. emergency call the frightened boy made on Oct. 18, 2014. His family had befriended Morgenstern, who ingratiated himself as a hip, fun adult with collections of arcade games, action movies, toys, big screen televisions and flashy sports cars, prosecutors told the jurors. He hosted what were supposed to be fun sleepovers.
Instead, he used his role as a doctor to obtain prescription benzodiazepines, sedatives that prosecutors said led the victims to have amnesia.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/22/morgenstern-trial-on-child-sexual-assault-charges-/