Women Testify Of Sex With Rapper As Young Girls

Coy Faces Up To Life In Prison

HOUSTON -- A jury that convicted rapper Carlos Coy of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl must now decide his punishment, which could range from five years' probation to life in prison.

A 14-year-old girl testified Tuesday that she had sex with the rap musician back in February, when Coy was out on bond in the for which case he was just convicted.

The girl told jurors that she got Coy's telephone number from a friend, and then called him.

"He asked what I looked like, so I told him," she said. "Then he asked how old I was. I said, '14.'"

The girl said that Coy and his friends then came to pick up her and her friend at 3 a.m., and then drove them directly to a motel.

"Me and Carlos were kissing, and he gave me hickeys all over my neck as we drove to the motel," she said.

She testified that Coy's friend then got them a room, and then Coy gave the driver $100 and told him to come back in an hour.

"He started taking off his clothes," she said. "He asked me to take mine off, so I did, and we had intercourse."

On Monday, a young woman who gave birth at 14 to Coy's son testified Monday that the rap musician offered to marry her, but her parents did not approve.

"My family didn't want me to have anything to do with him," she said of Coy, 31, known professionally as the "South Park Mexican." It was her first sexual relationship, she said, and the couple neither used nor discussed birth control. At the time, he was about 22 and she was 13.

Asked by prosecutor Lisa Andrews if Coy knew her age at the time, the woman said she wasn't sure. But she said he sometimes picked her up at the intermediate school where she attended seventh grade.

Although the woman sued Coy two years ago for $28,000 in back child support, she said Coy had provided for her financially and emotionally since their son was born. "If I needed something, he would get it. Whenever I needed something, he was there for me and my son."

The woman are two of eight claiming Coy sexually assaulted them. Four of the women testified Monday in the punishment phase of Coy's trial.

The jury convicted Coy on Saturday of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl at his southeast Houston home over Labor Day weekend. Jurors, who were sequestered Friday night in a hotel, deliberated about seven hours over two days before reaching the verdict.

Another woman testified Monday that she was 12 when she first had sex with Coy. Although she initially told police she was 14, she testified Monday that she changed her mind about the date after thinking about it.

In answer to a question by Coy's attorney, Chip Lewis, the woman said she felt no animosity toward Coy after they stopped seeing each other.

Also a girl testified that she had sex with Coy several times at age 14 at Dope House Records, the Center Street recording studio the rapper co-founded in 1995.

The girl that Coy was convicted of assaulting is now 10. She testified last week that at one point she didn't remember what happened and that she could have dreamed Coy touched her inappropriately. She later said the incident was real.

The girl told jurors she went to Coy's house to spend the night with his 6-year-old daughter. As the children were playing in an upstairs bedroom, Coy told them to watch a movie, the girl testified.

The girls and Coy were on the bed watching the movie, she said, when Coy put his hand under the blanket and rubbed her buttocks for about five minutes. Later, she said, Coy came into the bedroom where she was staying, sat on the bed and touched her genital area.

Coy's attorney, Chip Lewis, showed jurors portions of movies which the girl had watched, including: "Scream," "Scream 2" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

He also showed portions of "Scary Movie" and "Scary Movie Part 2," which Lewis said depicted the sexual acts the girl had alleged against his client.

"The principle is that a child who is not sure if (the alleged act) was a dream or reality has got to get the idea from somewhere," Lewis said. "It's fairly easy to draw an inference from the fact she was exposed to such violent, graphic sexual material."