Love and Hip Hop’s Mendeecees Harris’ child molestation trial began yesterday with shocking testimony from the young woman accusing him of sexually abusing her.
Reports AllHipHop via CliffViewPilot:
VH1′s Love and Hip Hop star Mandeecees Harris’ trial for aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, and child endangerment began yesterday as attorneys on both sides presented their opening statements.
The cliffviewpilot.com reports that Bergen County prosecutors laid out the state’s case against Harris to the jury, claiming that the reality television star manipulated a 15-year-old girl into having sex with him in his home on repeated occasions between 2009-2010.
The prosecution believes Harris coerced the teenager with money, and that the child’s “rough upbringing” made her susceptible to being easily influenced by someone of Harris’s stature.
“An adult like Mendeecees Harris can easily manipulate a child into doing things like performing oral sex – with words, with actions and later, with money,” stated Assistant Prosecutor Demetra Maurice.
Maurice claimed that at that time of the alleged assault, the accuser was living with Harris and his girlfriend, along with her two sons and his child from a previous relationship, in their home in Lodi, New Jersey. The 15 year-old girl was said to often be home alone with Harris and the boys.The prosecution then stated that Harris began showing the accuser pornography, asking for oral sex, and requesting she tell him sexual stories. Eventually, he started offering her money for sexual favors.
It is alleged that he would even tell the boys in the house to “go talk to your sister, she knows what she has to do” when they would ask for money for themselves.
Harris’s attorney, Brian Neary, later addressed the jury and claimed that the accusations against his client were all made up in order for the young accuser to be able to remain in New Jersey.
“She was going to be sent back down south to live with her father,” said Neary. ”Her claims are so implausible, so unbelievable, as to cast doubt on what she says.”Neary went on to say that Harris never asked to have sex with the accuser or offered her money. He told the jury he also believed that the girl had problems that were unrelated to Harris, revealing that on the day she reported the alleged relationship she had defied her mother by going to New York to get a piercing.
Neary had hoped to present photographs as evidence in the trial, but before opening statements got underway Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi ruled that the pictures were not permissible because they would affect the credibility of the accuser in the eyes of the jury and that they were prohibited under the rape shield law.
Another set of pictures will be ruled on later after it is decided whether the accuser’s mother will testify.
Last week prosecutors offered Harris a plea deal that would have resulted in a 5-year prison sentence. He turned down the offer setting up the ongoing trial. He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Harris is also facing drug trafficking charges in an unrelated case in Rochester, New York. Federal prosecutors will pursue that case once the sexual assault trial in New Jersey is complete.
I see said the blind man. And now…
This is EbenGregory.com…telling you a child of molestation has many crosses to bear as an adult. Jesus take the wheel.
Thats crazzz, pimp C
I feel kinda ill for pointing it out, but…..doesn’t it seem weird that she waited to report this heinous issue until he was featured on LOHH? Just sayin…..paper bag money????
All iCan say is Woooooowwwww !!!!!! Mendeecees *a.k.a. “Man-Disease”……. word, if he’s found guilty, then the booty warrior is gonna put his bid in for that booty LOLs !!!!
HIV Awareness month should be every month. Spread that news around, Eben, feeding garbage news without a wake up call, is dead news! People so ignorant, deaf, blind, stupid, reckless and careless. Spread more news on uncurable STD’s, HIV and AIDS! This life ain’t playplay! WAKE THE HECK UP FOLKS!!!! (and im just going to ignore all those “open-minded,all wears for Mendecees, border-line “supporters” – Yes God knows the truth, and he knows dang well a child aint got no reason to make up garbage like that, somebody violated that girl, and I dont doubt he was one of them! We shall see, yes we shall see, and if we dont? GOD sees it all, price will be paid if not here on earth, time will come for all those sick bastards to pay for this) anyone who practices pedophilia and convinces themselves and their victims that its okay, is from the pits of hell! ANd im sticking to that! Hate me if you want, but I cant stand these stories, and dont really have the patience to hear out no grown man thinking he’s 16 side of it! We’ll all see or hear about it though.!
**All ears for Mendecees
Wow! People really take chances on hearing out a sicko’s side. Naw, I will pass, I believe this is all true, I truly believe and agree with Gia30. This man got how many counts against him, how many counts now???? Going on 20 counts? Ya’ll must be the same types getting offended like you in his shoes. SMDH!!!!!!!
Standing from a side that actually have reason to hate deep hatred for pedophilia… Shut the hell up… And can we let the trial unfold… U tryna hang the noose on this nigga with no proof… Just accusation… And if he did do it…. Well hang that nigga from a tree!
Well Well Welllll lls wonder if Mendeecees will even be at the reunion for #LHHNY smh i wonder how yandy is feelin
Lots of typos, but I’m pretty livid..apologies.
Please Jesus take the wheel! Another dumb man,SMH! What would possess a man (money,power,ego, wickedness) to have, SEDUCE & HAVE SEX WITH A MINOR and then PIMP HER OUT??? Des he not have sisters, nieces, aunts and WOMEN in his family???? Would you want someone to do that to your family MENDECEES??????? I am praying that the JUDGE does their job and gives the MAXIMUM to this piece of TRASH! I hope to never hear him still on television, VH1, you are done, if you keep him on, Yandy do, axe that story out, its already bad enough, ratchet enough, without them two in it! Promoting Prostitution!? Some of y’all don’t see anything wrong with ‘pimpin”… it is an offense, it is a crime, and it is detestable, no matter how ANYONE tries to pretty it up, its nasty, its wrong, selling women for profit – nothin new under the sun dont make this right!…Maybe the ones condoning this like this loser, would like to see your mama, grammy, aunties and daughters, cousins, nieces, wives, selling their themselves out too? Saddest part for me would be to hear the people out there who will actually blame the girl, or say its party her fault. Minors these days may be smart, but it takes that grown Man to follow through with a CHILD’s advances to make this happen. Brains of younger people, are not fully developed let alone their conscience! Lock this fool up ASAP!
At least let the man be convicted before condemning him. When he’s convicted, then you can take your ‘pound of flesh’.
Slow down your Honor I thought the trial just begun
Due Process…ever heard of it? SMH
Damn, U done hung the nicca by the unicorn and the trail haven’t even started yet, there is always 3 sides to a story, her side, his side and the TRUTH…the TRUTH will come out and God knows the TRUTH and the TRUTH will come to the light!!!
The man has been found “not guilty” of the child molestation charges.
A little patience next time Gia30.