An Atlanta man has been found guilty of raping a woman he met on his daily train commute. The woman is a lesbian and in a longterm relationship. To befriend her, the man – Taurence Callagain, 36 – pretended he was gay.
Callagain began talking to the woman in August 2015 after encountering her at a transit station in West Atlanta. After gaining her trust, they swapped phone numbers. He maintained that he was gay during this period and she believed their relationship was purely platonic.
On the evening of September 6, 2015, the woman said she’d missed her last connecting bus from the station. Her commute regularly involved two buses and a train ride. Callagain offered to drive her the one and a half miles to her home. He said he needed to stop off at his home first to pick up some marijuana.
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The woman accompanied him inside the house. She believed they were going to smoke some marijuana. Inside, he violently attacked her. A statement released by Fulton County District Attorney, Paul L Howard Jr., gave details of the crime.
Callagain strangled the woman and began to rape her. He told her that if she fought or screamed, “I will get my boys to come in and hold you down.”
She told police she could hear another male voice in the apartment and feared that what he said was true.
She was eventually able to escape his house. She ran the three miles home, then took herself to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment and called the police.
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The victim accurately described the interior of the defendant’s home, and her underwear was found in his hamper. He told police the sex had been consensual, but he was later arrested.
During his trial, he denied being gay or bisexual. He was convicted of rape earlier this week and will be sentenced at a later date.
“The brutality and meanness of this attack is disturbing,” District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. said in a statement to Oxygen.com.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
What an absolutely ignorant imbicile….
Virtually guaranteed he would be caught. Here’s hoping his ugly fat arse is viciously raped countless times in prison so he feels an iota of what he put that poor woman thru…..
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
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tf3.0
This is precisely why it is important for the law to force people to use the bathrooms, locker rooms, facilities which correspond to their genitalia….
Even if the .0006 out of 100 hundred people who are transgender would responsibly and rightly use the facility of their choice….
It leaves open the door to predators and creeps who would not.
The vast majority of women (51 out of 100 people) would prefer that men not be allowed in the same private facilities….
Why are we not more concerned for them? Is society not based on a principle of greatest good for greatest number?
charlietex
I don’t think you have the context right but anyway…
Your last paragraph is actually entirely wrong. The constitution guarantees the minority protection from the tyranny of the majority.
Miles Crown
Did you accidentally comment to another article that involved bathroom use? If not, you’re making no sense at all. This is the story of a man and woman who both ride the metro. He lies about being gay, she is gay. She trusted him but he abducted and raped her. See. Nothing about bathroom confusion is a factor in this story.
Felecia
Whatchya gonna do about lesbians like ME, genius…I am a female who likes being female, and is attracted to other women who also are as such. I use the women’s restroom of course; what’s stopping me from attacking another girl that I might be interested in, while in there….whether SHE likes it or not, lol…according to YOUR logic based on genitals only, both of us are right where the crazy right-wingers want us to be, so I’m laughing all the way to my NEXT victim in yet another public women’s room; thank you, GOP and the Bathroom Police, lol….I am not actually a rapist by any means. I simply wanted to point out that what the conservatives believe in when it comes to using public restrooms is still a total farce and might not ‘protect’ everyone OR anyone. And if you mistakenly think that women don’t rape other women, spend some time in a women’s prison, lol… yep, the bad ‘B’ movies about it are absolutely true, unfortunately. Now excuse me, I’m at the mall where plenty of nubile teenage girls hang out…gotta go use the restroom, lol….:)
Smith David
Like what man “pretends” to be gay? This is terrible. I hope this lady recovers. Now she will not trust any man.