An Atlanta man is convicted of rape after he apparently pretended to be gay to lure his victim into his home so he could sexually assault her.
According to the New York Post, Taurence Gallagain,36, met the victim at a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Station weeks before the incident in September 2015. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said the victim was in a relationship with a woman when she met Gallagain:
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“They rode the same train and eventually exchanged numbers. The victim is a lesbian and has a female partner who she was in a relationship with when she met the defendant.”
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He told the victim that he was not interested in a sexual relationship with her due to being interested in men. Before the attack, the victim missed her last bus and Gallagain offered her a ride home so she didn’t have to walk to her home in Allen Hills. Gallagain told the victim he needed to stop home first and she assumed they were going to smoke marijuana. Unfortunately, he violently raped the victim and told her to comply or else he would call his friends to carry on the act.
The woman managed to escape from Gallagian’s home and ran three miles to her apartment. She described the incident to police but he claimed the incident was “consensual.” His sentencing date has not been set and Gallagian has a pending assault case in Fulton County.