Girl, 15, Testifies About a Gang Rape in Park

A 15-year-old San Diego girl who testified Monday that she was gang raped after she and her friends left a party and went to a park was the first witness in the trial of four men accused of being her attackers.

The eighth-grade student, who started crying when she spoke about the assault, said she was chased through Southcrest Park before being pushed to the ground and gang raped on the night of June 12.

“I was screaming and telling them to get off me,” she said. One of the men “had me by my throat. I told him I couldn’t breathe and he pushed harder.”

Three men and one juvenile face three counts each of rape-in-concert: Kevin Ray KcKee, 19; Doran Maurice Johnson, 19; Marquis Davis, 29, and Richard Catlin, 17, who has been ordered to stand trial as an adult.

The girl and her friends had met three of the defendants at the party and went to the park with them afterward to socialize, according to her testimony. At the park, at Alpha and 40th streets, a fourth man joined the group.

While at the park, she said, the men were drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. The girl said she voluntarily had sex with Davis earlier that night at the park.

“I didn’t want to do it at first, but then it just happened,” she said, referring to her sexual encounter with Davis.

After Deputy Dist. Atty. Gloria Michaels outlined her case for the jury, only one defense attorney gave an opening statement.

Davis’ attorney, Robert Gusky, told the panel that witnesses heard laughter as they saw the girl being chased by the men. Two other girls, ages 13 and 14, were also allegedly attacked in the park that night.

The jury is expected to receive the case and begin deliberations next week. In the meantime, KcKee is being held lieu of $200,000 bail and the other three are in custody on $100,000 bail each.