Mendeeces is currently on trial for seven counts of sexual abuse of a 15 year old. Last week he was jailed for allegedly trafficking heroin & cocaine. Anyway Mandeecees’ accuser made some salacious, shocking and shake your head comments against him:
“Mendeecees made me feel comfortable. He would give me advice. He’d say ‘It’ll be okay between you and your mom’”
“I asked him to get me one [towel], and he did. Then he came into my room and suggested I let him masturbate on me, but I just laughed.”
The suggestions continued, she said, until she relented. She said Harris then gave her $15 or $20 “for lunch or maybe a ball game.”
But that wasn’t enough for him, the woman testified: Using an extremely private piece of information, he coerced her into providing oral sex.
“He told me he knew I had been raped when I was 8 years old and he found out from my mother. ‘Your mom doesn’t want you here’,” the woman said Harris told her before exposing himself.
She said she complied with his desire out of spite “to get back at my mom.”
“I felt betrayed by her. I didn’t tell her about it until I was 14, and it was something I didn’t want anyone to know.”
Similar favors were demanded – and provided — for “$15 or $20″ when she needed money for expenses, the woman testified. Eventually Harris enlisted her younger brothers by suggesting, when they asked him for money, to “talk to your sister. She knows what she has to do.”
The relationship ended, she said, when her mother took her cellphone to punish her for missing curfew and found a message on it from Harris.
“I heard them in their room yelling, I felt bad. She came in my room and she was livid. She told me to get out. She was just screaming to me to get out. I don’t remember if she said why.”
Mendeecees faces seven counts of illegal sex with the girl, including giving her money as an inducement, Maurice told the jury, outlining a “very skillful manipulation” of a young girl who “had had a bit of a rough upbringing.”
She also claims she didn’t know he was on television, or knew what he did for a living. She also alleges, that Mendeecees was in a relationship with her mother while he was with Yandy. The trial continues.
Defense attorney Brian Neary called the incidents fabrications.
“He never asked her for sexual favors and never, ever offered her money,” Neary said during opening arguments, adding that the teen was troubled and “had her own problems”.
Update:
“We call it taking candy from a baby,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice said.
“An adult like Mandeecees Harris can easily manipulate a child into doing things like performing oral sex – with words, with actions and later, with money,” Maurice said, as Harris, his girlfriend — fellow “Love & Hip Hop” cast member Yandy Smith and other family members and friends looked on.
The trial continues.
Jurors in New Jersey this afternoon found Love & Hip Hop star Mandeecees Harris NOT GULTY of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter by coercing her with money and other manipulation when was 15-years-old.
According to Cliffview Pilot reports:
Fellow “Love & Hip Hop” star Yandy Smith was among those in the courtroom who leapt to their feet and stomped, clapped, shouted and sobbed, raising arms skyward, as the verdicts to the eight individual charges were read just before 4 p.m.Mandeecees Harris is not out of the woods yet as he is facing drug charges in Rochester New York, over claims that he trafficked $2.5 million worth of heroin and with cocaine between 2005 and 2012. Harris also manages Vado and Webstar.
“I love you!” one of them shouted to the jurors, who returned the verdicts after a few hours of deliberations.
Sheriff’s officers then asked them to return to order.
When they wouldn’t, Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebbi directed the officer to escort the group out of her courtroom.
“The reality of celebrity life is, unfortunately, you sometimes walk around with a target on your back,” defense attorney Emil Lisboa told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “You don’t know if your friends are your friends or are just trying to get something out of you.”
Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice, in turn, said: “I respect the jury’s decision and the time and attention they gave this case.”
The alleged victim’s grandmother and aunt left as the verdicts were being read.
“It’s in God hands,” the grandmother, who is a pastor, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The truth will come out.”
She was among those who remained, despite the weather, as the day wore on. She prayed at times, as did Smith, who wept as she and several people who accompanied her throughout the trial huddled together.
He’d been free on bail pending the start of the trial, but he surrendered here last week after being named in a federal indictment out of Rochester, N.Y. that accuses him and two other men with trafficking $2.5 million worth of drugsNot all people found guilty are guilty and not all those who are found innocent are innocent. If the young lady lied, have mercy on her. But if she didn’t lie …
The government is expected to bring that case against him now. Arrangements are expected to be made to extradite him to New York early next week.
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