Court documents accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump and the late
billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of raping a 13-year-old girl
identified as Katie Johnson are often shared by Trump's detractors on social
media.
Though the Johnson cases were dismissed or withdrawn, those claims laid
the groundwork for, and lent perceived credibility to, other entirely
unsourced rumors that the former president had settled myriad other lawsuits
with underage assault victims, pointing to evidence of his alleged
"pedophilic disorder."
The Johnson claims, however, originated due to the aggressive efforts of
a publicist using the false name Al Taylor. In 2016, investigative reporters
tied the Taylor persona to a former "Jerry Springer Show" producer, Norm
Lubow. For this story, Lubow confirmed to Snopes he had acted as Taylor and
played a role in filing and promoting the Johnson claims.
Lubow's involvement does not disprove that Johnson is a real person, but
it does show that those claims were aggressively promoted and aided by
someone who has a professional history of using individuals to create
fictional salacious drama, and that is a fact both he, and lawyers working
for the plaintiff, attempted to downplay or hide.

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Gideon Erhabor, 21, of McKinney, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault in Minnesota.(Collin County)

A former McKinney football player has been charged with raping three female students last year at or near Bethel University in Minnesota, where he was a business student until leaving at year’s end.

Gideon Erhabor, 21, is charged with third-degree sexual conduct in connection with the alleged assaults, which took place in the fall of 2018, Minneapolis’ Star Tribune reported.

Erhabor, who attended McKinney Christian Academy, was arrested Tuesday in Collin County, where he is awaiting extradition to Minnesota. He played running back for Bethel, a private Christian university, in 2017 and 2018.

According to court documents obtained by the newspaper, Erhabor told police that in each incident the sex was consensual.

In one case an 18-year-old woman told police Erhabor had invited her to his dorm room in September 2018 to see a movie and that he forcibly kissed and groped her before raping her.

A second woman, age 19, told police she had been at a house party in October 2018 and exited the home around 2 a.m., feeling disoriented after drinking. She awoke later that morning in a friend’s apartment, she said, feeling confused about the previous night’s events.

Some weeks later, she said, Erhabor entered her room and climbed into her bed. When she declined his requests for sex, she said, Erhabor told her they had had sex at the previous month’s house party.

Erhabor continued to pursue her aggressively after that, the documents said, in spite of her repeated rejections.

In the third case, a 21-year-old student said she had been at a house party in December with several friends and recalled mingling for about a half hour before blacking out. She awoke the next morning groggy and queasy, she said, feeling genital pain.

She told her resident assistant the next day that she had not wanted to have sex with Erhabor.

Both the 19- and 21-year-old filed sexual assault reports with the university. However, a university administrator would not tell the Star Tribune whether the school had disciplined Erhabor at all.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/12/05/former-mckinney-football-player-charged-with-multiple-rapes-in-minnesota/

Another Trumper.

A St. Paul man has been sentenced to 12½ years in prison for raping a woman and attempting to sexually assault a 14-year-old girl after sneaking into their bedrooms on the city’s East Side in 2021.

Dawada Steven Deputie was convicted Wednesday of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, attempted second-degree criminal sexual conduct and three counts of first-degree burglary in connection with five cases filed against him in Ramsey County District Court.

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Dawada Steven Deputie (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

The 34-year-old had reached a plea deal with the prosecution Jan. 9 that included the 150-month prison term and dismissing six other charges. After confinement, Deputie must serve a statutorily required 10 years of conditional release and register as a predatory offender.

According to the charges, Deputie raped the woman May 23, 2021, after they met at a bonfire the night before at a home along Wheelock Parkway west of Jackson Street. After drinking and smoking marijuana with Deputie and others, the woman became “extremely intoxicated” and went to a spare bedroom about 2 a.m. to spend the night. She was awakened three hours later with Deputie raping her.

At Wednesday’s sentencing, Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Dawn Bakst read a victim impact statement written by the woman, who was present in the courtroom. She said the attack has brought about daily depression and compounding anxiety in her life “because this is always looming in the back of my mind.”

“Sometimes I just crawl into my bed and cry,” she said. “I once felt myself to be strong and invincible. Now I often feel small and vulnerable.”

Later cases
The attack was the first of Deputie’s five cases in 2021. According to the criminal complaints, between Sept. 21 and Oct. 4, Deputie entered three apartments in the 1200 block of Hazelwood Street — one of them twice — and one house in the 1800 block of Stillwater Avenue, usually by climbing through windows.

On Sept. 20, about 2 a.m.: Police were called to a home on Stillwater Avenue where a man caught Deputie climbing in through a bathroom window. He confronted him and Deputie fell out the window and fled.

On Sept. 21: Police were called to an apartment on Hazelwood where a woman said she was in her bed just before midnight when she saw a man, later identified as Deputie, standing in her room, illuminating it with the flashlight feature on a cellphone. She seemingly scared him away, checked her house, closed an open window and relocked her front door. About 45 minutes later, he returned and got into bed with her. The two fought and he ran off.

On Sept. 30, about 4 a.m.: Police were called to an apartment on Hazelwood where a woman reported a man, later identified as Deputie, in her apartment. She said several items were stolen.

On Oct. 4: Just before midnight, the same woman reported waking up and finding a man, later identified as Deputie, on the ground in her apartment attempting to sexually assault her 14-year-old granddaughter, who had been sleeping in the bed next to her. He had removed her underwear when the grandmother woke and chased him out of the apartment.

Police learned later that a woman living in a neighboring apartment building told police she was sleeping on the living room couch when a man, later identified as Deputie, broke the living room window, shattering broken glass all over her. She and her mother ran next door for help.

A man in that apartment went out to look for the suspect and found him hiding by the trash collection area between a used bed and a bin. He and a friend chased the man and were able to grab him. Deputie got away from them but was soon caught by police, the complaint states.

When caught, Deputie said, “I’m gonna need a lawyer,” the complaint states.

Apology, then a denial
On Wednesday, Deputie was given a chance to address the court. He apologized to the victims “for any harm done” and to his own 10-year-old daughter for being jailed.

He then told Ramsey County District Judge Kellie Charles that he was innocent of the charges. Earlier in the hearing, Charles denied a motion Deputie’s attorney filed requesting that the plea agreement be withdrawn.

Charles told Deputie she was going to sentence him in accordance with the plea agreement, “which actually is quite generous, considering that all of these cases could have been sentenced consecutively.”

https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/04/st-paul-bedroom-invader-sentenced-for-rape-four-other-cases/