According to her, her great-nephew named Jewell Powell attacked her while she let him stay in her home. New York Daily News reported that she allowed Powell to live on her couch for about a month in 2019 but on June 13, 2019, everything changed. “I was in my bedroom watching TV. I got up to go to the kitchen. He was there naked. He grabbed me,” she told the court. The suspect reportedly dragged the octogenarian to her bedroom and raped her, and her attempts to fight back annoyed Powell who threatened to hurt her if she did not stop resisting him.
81-Year-Old Details How Great-Nephew Raped Her: I’ll Smother You
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She alleged that he threatened to smother her when she resisted
The man was arrested after the elderly woman confided in her grandson and daughter
An 81-year-old woman from Brooklyn, New York, recounted the moment her great-nephew raped her at his Wednesday trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
The unnamed woman got emotional as she recalled how her 36-year-old great-nephew, Jewell Powell, raped her in her home two years ago, the New York Daily News reported. According to the woman, she let Powell live on her couch for about a month in 2019, but things changed on June 13 of that year.
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